In early December, West Midlands Police and Birmingham City Council mounted a well-publicised operation against private hire drivers muscling in on the black cab trade.Read
GEORGE Orwell’s classic novel 1984 wasn’t just a work of fiction – it was also a stark warning about the emergence of a surveillance society where civil liberties could be plundered from the people in the name of ensuring their safety.Read
I don’t know about you, but as a freelance journalist my “annual bonus” is getting hired to write this column for another year – and very grateful I am, too.Read
After recently slating the Saturday night parade of talentless TV talent shows, I decided to give the box one more chance last weekend by tuning into the X Factor final.Read
IRELAND fought a long and bloody battle for independence from Britain, so how ironic that it’s now meekly surrendered sovereignty to a bunch of international bankers and Brussels bureaucrats.Read
IT’S Anne Widdecombe on Strictly followed by Cheryl and the gang on X Factor, so we’ll all be gearing up for a big night of viewing this Saturday, won’t we?Read
IT MIGHT have felt like George Osborne was slashing and burning every corner of the welfare state last week, but there’s one tiny outpost of wasteful government spending he forgot.Read
THOSE wild men of rock, Guns n’ Roses, have been showing off their rebellious streak again this week – by, er, turning up 75 minutes late for a gig at the LG Arena.Read
I thought I’d been transported back a couple of decades when I read that Birmingham’s Broad Street was being compared with the red light district in Hamburg.Read
GEORGE Michael’s measly sentence for crashing his Range Rover under the influence of drugs has been quickly condemned as proof that there’s one law for celebrities, another law for the rest of us.Read
