Review: Sergeant Pepper in King’s Heath

It was fifty years ago today, trumpets Richard Lutz, as he re-lives that great album.

Haircut and other stories

Richard Lutz wrestles with the wreckage of another week.

Spain’s safe home on the Severn

Michael East heads west to be amazed by a secret cache of Iberian masterpieces .

A trillion reasons to query your candidate

There’s a politician at the door. Here’s what to do next, advises Will Mapplebeck

Drop dead letter to Sir Howard Elston

A warning from our social care correspondent.

Screengrab: Mitch, weed and the hard desert

 Richard Lutz picks the best movie on TV this week

Vice Versa at Stratford: “madcap but not sharp enough…”

Richard Lutz takes his pew for a new comedy by the Royal Shakespeare Company.

Finger painting and other tales

Richard Lutz reviews his seven days…this week in and out of museums. 

The Elston Report: Trump trip triggers trouble

Sir Howard Elston, our Mid East correspondent, outlines what will happen when Doughball Trump lands in Saudi Arabia for his first summit.

Tommy: relentless songs that run out of puff

Richard Lutz takes his pew for the anthemic play about a kid who plays a mean pinball.

Where history sleeps

Richard Lutz gets lost in Shakespeare country.

Skin deep and forever young (ish)

Cosmetics, creams and powders. Sheilagh Matheson experiments to discover what works and what doesn’t.

Fightin’ words

Will Mapplebeck is on the election trail to boredom.

The past is another country but some things never change

Richard Lutz wanders through lost school hallways at his fiftieth class reunion

The Mayoral Race: Hustings Heaven

Richard Lutz joins the throng to listen to the six candidates for West Midlands mayor.

Letting Jeremy be Jeremy might be a bad idea

Will Mapplebeck wonders aloud about Jezza and his inability to find the killer comment.

Ask Howard: He answers the big questions

More hard-hitting answers from the Man in the Know.

Antony and Cleopatra at Stratford: Electric performance hampered by plodding plot

Richard Lutz takes his pew for the classic Shakespeare tragedy about love and lust when youth leaves the stage.

I Want, I Want: “a gallery of tomorrow’s dreams…”

Richard Lutz enters the digital world of new tech artists.

Gini out of the bottle

Will Mapplebeck reports on why inequality has levelled out – despite what the Left says.

Root problems and other tales

Richard Lutz painstakingly looks back in anguish at the week that was and a spring that will be.

Sir Howard’s Big Bumper Quiz Bonanza

He’ll answer your most tricky questions.

The banks that like to say theft- chapter 46

Richard Lutz on the Treasury and an industry fined £75 billion for fraud and stealing from its customers.

CBSO Spring Classics: “..a basket of favourites…”

Richard Lutz takes his pew for a Friday night that heralds a new season.

Screengrab: A gamine English star, a prickly Scot and Skelton Knaggs

Richard Lutz points the finger at a quartet of movies that will fill your crystal screen this week.

Now, let’s hold on for a minute

Richard Lutz warns that the Westminster attack should not start a rush to judgement.

Ballad of The Arousal Cafe – and other tales

Richard Lutz combs the smoking ruins of another seven days.

The strange state of a post-Scotland UK

Will Mapplebeck looks at a disunited Kingdom.

MK Ultra: “ A one way paranoid dance to the world of The Illuminati…”

Richard Lutz gets led into a bizarre twilight of half baked conspiracy theories at The Birmingham Rep that include Walt Disney, Justin Bieber and the CIA. Yes, really…

False truth crossing and other tales

Richard Lutz meanders through another miasmic week