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Iron Angle: What was the point of the council's Papal feast? Sep 24 2010

It’s been difficult to find anyone who will actually admit to having attended Birmingham City Council’s Papal banquet last Saturday. Perhaps those that wined and dined at taxpayers’ expense, including we are told several very important Catholic dignitaries, have their own reasons for pursuing a silent vigil.Read

Iron Angle: An offer they can’t refuse at the city council Sep 18 2010

The supreme confidence, tinged with more than a touch of arrogance, of those running Birmingham City Council never fails to amaze. Read

Iron Angle: Birmingham City Council's doom-mongers might not be bluffing Sep 10 2010

No show at this week’s Birmingham City Council meeting from chief executive Stephen Hughes. Probably enjoying a well-earned break at his barn conversion in France, lying down in a darkened room perhaps.Read

Iron Angle: Nothing is set in stone Sep 03 2010

Back from a two-week break in Cornwall – it’s the new Tuscany without the sunshine, or the food – to discover that Birmingham City Council’s accountancy wizard Randal Brew had issued a statement about “the challenge we face”.Read

Iron Angle: Summer term report for Birmingham's leading councillors Aug 20 2010

It’s the summer holidays at the Birmingham City Council Academy of Local Government (excellence rating delayed, again). How, Iron Angle wonders, might chief executive Stephen Hughes sum up the performance of councillors in an end of the academic year report?Read

Iron Angle: Another fine mess Aug 13 2010

Business leaders in Birmingham and the Black Country are doing their very best to put a positive spin on the difficulties the region is experiencing in responding to a government invitation to set up Local Enterprise Partnerships.Read

Iron Angle: Mayoral poll – eventually Aug 06 2010

Oh, to have been a fly on the wall in the office of city council leader Mike Whitby when it finally dawned on his two youthful assistants, the Andrews Sisters (cabinet officers Andrew Dunbar and Andrew Holdsworth), that the Government is indeed serious about requiring Birmingham to have an elected mayor in 2012.Read

Iron Angle: Khyra Ishaq is the sad legacy of council's failure Jul 30 2010

A Serious Case Review setting out the circumstances behind Khyra’s death tracks in chilling detail the failings of the children’s social care unit and of the Education Welfare ServiceRead

Iron Angle: Sad legacy of failure Jul 30 2010

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Iron Angle: Power games in Birmingham just like Dad's Army Jul 23 2010

One of the most amusing sub-plots of the long-running television comedy series Dad’s Army involves the absurd pomposity and egotism displayed by almost everyone in any position of power or influence at the fictional south coast town of Walmington-on-Sea.Read

Iron Angle: Little sleep for the weary Jul 16 2010

It would be fair to describe this week’s Birmingham City Council cabinet meeting as a pretty downbeat affair, with the weight of unpopular spending decisions to come hanging over senior figures in the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition.Read

Iron Angle: Khyra Ishaq case review won't be comfortable reading for council Jul 08 2010

The Serious Case Review into the harrowing death of Khyra Ishaq is likely to be one of the most heavily scrutinised public documents prior to publication of its kind. Read

Iron Angle: Birmingham cabinet talks rubbish Jul 02 2010

Councillors were in a particularly jovial mood at the first Birmingham City Council cabinet meeting for seven weeks, not that they really had anything to smile about. Perhaps it was gallows humour.Read

Iron Angle: The gathering storm for Birmingham's Tories and Lib Dems Jun 24 2010

It won’t have gone down as one of the most earth shattering events of recent years, but the political anoraks among us could not help noticing last week that Labour took control of Hastings Council in Sussex following a by-election.Read

Iron Angle: Spy camera row proves need for a police commissioner Jun 18 2010

Some of us are old enough to remember the days when chief constables were required to present themselves four times a year to meetings of local councils.Read

Iron Angle: City council cancels meeting through lack of interest Jun 11 2010

This week’s planned meeting of the Birmingham City Council cabinet was cancelled due to the lack of anything interesting to discuss or decide.Read

Iron Angle: Green belt issues always get politicians in a spin Jun 04 2010

New Local Government Secretary Eric Pickles lost no time in abandoning Labour’s attempts to force local councils to plan for a record number of new housing over the next 16 years.Read

Iron Angle: Whitby sends for Winston in reshuffle May 28 2010

Birmingham Tory councillors Les Lawrence and Len Clark put on a passable impression of a Cameron-Clegg love-in at the vulnerable children scrutiny committee, although without the jokes obviously. Read

Iron Angle: No money, little hope May 21 2010

Of course Liam Byrne was not joking when he helpfully left a note to David Laws, his successor as Chief Secretary to the Treasury, pointing out that Britain is skint.Read

Iron Angle: Arise, Sir Albert, the Great Survivor May 14 2010

The latest announcement from the Department of Meaningless but Nonetheless Interesting Statistics: Sir Albert Bore has led Labour in opposition for more years than he was leader of Birmingham City Council.Read

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