Birmingham Articles

The overlong and overcharged debate about the airport expansion in the south-east has until recently been conducted with an exclusively London-centric focus, with the arguments for and against expanding the capacity at Heathrow. The government has now opted for...

One of the key debates in democratic government over recent decades has been the restoration of the profile given to cities. If not quite on a par with the city states of renaissance Italy, cities are nevertheless clearly recognised for their role in the new global...

The issue of the provision of new homes is an important topic of national political debate for the first time since the 1960s. We welcome this debate, because we believe that here in Birmingham we are leading the way in both providing new homes ourselves, but also...

‘I might have nightmares about the prime minister modelling Speedos on his world tour’, was Labour MP Pamela Nash’s reaction to David Cameron today who was on bumptious form, boasting about his trade trip to China, where he had been pushing said Speedos to the Chinese...