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After the boys of summer 15 Aug 2013 | 07:30 pm
Howard Wilkinson reports on the mystery of the summer of 1983. The summer we’ll never hear about because Anna couldn’t step up to the plate. We are always open to receiving work from new contributors...
Birmingham less shit than Manchester or London: Official 6 Aug 2013 | 03:47 pm
A whopping 65% of people in a recent poll said that Manchester was the shittiest city in the UK, beating London into second place. Birmingham, for once, came nowhere—proving that it’s the greatest cit...
Your opinion on Birmingham’s place in the World needed 2 Aug 2013 | 03:58 pm
After yet another survey created to create news and prop up a failing business (this time Trinity Mirror itself) ‘slates’ Birmingham, it’s time to have a proper scientific survey that will produce pro...
101 Things Brum Gave The World. No. 34: The Vacuum Cleaner 25 Jul 2013 | 08:33 pm
Freddie Mercury liked using one while in drag, and it makes an awful mess when you empty the bag. Apocryphally they end up in casualty departments all around the country attached to blokes’ private ar...
101 Things Brum Gave The World. No. 33: The Internet 18 Jul 2013 | 03:55 pm
We are under attack. Our very way of life is threatened. All because of the fucking Internet. Make no mistake, we are at war with the machines now, today. It’s already started. And there’s one sure fi...
101 Things Brum Gave The World. No. 32: The Weather 17 Jul 2013 | 04:19 pm
“Earlier on today, apparently, a woman rang the BBC and said she heard there was a hurricane on the way…well, if you’re watching, don’t worry, there isn’t!” Oh, Michael Fish you were a weatherman. An...
Embarrassing Public Bodies 2 Jul 2013 | 03:25 pm
I don’t think I’ve ever taken a book out of the Central Library in Birmingham, nor used one for reference. I’m not really a library person. I used to copy CDs from there like everybody did before mp3s...
Shelf sacrifice 1 Jul 2013 | 04:19 pm
The thing about anywhere you consider ‘home’ is that you never really start considering it that way until it’s not there any more. Walking into Central Library on its last day I found it devoid of bo...
So farewell then Central Library… 28 Jun 2013 | 03:00 pm
So. Farewell Then Central Library John Madin’s ziggurat You were a huge Building With books in. But that was not Your only purpose. You stood for Ambition and Birmingham’s ideals. But you...
101 Things Brum Gave The World. No. 31: Whistleblowing 11 Jun 2013 | 03:49 pm
If there’s one thing you learn at school, and if the current Education secretary gets his way it many be soon the only thing, it’s this: no one likes a tell tale tit. Watching The Sweeney, you may ha...
