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Author: Paul Dale

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Brexit: Corbyn might as well measure up the curtains

  • 13th November 2018
  • Paul Dale
  • Boris Johnson, Featured, Jeremy Corbyn, Opinion, Partner Posts, Popular, Recommended
Now that we are approaching the endgame, I decided to test the waters with a Brexit-supporting chum. His dogged reply was the same as it has been for a year

Sandwell’s shenanigans: will anyone notice?

  • 29th January 2018
  • Paul Dale
  • Councils, Featured, News, Partner Posts, Popular, Recommended, Sandwell Council, Tom Watson
Chamberlain Files always hesitates to get involved in Black Country politics, having more than enough to contend with on its own doorstep. But the latest shenanigans involving Sandwell Council cannot

Sometimes only single-minded mavericks can succeed

  • 17th January 2018
  • Paul Dale
  • Featured, Opinion, Partner Posts, Popular, Recommended
If the health police haven’t yet been alerted, they’d jolly well better be, writes Paul Dale.  A film that is doing a roaring trade in Britain’s cinemas has as its

Time to review region’s green belt

  • 20th December 2017
  • Paul Dale
  • Andy Street, Featured, green belt, housing, Opinion, Partner Posts, Popular, Recommended, west midlands combined authority, WMCA
Conservationists will probably be delighted to learn that West Midlands Mayor Andy Street has thrown his weight behind a campaign to save the Dudley green belt, writes Paul Dale.  Well,

Boom time as Greater Birmingham on course to hit jobs target three years early

  • 13th October 2016
  • Paul Dale
  • #ThinkBirmingham, Andy Street, Birmingham Enterprise Zone, Councils, Devolution, Featured, GBSLEP, News, Partner Posts
Greater Birmingham is within touching distance of hitting a challenging job creation target three years early with the region beginning to see the benefits of sustained economic recovery. Record levels

West Midlands councils among first to test Government’s business rates reforms

  • 13th October 2016
  • Paul Dale
  • #ThinkBirmingham, Birmingham City council, Cllr John Clancy, Councils, Devolution, Featured, Greg Clark, Local Government Association, News, Partner Posts
West Midlands’ councils could be among the first in the country to benefit from the Government’s business rates retention scheme – enabling them to keep all of the taxes generated

Five years and a million words later, Paul Dale bids a fond farewell to the Files

  • 13th October 2016
  • Paul Dale
  • #ThinkBirmingham, Birmingham City council, Birmingham Curzon, Councils, Featured, Greater Birmingham metro mayor, HS2, Midland Metro, New Street Station, Opinion, Partner Posts, WMCA, WMPCC
And so, the end is near. Almost five years after joining Chamberlain Files, and about a million words later, I’ve had my say. For now, at any rate. Erstwhile Chief

Birmingham city council on course to ‘terminate’ Capita contract

  • 11th October 2016
  • Paul Dale
  • Birmingham City council, Cllr John Clancy, Councils, Featured, News, Partner Posts
Outsourcing giants Capita could be stripped of a lucrative contract to collect council tax and business rates income for Birmingham city council. The council cabinet is expected to agree next

Birmingham city council on course to ‘terminate’ Capita contract

  • 11th October 2016
  • Paul Dale
  • Birmingham City council, Cllr John Clancy, Councils, Featured, News, Partner Posts
Outsourcing giants Capita could be stripped of a lucrative contract to collect council tax and business rates income for Birmingham city council. The council cabinet is expected to agree next

Government social care spending cuts ‘insane economics’, says Tory health chief

  • 11th October 2016
  • Paul Dale
  • Birmingham City council, Birmingham social services, Councils, Featured, News, Partner Posts
A former Tory cabinet minister has accused the Government of indulging in “insane economics” by starving councils of money for social care for elderly people. Stephen Dorrell said NHS hospitals
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