BIRMINGHAM MP Andrew Mitchell is well-placed to point an accusing finger at the “woefully inadequate” global reaction to the Pakistan floods crisis.Read
ON SUNDAY I was privileged to chair the public meeting where a senior police officer said sorry for botching the consultation over a new generation of CCTV cameras planned for inner city Birmingham.Read
This week, barely audible above the World Cup vuvuzelas and the “hear, hears” of the budget, news slipped out that another soldier had died at Birmingham’s QE hospital.Read
IMAGINE if during The Troubles of the 70s and 80s, a six-ship flotilla of foreign do-gooders had moored off the Irish Sea with the intention of delivering “aid” to the poor benighted Catholics of Belfast.Read
In the past few days, the Government has made more cuts than Edward Scissorhands at a hairy bikers’ convention – and we can be certain there’ll be more snip, snip, snipping in the months ahead.Read
LORD Triesman may have been a philandering old fool or the innocent victim of a tabloid sting but one thing’s for certain – the scandal around his resignation mustn’t be allowed to damage England’s World Cup bid.Read
FOR years, voters have turned out at election time to chose their favoured government and a victor usually emerges in short order – either Labour or Conservative.Read
THE ugly face of bigotry reared into public view again this week as villagers in Meriden circled the wagons – or in their case 4x4s – to protect their local area from an invasion by travellers.Read
HARD-pressed Birmingham taxpayers could be forced to shell out a whopping £3 billion before the city council finally meets its obligations under equal pay laws.Read
WHATEVER happened to the British stiff upper lip? Judging by our reaction to the Icelandic volcano story, it’s gone so limp I doubt whether even Viagra can help.Read
MORE than a week into the election campaign and my hunch is that all but the most hardened party hacks are still undecided who to support – or whether to even to vote at all.Read
