Ready or not: What Brum is doing for the refugee crisis
Even the shyest Tory has been moved to action over the refugee crisis this week leaving only David Cameron—who seemingly still has one eye on the dwindling UKIP surge—badly out of step with a country...
View ArticleIn Grand Central Station I had to sit down in Pret
I know people who live in other cities take this sort of shit for granted, but Nu-New Street is a very nice railway station (with the Brum-obligatory shop on top). It needs a clock – call me...
View ArticleBirmingham and leadership: A challenge to democracy
Birmingham is to have a new leader. And we don’t get to vote. No-one does, apart from the outgoing leader and 77 other Labour councillors. The leader of Birmingham City Council is potentially the third...
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So you’d like a say in who leads Birmingham City Council?
Want to feel enfranchised? Like you have some influence in the direction of your city? Then you need to have a say in who leads your local council. How to get that? Well you need our guide. Of...
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Labour councillors: Stop gagging Brum
Despite calls in the media, old and new, and noises from some quarters (not as many as we’ve got, like but…) it’s being reported that the Labour group on Birmingham City Council is actively against...
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In Labour
With the announcement of a West Midlands mayor just a day or so before, this hustings started to feel a little bit like bald men fighting over a comb. But that’s not true; one of the candidates is a...
View ArticleMeet the new Bore, same as the old Bore
I have an obsessive nature – not addictive, thank god – but definitely obsessive. Whenever I am reminded of 1976 classic Carrie the voices echo about my brain for days. I have spent hours researching...
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What time and when is our new SEO strategy going to pay dividends with...
Friend of the show Dave Harte used to do a bit about how the most popular posts on his hyperlocal website was called “When are the supermarkets open over Christmas?”. This is the sort of ‘content’...
View ArticleWe’re the biggest outside London, inside London it’s too dark to read
A letter we sent to the Birmingham Post the other day, do they still have ‘letters to the editor’ in papers these days? Dear Sir, I think we all agree that there are times when Birmingham should blow...
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Too shy Tory, hush hush
Apologies to Conservative (yes, who knew?) mayoral candidate Andy ‘Mr John Lewises’ Street for this image macro. In a previous version we originally suggested the Tories had cut £.13bn from councils...
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Do they know it’s bin day? We release charity single in support of bin strikers
Last bin day, we went out to see if the bags had been collected outside PC towers and instead found a package addressed to us. It contained the master tape for a song with more hooks than we have...
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Danny Smith: Non-essential
Something something largest unsafe reopening of a Primark in Europe. We sent Danny Smith to die for capitalism. Her voice is mournful, an acapella lament closer to a wail than a dirge. I don’t speak...
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Revealed! Brum’s commonwealth games mascot
We’ve obtained a leaked internal email showing early designs and concepts for the Birmingham Commonwealth Games mascot. No bull. To: Andy.Street@WMCA.gov From: Andre.De.Jong@zaphiks.in Dressing up for...
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Birmingham: we invented Christmas – our history with the German Market
Most of our notions of modern Christmas come from the Victorian author Charles Dickens, who being the rock star of his time toured the country reading from ‘A Christmas Carol’. Turning a then...
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Too Much Monkey Business: The Return of Kong
Giant monsters are always analogies. Godzilla, in early incarnations at least, is agreed to be a 30 storeys high metaphor for Japan’s terror of the atomic age. Not just the destruction it could cause,...
View ArticleLeaked email reveals plans for Commonwealth Games opening ceremony
What can we expect of Birmingham’s Commonwealth Games opening ceremony? Sir Albert Bore on an open topped 11A? Roy Wood riding Brum the little car? Not wanting to spoil the surprise but we’ve got a...
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