Compass West Midlands on Transport - This Saturday
Thursday, March 12th, 2009Trains, Planes and Automobiles, or People, Places and Planet?
Getting around in the West Midlands after the crunch.
The West Midlands Transport system is crumbling, some would say in crisis. But who should be the prime beneficiaries of new transport investment in our region?
In this event Compass will explore the issues around the creation of a sustainable [...]
City of Dreams - New Birmingham Blog
Thursday, October 16th, 2008Birmingham left blogs tend to come and go quite quickly, which is a shame really.
Birmingham: City of Dreams is a new blog which has made a promising start, focussing on the realities of economic policy (something close to my heart).
The blogger in question describes himself, rather intriguingly. as:
.. a Southerner trapped in Brum, surrounded [...]
Birmingham Uni - Labour Students
Tuesday, May 6th, 2008Tom Marley has emailed asking me to plug the blog pages of Birmingham University’s Labour Students Group, which has now been added to the blogroll.
This is a good read and an excellent way for a Labour Student society to test out ideas and communicate with eh rest of the world (or the real world as [...]
Tory Culture Policy ….
Sunday, July 22nd, 2007Over the last couple of years the dreary and complacent Tory and Lib Dem alliance that currently runs Birmingham, have consistently eat away at community arts budgets. Indeed, they have cut a number of very high profile events that drew in huge audiences, events like the Party in the Park which was a great hit [...]
