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Graveyard jinks nothing new

What is there to do in a graveyard ? One possibility is to lie very quietly, and enjoy the daisies from above, or push them up from below. One can also, like countless poets – Gray and Shelley spring to mind – wander meditatively over the grass and muse upon mortality. Personally I tend to sneeze a lot: call it an allergy in a country churchyard. Read

Class action as PWC helps Birmingham school

A group of accountants from PricewaterhouseCoopers were invited to help out at a school, renovating run-down teaching areas. They jumped at the challenge as Emma James, associate at the Birmingham office, explains. Read

The art of surviving recession

With recession starting to bite Andy Michael MD of expanding IT business Quiss Technology has been there before and draws on experience to offer hope. Read

Penny saved is a penny earned

Bankers are going to have to do a lot to restore our confidence. There were we all believing that they were the success story of the age and could be relied on not just to look after our savings but to sit on boards of this, that and the other and run things properly – and now we learn they are gambling addicts in need of help. Read

The Post's Jonathan Walker looks at the cost of Gordon's big day out in Birmingham

£62,000 for Gordon’s day out in Brum Read

Walk through our city’s Russian past

Last week I had the decidedly chilly privilege of showing a group of university lecturers from Moscow around our city. The irony that, on this particular day, a walk around historic Moscow would have been positively sultry compared to a trek through Birmingham did not escape them. They took photos of the snow. Read

Britain needs a new banking model

We need new model Read

Ten years on from the Winterval row

Michael Chubb, the man behind Birmingham’s much-criticised Winterval festival, dismisses claims that it was an attempt to abolish Christmas. Read

The struggle continues for Birmingham's Bangladeshis

Trident Housing Group and Human City Institute uncover deep disadvantage in Birmingham’s Bangladeshi community. Trident’s chief executive John Morris outlines these challenges. Read

City should be working to its own agenda

Birmingham’s aspirations should no longer be limited by the forces of the capital. Read

Building bridges in the construction industry

The West Midlands construction industry will benefit from an agreement to provide agreed standards, Paul Grove reports. Read

It'll get interesting when the Americans start voting

M y political boredom threshold is probably higher than most of yours, but I confess: I’m bored with the American election. Read

A new approach needed for Islamic finance

Dr Terry Lacey, an economics writer based in Indonesia, explains some of the implications of the financial crisis for the Muslim world. Read

Learning the lingo for the new terms of credit

Until the recent crisis nobody had ever heard of the expressions ‘credit crunch’ and ‘toxic debt.’ Alex Tulloch looks at the jargon coined for a world in financial turmoil. Read

John Bright: A true working class hero

Conservative MP Bill Cash looks back on a historic speech made 150 years ago by John Bright, the greatest Parliamentary reformer of his time. Read

Birmingham firms say hello to digital

As Birmingham hosts the Midlands' first digital festival Jonnie Turpie, Hello Digital vice chairman, looks at how the region’s creative industries are embracing digital. Read

How to organise your own music festival

For anyone who has stared down the long and winding road of an Arts Council Grant application form, or who has been brave enough to apply for project funding from any public body you will know that getting public sector money to make your event happen can often be the most exhausting part of the process. It may be seen by some as ‘just a hand out’ but you have to work for it. Read

Business is our lifeblood

Conservative leader David Cameron says the Government is more concerned with talking jargon than helping struggling small businesses. Read

£500m goes a long way in transport

Jerry Blackett, chief executive of Birmingham Chamber of Commerce and Industry, examines how Accelerated Development Zones might bring a £500 million boost to rail, tram and bus services. Read

Gemini's glorious part in Post history draws to a close

For more than 40 years he’s chronicled events big and small, pricking more than a few egos along the way with the caustic wit of his devilishly sharp pen. Read