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Re-Discovering Good Planning

News Opinion

Alister Scott writes "Planning generates controversy, passion, money, winners and losers in equal measure."

'LEPing' forward in spatial planning in the Greater Birmingham and Solihull Local Enterprise Partnership

Unspoilt turf recalls a life long gone

CricketTalk

Scarborough cricket ground — Jon Griffin writes "It had been the best part of 30 years since I had last set foot in the ground – almost exactly half a lifetime".

The true cost of liberty in Russia today

Education

The Kremlin — Chris Upton writes "The two locations on this planet that have given me that special tingle of walking straight into history have been downtown New York and Red Square".

All stories

Re-Discovering Good Planning

News Opinion

Alister Scott writes "Planning generates controversy, passion, money, winners and losers in equal measure."

Unspoilt turf recalls a life long gone

CricketTalk

Jon Griffin writes "It had been the best part of 30 years since I had last set foot in the ground – almost exactly half a lifetime".

The true cost of liberty in Russia today

Education

Chris Upton writes "The two locations on this planet that have given me that special tingle of walking straight into history have been downtown New York and Red Square".

Chelsea's new manager Jose Mourinho during the press conference at Stamford Bridge.

Abramovich kicks the soft approach into touch at Chelsea

Business of Sport

Peter Sharkey writes "Jose Mourinho appeared in a blaze of flashbulbs, ready to sprinkle some much-needed stardust on an organisation widely disliked for the manner in which it has tried to assume the mantle of a ‘big club’ without necessarily appreciating the corresponding need for humility such status infers".

NHS should be a politics free zone

Dr Sarj Bahia writes "Politicians who do not see further than the next election have no stake in the NHS’s long-term survival and therefore are the worst people to have in charge of it".

Brian May joins protesters dressed as badgers as they march through central London to call for an end to plans for a badger cull.

Town versus country in the battle of the badger

Politics

Jonathan Walker writes "Is there any other nation on earth that would put the welfare of badgers above the livelihood of farmers?"

Right or wrong? But you can’t doubt Edward Snowdon’s bravery

Politics

Christopher Bucktin writes "Since I arrived in America every phone call I’ve made, email I’ve sent and internet search I’ve carried out has been monitored unlawfully by Uncle Sam".

Disaster puts our lives in perspective

Education

Sarah Evans writes "The most common reaction when I tell people that I am head of a school is one of pity mixed with horror".

Councillor Sir Albert Bore, Leader of Birmingham City Council

Sir Albert Bore facing fight to ‘take people with him’

Birmingham City Council

Neil Elkes writes "When Sir Albert Bore announced the ‘end of local government as we know it’ last year many took it as an apocalyptic analysis of the state of Birmingham City Council’s finances".

Denise Welch: Hanging is too good for child killer Mark Bridger

News Opinion

"The fact he killed little April Jones is horrific enough, to subject her family to a lengthy trial because of his unending stream of lies was cruelty beyond belief"

David Kuczora: Suburban train dream derailed

Birmingham City Council

David Kuczora writes about plans to sell land in Camp Hill for the re-opening of Moseley and Kings Heath railway stations and two brand new stations.

University Education should not be about filling buckets, it's about lighting a fire

News Opinion

Alister Scott writes about a serious disconnect with the general direction of university education policy and practice in England.

Neil Elkes: A little less conversation

Conservative Party

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.

Jon Walker: Change not to the benefit of burdened authorities

Birmingham City Council

Local authorities are bracing themselves for the introduction of troubled welfare reforms which are rapidly descending into chaos.

Christopher Bucktin: Panic of just 56 seconds between life and death

Barack Obama

Christopher Bucktin writes from the United States

King Edward's School, Birmingham, which shares its site with King Edward VI High School for Girls

Sarah Evans: Heading in the direction of a sustainable approach

Local News

The next time you think of getting on the phone and berating a head teacher - pause.

Tony Morgan eats a cricket as part of the Edible Insects event at Liverpool Museum in 2002

Peter Shirley: Insects can be nutritious and delicious!

United Nations

A few weeks ago, I wrote about the growing interest in eating insects, especially in developed countries like ours.

The Philippines. Picture Atsushi Tomura/Getty Images

Peter Sharkey: Organisers may have to forget profit at Rugby World Cup

Rugby World Cup

Even though we’re more than two years away from the Rugby World Cup in England, concerns regarding its funding are already to the fore.

It's time for me to come out: I'm a Conservative

Conservative Party

Being young, gay and a Tory are three combinations you wouldn't expect to put together, but David Kuczora explains why he supports the Conservative party, despite mixed reactions from friends.