News North South Central Business Comment Features Arts & culture Music Food & drink Events Sport Aston Villa Birmingham City Politicians City Council Social Media Police Traffic Weather
Birmingham blog comment
- Coventry University hosts Baroness Hussein-Ece’s lecture on peace in Cyprus
19 May 12
Baroness Hussein-Ece will be giving a free public lecture on the controversial topic of peace in Cyprus - Situation vacant
19 May 12
Christopher Steven Grayling MP is Minister of State at the Department of Work and Pensions. Earlier this week, the Department of Work and Pensions told a registered deaf, blind man who requires 24 hour care and needs to be fed through a tube that he is fit for work. John Kerr`s DLA benefit entitlement... - Coproduction, the Surface Economy and ‘Welfare Society’
18 May 12
We tend to think of coproduction in relation to public services. In the UK, in particular, recent interest in the potential of coproduction on the part of policy-makers and public service agencies is focused through the prism of public spending cuts and the government’s ‘Big Society’ idea. Big Society... - Sport and culture to “take centre stage” under Labour
18 May 12
Birmingham’s new city council leadership has hit back at claims that a… - I opposed Equal Marriage no longer
18 May 12
Among the two years of Coalition government that Britain has been subjected to there has been little to smile about. There is no need to list the ‘omnishambles’ here, even those who have better things to do with their time than check the tweetings of the political geekery are well versed in just how... - West Midlands Police set to continue with private partnership plans despite delay
18 May 12
West Midlands Police may have delayed plans to agree a "business partnership" with the private sector - what critics called privatisation - but it certainly hasn't abandoned them. Trade Union Unite has issued a statement welcoming the delay, saying: "Police privatisation is on hold but it's absolutely... - Imitation is the greatest form of flattery
18 May 12
I noticed a while back that there is a Liberal Democrat parliamentary researcher who runs a website called politicalhack.org (clearly far too much time on his hands). I've had other things to think about - like winning elections. What I didn't realise until today was that it was run by one Martin Shapland... - Lasan chief feasts on top award at BYPY
18 May 12ONE of Birmingham’s leading restaurateurs has won the coveted title of Birmingham… - Climate Jobs Caravan 15th May 2012- videos
18 May 12
Despite the bad weather, the Climate Jobs Caravan set up in Northfield (with the help of our friends from the Ecocentre ) and later at St Philips Cathedral in Birmingham. The public meeting that evening attracted a diverse audience and heard an interesting and wide ranging discussion. Videos of the... - Maybe today, maybe tomorrow
18 May 12
Until now, it was beyond imagination that police officers should take to the streets to protest against government cuts. Mind you, they were protesting against government cuts to the police service. Other protesters against government cuts have been photographed as suspected terrorists, kettled and... - Coproduction & the Core Economy
17 May 12
Coproduction is… ‘the process by which inputs used to produce a good or service are contributed by individuals who are not ‘in’ the same organisation’. This is the definition given by the leading expert in what economists call ‘common pool resources’ and 2009 Nobel economics laureate Elinor Ostrom... - Verdict on Labour’s return – Interesting Cabinet, pity about Scrutiny
17 May 12Forget all the ‘Twitter leaks probe outrage’ stuff about who leaked what… - Child catcher
17 May 12
Ofsted have decided that 450,000 British school children need to disappear off the Special Educational Needs Register because they are too expensive to maintain. I do not think that this government can sink any lower. I might be wrong... - Could regional banking help to develop flourishing regional economies?
16 May 12
Regional economic strategy is now being taken more seriously. Localise West Midland’s Andrew Lydon has been examining the collection of regional prosperity and inflation indices in this and other countries for some time and has corresponded with MPs and government departments on the subject.18 months... - Business Birmingham comment on unemployment figures
16 May 12Neil Rami, Chief Executive of Marketing Birmingham commented on today’s announcement that unemployment in the West Midlands fell by 19,000 in the last quarter: - Jonathan Walker: Bard 'was a natural Tory'
15 May 12
DID you know Shakespeare supported David Cameron? - New Birmingham City Council Cabinet announced
15 May 12Birmingham Council Leader Elect Sir Albert Bore has announced his cabinet to colleagues in the city council Labour group. The nominations will be put before the City Council AGM on 22nd May when Labour formally takes office. - As a matter of fact, it's all dark
15 May 12
Get out of Europe now, while you still can. That should be the advice for business in the Black Country. If you export to the Eurozone, start looking for new markets before it’s too late and if you’ve got money tied up in euros, rescue it now. And if you’re going to the Eurozone for your summer holiday... - Birmingham City Council Cabinet Composition
15 May 12
Announced on 14 May 2012, this is the Cabinet that will form the Executive of the Council agreed by members of the Labour group of councillors. The chairs of District Committees will also serve as non-Cabinet members of the Executive. Following the elections on May 3, Labour will chair 7 district... - Central Birmingham March 1981, through windscreen of Ford Escort
15 May 12
- Updated yet AGAIN - The David Cameron Confidence Indicator
15 May 12
David Cameron has full confidence in.... Caroline Spelman Full confidence declared 28 June 2008 Replaced as Conservative Chairman 19 January 2009 Jeremy Hunt Full confidence declared 28 June 2010 Full confidence declared again 24 April 2012 Still in office as Culture Secretary at time of going to press... - Brummies
14 May 12From an old car-boot VHS: an hour in the eighties with Carl Chinn and Malcolm Stent talking about what Brummies are… - UK in recession – but the highest interest rates in Europe
14 May 12
The UK has now gone into recession, with the national income having shrunk for 2 successive quarters. Classical economics has always suggested that an important part of fostering growth in such circumstances is for interest rates to be reduced. Our Bank of England have again told us that their policy... - Advanced Technology in Ancient Times
13 May 12
- A 2,200 year-old computer
13 May 12 - ‘It’s the newspapers I can’t stand’
12 May 12
- Tricky: The PM has breached the ministerial code.
11 May 12
Sir Jeremy Heywood Cabinet Secretary Cabinet Office 70 Whitehall London SW1A 2AS 11 May 2012 Dear Mr Heywood, MEETINGS BETWEEN THE PRIME MINISTER, MEDIA PROPRIETORS, EDITORS AND SENIOR EXECUTIVES It was reported by Christopher Hope in The Telegraph on 9 May 2012 that the Prime Minister, David Cameron...
Discussion Forums
- Reply to Kings Norton
- Reply to Kings Norton
- Reply to A Birmingham Flickr Directory
- New Photography club looking for members
- Reply to A Birmingham Flickr Directory
- Reply to A Birmingham Flickr Directory
- Kings Norton
- Reply to Hey guys a small proposition.
- Reply to Hey guys a small proposition.
- Hey guys a small proposition.