Articles...
Oct 29 2008
If there is something to be said this morning for Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand – and frankly I’m struggling – it is the fact that they have momentarily broken the vice-like grip of the US elections and the collapse of world capitalism on the news agenda....
Oct 15 2008
If you travel on the upper deck of a number 50 bus from Moseley Village to Bradford Street, you will get a strong impression of an England poised on the brink of catastrophic environmental decline....
Sep 3 2008
After the debacle of Britain’s eight-minute hand-over ceremony in Beijing, should we be (a) indifferent (b) afraid, or (c) very afraid at the prospect of a four-year UK “Cultural Olympiad”?...
Aug 20 2008
Today’s divorce rate is usually interpreted as a worrying symptom of a decline in social stability, but there’s another way of looking at it: the 19th century must have been full of people trapped in miserable marriages....
Aug 20 2008
Absence makes the heart grow fonder, and after long years of disappointment from Blair and Brown it was refreshing to hear the statesmanlike tones of the once equally hapless John Major on yesterday’s Today programme....
Aug 12 2008
Terry Grimley takes a stroll through the complete public art collections of Staffordshire, courtesy of the Public Catalogue Foundation....
Aug 12 2008
As Birmingham Opera Company stages its latest production, the inquiry into the row over the Arts Council’s Christmas cuts shows how reorganisation created a structure that was unfit for purpose. ...
Aug 7 2008
Having sold out for its entire run until mid-November, with tickets being traded for crazy prices on eBay, this Hamlet faced a tall order in living up to its anticipation as one of Royal Shakespeare Company’s biggest events for years....
Aug 6 2008
There is a general perception that the classical music recording industry is not so much in crisis as lying in ruins. But that’s just one side of the coin....
Aug 5 2008
Returning for only the third time later this month. Stourbridge’s International Festival of Glass can seriously claim to be the most internationally significant visual arts event taking place in the West Midlands this year....
