IN TROUBLED times we need big hopes and bright dreams, and visions don’t come more technicolour than Jonathan Stuart Brown’s bold plan to make the West Midlands the UK’s movie capital.Read
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
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
THE judge who complained a few years ago that voting fraud made Birmingham look like a banana republic was obviously being unfair – to banana republics!Read
AFTER three men were convicted of a terrorist plot this week that would have outdone 9/11 in its murderous scale, few people would deny that Islamic extremism remains a threat to Britain.Read
AFTER the row about expenses, politicians have become such a discredited species that an old joke about lawyers has now been transferred to the Palace of Varieties at Westminster.Read
SENIOR Birmingham MPs and councillors have pledged their support to a campaign I launched earlier this week on my Stirrer website to celebrate Birmingham’s great multicultural heritage.Read
EVERY reader will have been appalled by the death of taxi driver Mohammed Arshad last week, but it hit me particularly hard because I regularly use the Kings Norton cab firm he worked for.Read
I NEVER had Gordon Brown marked down as a New Romantic, but I reckon the Prime Minister will be breaking open the eyeliner and donning a frilly shirt any day now.Read
FRANCE’S President Sarkozy was playing to a domestic audience when he called for a ban on the Muslim burqa – but I wouldn’t mind betting he picked up plenty of support on this side of the Channel, too.Read
FRANCE’S President Sarkozy was playing to a domestic audience when he called for a ban on the Muslim burqa – but I wouldn’t mind betting he picked up plenty of support on this side of the Channel, too.Read
