• Having been thrust into the national spotlight earlier this week – not that you would have really noticed the city’s moment of [...]

  Creating a stir in Birmingham

  September 11, 2008
• A round-up of the bad, mad and loveably strange: The rot set in when they started to believe their own hype. Now Top Gear is heading for the [...]

  Clamping Top Gear, scuttling Brum’s boaters and the Eccentric City

  September 2, 2008
• I’m still in a round-up kind of mood, so here goes for today. A businessman who was the subject of fake profiles on Facebook, created by a [...]

  Facebook “friends”, privacy, piracy, house building and city living

  July 24, 2008
• It is shameless plug time again. The wife has created a book from the 366-day self-portrait photography project she completed in May. It was [...]

  Self-portraits, dolls, cannibalism and writing blogs

  July 17, 2008