• 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
• I’m not entirely sure what to make of the news that Birmingham only manages to make 14th on the list of the most cultured local authority [...]

  Birmingham fails to make cultural top 10

  July 25, 2008
• I’m indebted to Le Craic for initially pointing me in the direction of Sir Alan Sugar’s attempts to tackle the UK’s [...]

  The Apprentice and the hoodies

  May 7, 2008
• I appear to have angered a fellow reader of The Birmingham Post with my response to a blog post on class issues and multiculturalism. For the [...]

  Class, culture, credentials and blogging

  March 17, 2008

• China is gearing up to welcome the world to this year’s Olympic Games by clamping down on foreign culture. After introducing restrictions [...]

  Chinese take-away for SpongeBob SquarePants

  February 20, 2008
• The mass ranks of Goats – sorry, Government Of All Talents (sic) – are on a mission to unlock our full potential, whatever it might [...]

  Everyone welcome in Gordon’s culture club

  February 13, 2008