If the joy of Christmas is being spoilt by miserable teenagers who haven’t yet had an offer of a university place, you may be interested to know that UCAS (the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service) is undertaking a consultation.Read
Having gone on record as saying I would wait until the last minute to buy the scruffiest, cheapest Christmas tree, I exercised my unilateral opt-out – and impulse-bought a prime stick of greenery.Read
Last week’s Birmingham Post carried a couple of letters on the pros and cons of the German Market, and its impact on Birmingham city centre. Let me throw in my three euros’ worth.Read
When I sat down 12 months ago to write a few words on what 2011 would bring I paraphrased Mark Twain and said predictions are difficult, particularly about the future, and how right that was.Read
I was sitting in Row L at the Birmingham Hippodrome when I felt a warm, once familiar tingling sensation. It started somewhere around the top of my head, spread to my shoulders and induced a misty, inner glow.
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Salisbury Cathedral has a rather splendid new font. Back in the 1970s its designer Bill Pye was at work in the West Midlands creating public works of art. It did not go well.Read
As we know all too well, the economy is not recovering as quickly as expected. George Osborne argues there are a number of reasons for this, none of which can be pinned on him.
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I am faced with a dilemma. Recently I have had the opportunity through a sabbatical to pursue a long standing interest around gender and leadership. Read
