Results tagged “Birmingham” from Birmingham Post - News Blog

Well who would have believed our Tuesday story about Birmingham City Council accidently printing a picture of Birmingham Alabama on its recycling leaflet could have recieved so much attention.

News of the blunder, first discovered by Kings Heath resident Jon Cooper who contacted The Birmingham Post about it, has appeared on national news and is zooming across the blogosphere.

Here is just a taste of what people have said:

They say that manners maketh a man - indeed, one or two bloggers have said it against me - but equally, of course, it also maketh a woman.

Last week, for instance, I had a lunchtime appointment to see a female colleague in Birmingham.

Scandal is the word that springs to mind. I'm talking about a Government report that shows children from the poorest areas have the least qualified teachers.
It makes you wonder what education is for in this country. Is it to perpetuate social inequality or is it to help children no matter what their background make the most of their lives?

I bet you're thinking to yourself, this has all been done before. Complaining about the Olympics is nothing new. Well I don't care, I'm going to do it again.

The Olympics is a gloriously obscene, corrupt, grotesque, pointless, wasteful woolly white mammoth of an event.

I was at a meeting of the West Midlands Police Authority today, the body that oversees the actions of the local force. A group of top cops and politicians all talking about how the police force will pay for the extra effort of the London 2012 Olympics.

What a waste of Midlanders' money. And what a waste of police officers - officers previously in action in Birmingham will be taken down to London to help out the Met.

I don't know about you but the results of the London mayoral elections scare me a little.

If Boris Johnson - a celebrity upper middle class buffoon - can take the crown, then there is something deeply disconcerting about the system which enables such a political light weight to take the centre stage.

Shouldn't his victory ring alarm bells for those keen to impose the same mayoral system for Birmingham and all other British cities?