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Maureen Messent

Maureen Messent

Suicide for a debt? Think of your child

  • Drama queen suffers too much for her art
  • Don't let the bereaved go through hell
  • Perils of thinking in black and white!
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Paul Fulford

Paul Fulford

You'd be mad to live in Birmingham instead of London...or would you?

  • If Her Maj is hard up what hope for the rest of us?
  • How banter can turn to bullying...and worse
  • Why do bugs pick on men?
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Birmingham City FC Blog

Colin Tattum

Window pain

Will further sales push Blues down towards the Championship also-rans? After striving so hard to make the play-off zone, and enthralling in Europe along the way, is everything about to go to waste? That's the natural reaction after Jean Beausejour became the 12th player with a Carling Cup winner's medal on his mantle piece to leave St Andrew's, either by transfer, release or loan. Read

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The Stirrer

The Stirrer

The perils of racial division

  • A tale to lift your spirits
  • England were cricket bullies
  • No excuse for Amy's demise
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Jon Walker

Jon Walker

Tough workout on benefits cap

  • Election bonanza comes at a cost
  • Make EU talks transparent
  • MP told off for seeing red
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Jobs blog

Mike Olley

Mike Olley

The markets need to stay

  • Dishonesty at new level
  • Give public a real say
  • Tories sapped UK's energy
  • More from Mike Olley

Faiths In Our City

Indebted to those who died for us

  • Celebrating the special vibrancy of marriage
  • Buddhist message: Make peace and goodwill last all year round
  • Rabbi Yossi Jacobs: Parenting is a joint effort
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Is it just me?

isitjustme

And the weather in 2095 will be cloudy with a little drizzle

When it was pointed out that the new Climate Risk Assessment Report is based on computer models that are built on theories, assumptions and in many cases false or faulty information - they are in fact unreliable at best and at worst completely wrong - some spokesman for the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs came up with the helpful suggestion that plans based on flawed models was better than having no plans at all. Read

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