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LABOUR IS IN POWER. SO WHERE ARE THE HOMES?
Labour has become a far posher party than it used to be, with more landlords than tenants in its ranks.
17 hrs ago
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Mike Olley
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Labour’s Monday Immigration Gambit and the Storm They Cannot Ignore
Labour knows perfectly well that tougher immigration control has been the public’s preference for decades...To them, firm immigration control is vulgar…
17 hrs ago
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Mike Olley
A Tribute to Hon Alderman Randal Brew OBE JP, a Gentle Gentleman of Birmingham
Randal, it was a privilege to know you. You served your city with honour. You walked through life with dignity.
Nov 17
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Mike Olley
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THE WEST MIDLANDS FIRE AUTHORITY THAT RUNS FROM RESPONSIBILITY WHILE ITS FIREFIGHTERS RUN INTO FLAMES
One runs into danger. The other is meant to run the books. Sadly one isn't up to the job...
Nov 15
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Mike Olley
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Rachel Reeves, the Irony of a Landlord Licence and the Price of the Nanny State
And who, ultimately, foots the bill? The tenants, of course. Every piece of paperwork has a price, every inspection a ripple that travels straight…
Nov 14
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Mike Olley
From Zulu Pride to Saddlers’ Soul, Two Books That Tell the Midlands Story
I will raise a pint to the Blues for 150 years, to Keith “Cuddles” Batchelor for showing what redemption looks like, and to the Saddlers for still…
Nov 13
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Mike Olley
Like So Many: Birminghams The City That Reads Its Own Script
What we have are too many councillors reading out pre cleared scripts written by officers, as if the greatest political virtue is not to think.
Nov 12
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Mike Olley
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The Stadium That Slipped Through the Cracks
What has been bulldozed might not just be a stadium, but a covenant-protected community site, something the city once held in trust for public use.
Nov 11
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Mike Olley
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West Midlands Fire Service, silence and a serious question of competence
The Chief Fire Officer, the Chair of the Authority, the councillors who sit on that Authority, or the media team meant to serve them, the instinct is to…
Nov 10
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Mike Olley
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Windrush, Labour and the Convenient Forgetting of History
The real story of Windrush is not one of open-armed welcome. It is one of unease, delay and a desperate wish in Whitehall that the whole thing would…
Nov 8
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Mike Olley
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WHEN WILL THE WORLD CATCH UP ..?
The Grammys are not about the best music. They never have been. They are about the "right" kind of music, the sort made by the "right" kind of people.
Nov 7
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Mike Olley
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The Bromsgrove By-Election: Fear and Loathing in the Shires
If Labour ever wants to regain its soul, it must stop following the polite whisperings of tactical politics and start listening again to the roar of the…
Nov 6
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Mike Olley
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