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Post Comment: Birmingham can become a creative centre again Dec 01 2011

Birmingham has a thriving creative industries sector which contributes significantly to the city and the regional economy, and we need to keep it.Read

Post Comment: The difficulties of social enterprise Dec 01 2011

Attempts by Birmingham City Council to reduce the pain of public spending cuts by finding innovative ways to reconfigure service delivery are entirely laudable. Read

Post Comment: George between rock and hard place Nov 25 2011

Who would want to be George Osborne today?Read

Post Comment: The future should still be Bright for MPs Nov 25 2011

John Bright may be an inspiration to aspiring politicians everywhere.Read

Post Comment: Library cuts are not an open book Nov 18 2011

John Dolan, Birmingham’s former Head of Libraries, gives every appearance of being a very angry man in the open letter he has written to city council leader Mike Whitby.Read

Post Comment: We want a mayor with clout, please Minister Nov 18 2011

Birmingham may not want a mayor.Read

Post Comment: High speed rail divides the nation Nov 11 2011

Rarely has a debate sparked such vitriol and bitterness as the question of whether the United Kingdom should build a high speed rail line.Read

Post Comment: Council chief deserves praise for heartfelt memo Nov 11 2011

The chief executive of Birmingham City council, Stephen Hughes, must have found himself in the classic no-win situation when deciding how he should respond to growing fury at the impact on local authority staff and public services of unprecedented spending cuts.Read

Post Comment: We're proud to back business Nov 04 2011

For more than 150 years, the Birmingham Post has been a champion of business and enterprise.Read

Post Comment: Good start for the LEP - but something's missing Nov 04 2011

The doubters have been proved wrong. Greater Birmingham and Solihull LEP has been a great success so far, having secured regional growth fund money, won approval for a major enterprise zone and developed the exciting “Creative City” initiative.Read

Post Comment: Why we need a cultural revolution Oct 28 2011

It remains to be seen whether the Birmingham-Solihull Local Enterprise Partnership can actually deliver anything much at all since its main funding opportunity rests on tapping into business rates from companies moving into the area at some future point when the economy picks up.Read

Post Comment: Mayoral critics hit target with well-timed jabs Oct 28 2011

We all like politicians who say what they think – and campaigners opposed a directly elected mayor for Birmingham could hardly have been blunter.Read

Post Comment: If we can't have a Boris then why bother? Oct 21 2011

Whether or not Birmingham should have a mayor is set to become a topic of much debate over the next seven months, and we’ll do our best to ensure both sides of the argument get a fair hearing in our pages.Read

Post Comment: Few solutions to an age-old problem Oct 21 2011

Is there anyone who believes it’s “fair” that the nation is suffering because of the stupidity of bankers who bought and sold debt vehicles which they barely understood?Read

Post Comment: Risky to guarantee results success Oct 14 2011

The Excellence Academy epitomises both the benefits and the virtues of the Government’s free schools policy.Read

Post Comment: Storming out of the EU is simply not the answer Oct 14 2011

Europe helped end Margaret Thatcher’s career, and the issue made John Major’s life a misery in Number 10.Read

Post Comment: It's taking time to trust Mr Cameron Oct 07 2011

David Cameron could probably have done without holding a conference at all this year.Read

Post Comment: Gisela's mayoral bid will fire up one-party contest Oct 07 2011

And then there were three. Three potential candidates for elected mayor of Birmingham that is, if we dismiss the challenge of ex-policeman Ray Egan, aka John Bull, about whom little has been heard recently.Read

Post Comment: Slimline council's efficiency tonic Sep 30 2011

The scale of job losses at Birmingham City Council – more than 14,000 since 2009 – is a staggering statistic. But even more mind boggling is the fact that a little more than two years ago the council found it necessary to employ almost 62,000 people.Read

Post Comment: Who will pick winners in Ed's new economy? Sep 30 2011

Ed Miliband certainly doesn’t lack ambition.Read

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