A few years ago there was a television news feature on Harold Wilson's Labour Government of the 1960s and its success in driving through a series of social reforms, including the legalisation of homosexuality for over 21s, the abolition of the death penalty and the legalisation of abortion.Read
A little over a decade ago the leader of Birmingham City Council, Sir Albert Bore secured a victory in a Labour group leadership contest in a manner described as 'crushing' in this newspaper.Read
The average growing family living in a three-bed semi or terrace in the suburbs may be considering that it's about time to look at an extension, after all the publicity surrounding permitted development rights.Read
Former Birmingham City Council leader Mike Whitby set a few hares running some years back when he suggested that some of the city's assets could be sold to wealthy Arabs.Read
Harmony almost broke out at the council Cabinet this week as the three political groups all nodded sagely and said how great it would be if all council staff, whether employed directly or indirectly through contractors could be reasonably paid.Read
It has come as little surprise that the eight core cities of England have arrived at the conclusion that they have a different agenda to their neighbours in the shires and little to gain by allying themselves through the Local Government Association.Read
At a time when so much of what happens in public at the city council is staged, it was refreshing to hear an open admission that Birmingham’s Cabinet was divided over an issue.Read
Ladywood is frequently highlighted as the constituency with the UK’s highest unemployment rate. Life-expectancy, infant mortality and child poverty rates are also among the worst in the UK – and this has barely changed over the last 30 years.Read
It may not have the quality of a Scandinavian cop show, boast the spectacle and excitement of Doctor Who or have the depth of a Stephen Poliakoff drama, but Birmingham City Council’s new internet broadcast service is certainly pulling in the viewers.Read
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