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Johnson picking a futile drugs fight

WAS Home Secretary Alan Johnson on the wacky baccy when he picked a fight with his chief drugs adviser?Read

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Lights, camera, Brum?

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

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Should we revive death penalty debate?

BROADCASTER Ludovic Kennedy who died this week was a great campaigning journalist.Read

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Caught-out Jacqui should quit immediately

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

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

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Heads must roll in care scandal

THIS week’s devastating report into Birmingham’s children’s services department pulls no punches.Read

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Roman must face music

OSCAR-winning director Roman Polanski has always been a great fantasist.Read

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Postal voting system’s just bananas

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

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Our freedom to enjoy life like Floyd

KEITH Floyd’s premature death at the age of 65 will doubtless be taken as further evidence of the dangers of a boozy lifestyle.Read

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Protesters should come in peace

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

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Curious case of a terrorist set free

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

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Landlords must take blame for bad boozers

THE great British boozer is apparently in terminal decline with 52 pubs closing every day.Read

There’s an alternative to confrontation

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

Why must we tolerate louts’ march?

THIS weekend a self-confessed group of ex-football “casuals” are heading into Birmingham for a protest against Islamic extremism.Read

Taxi drivers deserve proper protection

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

Dave’s fighting a losing battle

DAVID Cameron obviously lacks a sense of irony.Read

School row mum’s no criminal

WHEN Mrinal Patel tried getting her five-year-old son into a decent school recently, she was hauled before the courts.Read

Gordon revisits the 80s for ‘solutions’

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

What’s worse? The burqa or our Barbie doll culture?

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

What's worse? The burka or our Barbie doll culture?

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