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Iron Angle: No friends in high places for Birmingham's coalition Feb 18 2011

It was almost possible to feel sorry for Mike Whitby, the Tory leader of Birmingham City Council, and his Liberal Democrat deputy, Paul Tilsley, at the cabinet meeting called to recommend a £320 million cuts package over the next four years.Read

Iron Angle: Cutting grants to volunteer groups not what Eric ordered Feb 04 2011

It is sometimes difficult to know whether to take Local Government Secretary Eric Pickles entirely seriously, given the incendiary nature of his demeanour.Read

Iron Angle: Hagley Road scheme puts Birmingham's planners in the spotlight Jan 27 2011

Outspoken Birmingham Tory councillor Len Clark is to apologise for an outburst during which he condemned the city’s Victorian Society as a bunch of “middle class idiots” out of touch with modern life.Read

Iron Angle: Birmingham preparing for its last supper Jan 21 2011

And so it’s come to this. Birmingham City Council’s financial position is so grave that consideration is being given to abandoning the dinner it lays on for judges on the West Midlands courts circuit. Read

Iron Angle: Councillors take bins dispute behind closed doors Jan 14 2011

It is becoming quite a common sight to see the doors of Birmingham’s Victorian Council House shut and locked because politicians and officials fear that they are about to become the victims of some spontaneous and violent display of public anger.Read

Iron Angle: Why is Birmingham's bins dispute such a mess? Jan 07 2011

A nightmare that has haunted leaders of Birmingham City Council’s Tory-Liberal Democrat coalition since June 2004 has turned from a scary dream into unremitting reality.Read

Iron Angle: It's Christmas and everyone's a winner Dec 31 2010

A carefully-selected judging panel embracing the very best of FIFA’s ethical approach to such matters has been burning the midnight oil cogitating over Iron Angle’s 2010 awards, and here are the results of their deliberations.Read

Iron Angle: Snowshoe on the other foot for city council coalition Dec 24 2010

Revenge, they say, is a dish best served cold and it has certainly been icy enough lately to appreciate the irony of Birmingham City Council’s latest spot of trouble with snowy conditions.Read

Iron Angle: Digby Jones waiting in the shadows? Dec 17 2010

While the Government becomes ever more ingenious in its attempts to make sure that Birmingham gets a directly elected mayor, the city as a whole is as underwhelmed as ever about the idea.Read

Iron Angle: Secrets of the Birmingham grit reserves Dec 10 2010

It’s been a tad icy lately, as the more observant among you will have noticed. And at times like this thoughts turn naturally to the matter of snow and roads in Birmingham, a far from happy relationship in the past.Read

Iron Angle: Birmingham's do-it-yourself plan to deal with cuts Dec 03 2010

There’s a certain amount of evangelical fervour behind the enthusiasm with which Birmingham City Council is delivering the Government’s cuts agenda.Read

Iron Angle: Not so simple for Sion Simon Nov 26 2010

You could hardly say that the prospect of Birmingham City Council being run by a Boris or Ken London-style directly elected mayor has galvanised either politicians or voters.Read

Iron Angle: Gradgrind and Hard Times Nov 19 2010

When appointed chief executive of Birmingham City Council in 2005, Stephen Hughes was rather cruelly dismissed as a boring number cruncher by many on the left of the political spectrum. One official described his new boss as Mr Gradgrind, after the headmaster in Dickens's Hard Times who liked facts to be beaten into children.Read

Iron Angle: What about the workers? Nov 12 2010

They haven’t yet hoisted the red flag over Birmingham Council House, but the latest attempt to avoid job cuts – or, at least, to buy a bit of time before the inevitable hits home – smacks more of socialism than something you might expect from a Conservative-led local authority.Read

Iron Angle: Bore comes off the ropes Nov 05 2010

Delusions of grandeur at Birmingham City Council have reached giddy new heights. Not only does the Tory leadership now routinely refer to Birmingham, apparently in all seriousness, as a “significant global player”, it has been decided that full council meetings shall begin with prayers – just as happens in the House of Commons.Read

Iron Angle: City council's stand and deliver policy Oct 29 2010

Desperate times at Birmingham City Council, where the latest money-saving wheeze is to write a vaguely threatening letter inviting hundreds of firms to demonstrate that we’re all in this together and help the local authority out of its financial mess by sacrificing their own profit margins.Read

Iron Angle: Unsocial housing plan Oct 22 2010

John Lines, Birmingham’s pugnacious Tory housing chief, was a picture of righteous indignation at the city council cabinet meeting as he railed against this newspaper for supposedly failing to give due recognition to his incredible achievements over the years.Read

Iron Angle: For whom the bell tolls Oct 15 2010

In 1939, Adolf Hitler issued the first in a series of decrees forcing Jews out of the comfortable houses they owned in Berlin and other cities, resettling them into stinking ghettoes from where they would be herded into cattle trucks and sent to the death camps of the Third Reich.Read

Iron Angle: Sharks circling the NEC after Whitby's slip Oct 08 2010

As Conservatives arrived at the International Convention Centre this week for their annual conference, they might have been impressed to discover that cash-rich private investors are beginning to circle around the impressive building in which they were meeting.Read

Iron Angle: And the city council band band plays on Oct 01 2010

Rather in the manner of the band playing on almost until the moment the Titanic slipped under the icy waves, Birmingham City Council’s cabinet is doing its best to pretend that everything is as normal.Read

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