Monthly Archives: September 2011

Financial journalist Paul Lewis on BBC Breakfast talking about the exorbitant interest charged by some ‘emergency’ loan companies… If someone took out a £63.50p loan with one of these payday loan companies, and didn’t pay it back for eight-and-a-half years, the accumulated … Continue reading →

There was a time, not so long ago, when the Labour Party conference was a media dream. Bristling personalities scrapping over policies and members across the spectrum using the fringe to try to influence those trade unionists who hadn’t already … Continue reading →

I would like to extend to those brave campaigning journalists in the BBC and the mainstream media a belated, big, warm welcome to the anti-PFI party on your late arrival at the party. Sadly, you are still getting it wrong … Continue reading →

I was alerted to this website by someone on twitter. I met someone from Detroit last year who was telling me about the decay in the City as people left the centre of the City. I thought they were exaggerating, … Continue reading →

So, Private Eye is celebrating it’s 50th birthday. I don’t see much of the magazine these days, but at one time it was required reading for anyone interested in investigative journalism. Personally, I blame that little tory ferret Hislop for … Continue reading →

The United States has committed to give Israel at least $30 billion in military aid from 2009 to 2018. Henry Porter on the tragedy of the US veto on a Palestinian State. The inconsistency between the US attitude towards Tunisia, … Continue reading →

There’s a new campaign springing up around here, mostly on twitter at the moment under the tag yes2brummayor, to promote the notion of a City Mayor for Birmingham in advance of next year’s referendum. No problem with that as far … Continue reading →

Cuts are a must, Trust told. A NEW NHS trust which cares for the mentally ill and many vulnerable elderly people will have to shave millions of pounds off its budget every year. The new Health and Care NHS Trust … Continue reading →

This is brilliant, by Roy Lilley a businessman with over 40 years experience who started his first enterprise from scratch, built it to a multi-million pound turnover and sold it to management and partners in 1989. He was the chippy … Continue reading →

Ryan Kelly, aged 20, from Leahill Croft in Chelmsley Wood, was jailed for six months after admitting looting £3,500 worth of cigarettes from a city newsagent. David Beswick, of Anson Street, Eccles, who the court heard had been given a … Continue reading →