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The perils of racial division

IT WAS a day to make you proud to be a Brummie.Read

A tale to lift your spirits

Amid all the doom and gloom sparked by this week’s riots, let me tell you a tale to lift your heart and raise your spirits.Read

England were cricket bullies

IT WAS Ian Bell’s hokey cokey moment.Read

No excuse for Amy's demise

There are many disturbing aspects about the death of Amy Winehouse, but over and above the tragic death of an immensely talented 27-year-old performer there was the reaction of her fans.Read

Don't muzzle newspapers

IT’S not only newspaper readers and politicians who were appalled by the behaviour of certain News of the World reporters. All the journalists I know are equally disgusted.Read

Blinging the wrong advice

JUST a few weeks after Birmingham hosted a Slut Walk, does anyone fancy joining me on a Bling Walk – an afternoon where men and women can proudly flash their gold medallions, bangles and earrings without fear of being mugged?Read

Pandering to the Nimbys

DURING my stint as a Watchdog reporter I worked at Television Centre, so naturally enough I moved to London.Read

It's time to give Brum more power

SIR Albert Bore didn’t merely declare his interest in becoming Birmingham’s first directly elected Mayor this week, he boldly “threw his hat into the ring”.Read

Spiral has got me in a spin

FORGIVE me if this week’s column seems a little bit sketchy.Read

The Stirrer

Banging drum for heavy metal

ABOUT three years ago in this column I banged a suitably loud drum for the creation of a Heavy Metal Museum in the West Midlands.Read

The Stirrer

Champion of free speech

If anyone knows about the pitfalls of intrusive “kiss and tell” journalism it’s John Hemming.Read

The Stirrer

Save the fairy tales for kids

IT’S only May, and I’ve been to three funerals already this year.Read

The Stirrer

Celebrities can't hide dirty secrets

SOCIAL networking websites like Facebook and Twitter are routinely mocked by those who haven’t joined them.Read

The Stirrer

Remember the Gaddafi victims

You could be forgiven for having missed it, what with the Royal Wedding and the slaying of Osama Bin Laden, but three innocent little children were killed the other day.Read

A new Tesco cannot hurt

THE letters page of the Birmingham Mail is always a lively place, and there’s nothing stirring up as much controversy at the moment as the prospect of a new Tesco store in Stirchley.Read

The Stirrer

A new Tesco cannot hurt

The letters page of the Birmingham Mail is always a lively place, and there’s nothing stirring up as much controversy at the moment as the prospect of a new Tesco store in Stirchley.Read

The Stirrer

University of Life is free...

Faced with the prospect of paying university fees of £9,000 per year, most prospective students will throw up their hands in horror – and dutifully stump the cash anyway.Read

The Stirrer

Sickened by The National

MAKE a note of the date – Saturday, April 9, 2011. That’s the day the British love affair with the Grand National came to an end. Or at the very least, mine did.Read

The Stirrer

The romance has vanished

SOME people count the start of summer from the sound of the first cuckoo, but for me it’s heralded by the wheezing noise of my chest, signalling the onset of hay fever. Cough! Splutter! Hack!Read

The romance has vanished

SOME people count the start of summer from the sound of the first cuckoo, but for me it’s heralded by the wheezing noise of my chest, signalling the onset of hay fever. Cough! Splutter! Hack!Read