What we’re good (and bad) at – a message to Birmingham City Council

No person, company, local council, or financial institution, even in ‘advanced’ post-industrial societies like ours, can be good at everything.

Birmingham only 9th worst!

Companies based in the London’s square mile have the worst online reputation, research has shown.

Still no alternative to the Private Finance Initiative

Alan Clawley explains how the PFI system defies economic logic.

Mad Dogs & Englishmen

Dave Woodhall wonders, not for the first time, if we can’t all be a bit more grown-up.

Delimiting the motorways

The Government, well Transport Minister Philip Hammond, has a cunning plan to get the country moving again by increasing the speed limit on motorways

Hodgson Past v Present

Terry Wills wasn’t too happy at the Hawthorns last Saturday.

Up in the Loft

Dave Woodhall reports on matters Astonian. Well, most of them.

Rings of Aluminium

“But it is just possible that what impresses the public about the new library is simply that it is very expensive”, reckons Alan Clawley

Not a Good One

Terry Wills looks back at the Albion’s week.

No Peace One Day for NATO

44 ‘strike sorties’ carried out in Libya on UN Day of Peace

Planning double standards

The Mushroom highlights conflict in existing and planned planning law.

Keeping the lights on (with apologies to Private Eye)

“No more pylons – no more windfarms”. Alan Clawley wonders where the leccy is going to be coming from.

Europa Dream – or Nightmare

Andy Munro considers Blues’ Euro-adventures.

The Hole of Birmingham

Alan Clawley detects a hole where others see an amphitheatre in Birmingham

Rough Justice?

Is society best served by locking away so many criminals? Dave Woodhall argues not.

So Far So Not Bad

Dave Woodhall debates the past week at Villa Park.

The Animals with Steve Cropper

The fates can conspire against anyone, even the greats, as Dave Woodhall witnessed.

The Battle for Stirchley

There’s a power struggle going on in Stirchley, the up-and-coming suburb of South Birmingham that many people are touting as ‘the new Kings Heath’

Potters Barred

Terry Wills on Albion’s week

Bring Back the King

When it comes to art Andy Munro knows what he likes.

The Birmingham Council myth machine

Here’s how the Council operates. First it decides what it wants to do. Then it fits the facts around its decision.

Euro Nights and Watford Gaps

It’s been a dramatic week for the Blues. Andy Munro looks back at it.

At Least We’re Not Arsenal

Dave Woodhall muses over the goings-on at Villa Park

Match Report – Manchester United 8 Arsenal 2

Steve Beauchampé reports on the latest outing for Arsenal and their loveable manager Arsene Whinger.

Murdoch Holed Up in Libya as Insurgents Surround His Fortress

TOP reporter Howard Elston gives us his eye witness account from Libya on a last ditch shoot-out with an autocratic dictator The sound of desperate gunfire, a bunker engulfed in flames and the panic of a defeated and crumbling army- that’s the setting as I crouch behind a stone wall hearing the whine of tracer bullets…

The Story So Far…

Terry Wills on progress at the Hawthorns.

No Bull

Dave Woodhall on last night’s visit of Hereford United to Villa Park.

Downhearted by the Riverside

Bluenosed Andy Munro is starting to worry a little after his team’s defeat at Middlesbrough.

What’s in a name?

The name ‘Small Heath’ is well-known wherever you go and a surprising number of Brummies will tell you that they were born and brought up there

Sign Here….

Dave Woodhall is enlisting your help.