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Paul Fulford

Paul Fulford

Quality 'fast' food is on right track

AS YOU whizz through the countryside by train, you’ll see rolling fields swaying with crops or inhabited by grazing animals – testimony to the wealth of high quality food that’s produced in this country.Read

Paul Fulford

Information, but not as I know it!

CONSPIRACY theories are a load of old nonsense, probably put around by the Lizard People to divert us from the indisputable fact that they assassinated President Kennedy because he was about to blow the whistle on their plan to smuggle Elvis to live on the Moon with Michael Jackson.Read

Maureen Messent: A replacement BNP could be much worse

WELL, that should be it. With Nick Griffin having stumbled and dissembled before nine million viewers, the BNP will disappear.Read

Restaurant Review: Spice Merchant, Kings heath

AN acquaintance of mine refuses to eat lamb for no other reason than the creatures are so cuddly and cute.Read

Paul Fulford

Far right rule would deny us chance to grow

PAY no attention to the compassion and care that Mary Seacole gave to Britain’s gravely wounded troops in the Crimea.Read

Time to remember the clocks go back

DON’T forget to put the clocks back an hour tonight. British Summer Time officially ends at 2am tomorrow.Read

Time to remember the clocks go back

DON’T forget to put the clocks back an hour tonight. British Summer Time officially ends at 2am tomorrow.Read

Restaurant review: Akbar's in Edgbaston

A DREAD descended on me as I contemplated a meal at the newly-opened Akbar’s restaurant in Edgbaston.Read

Unhurried way is key to flavour of Caribbean cuisine

POPPING out for an Indian meal is commonplace. Likewise Chinese, Thai and Italian restaurants attract diners from the wider community.Read

Getting the taste for odd flavours

HANDS up if you’ve not sniggered at a connoisseur waxing lyrical about all sorts of obscure aromas and flavours said to lurk in the drink they’re sniffing, sipping and swirling extravagantly.Read

Paul Fulford

Snap judgements that can harm us all

THE tatty hatchback that pulled up alongside me as I walked past the Bull Ring open market towards my bus stop looked dodgy.Read

Restaurant Review: Bank, 4 Brindley Place, Birmingham. 0121 633 4466

THERE aren’t many importations from America that I welcome.Read

Caught-out Jacqui Smith should quit now

WHEN Villa supporting ex-teacher Jacqui Smith became the first female Home Secretary 12 months ago, she had no shortage of well-wishers – especially here in the West Midlands.Read

Recipes for vegetarian feasts

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Rabbi Yossi Jacobs: Parenting is a joint effort

EACH week in Synagogue we read one portion of Scripture completing the entire cycle once a year.Read

Restaurant Review: Byzantium, 11 York Road, Kings Heath, Birmingham. 0121 444 5444.

FLATBREAD, you might think, is a simple thing unlikely to hit any great heights.Read

Nick Crudgington back with new venture at Anderson's just months after calling in the liquidators at the Bucklemaker

BIRMINGHAM restaurateur Nick Crudgington is back in business, just months after the collapse of his landmark city centre venue.Read

Paul Fulford

Kids today need a healthy fear of authority

THEY weren’t bad lads, the kids I hung around with when I was a bored teenager in Pype Hayes. Just ordinary working class boys with little to capture their imagination or fill their time.Read

Restaurant Review: Mount Fuji, Bullring, birmingham. 0121 633 9853.

INVARIABLY, I follow a visit to a Japanese restaurant with a quick trawl of the internet to discover exactly what I’ve eaten.Read

Raise A Glass: Cocktail making in Birmingham

THERE are not many people who haven’t watched the movie Cocktail and thought I wish I could shake it as well as Tom Cruise.Read

Author Profile

Paul Fulford is Features Editor and restaurant critic of the Birmingham Mail. He previously worked on the paper's news and sports desks.