Opinion

It’s yesterday once more with Corbyn set to lead Labour into the electoral abyss

• 11th August 2015
• Paul Dale
• Andy Burnham, Ed Miliband, Featured, GE2015, Jeremy Corbyn, Labour conference, Labour leadership election, Labour Party (UK), Liz Kendall, Opinion, Popular, Recommended, YouGov, Yvette Cooper

I have no reason to revise my prediction that Jeremy Corbyn will be the next Labour leader. In fact, his victory is becoming so assured that bookmakers will probably soon

‘Haunted by Kerslake, but Albert’s regeneration legacy will stand the test of time’

• 4th August 2015
• Paul Dale
• #ThinkBirmingham, Birmingham City council, Birmingham improvement panel, Councils, Devolution, Featured, John Crabtree, Kerslake Review, Lord Kerslake, Lord Whitby, Opinion, paul tilsley, Popular, Recommended, Sir Albert Bore, WM2015

Sir Albert Bore was clearly rattled by my article suggesting these were dangerous times for his continued leadership of the city council as he and colleagues struggle to implement a

Boundary Commission on Birmingham: An open letter from the chair, Max Caller

• 3rd August 2015
• Editorial
• #ThinkBirmingham, Birmingham City council, Chris Game, Councils, Devolution, Featured, Kerslake Review, Local Elections, Local Government Boundary Commission for England, Opinion, Popular, Recommended, Sir Albert Bore, WM2015

Chris Game raises some interesting and important points about the Local Government Boundary Commission for England’s electoral review of Birmingham City Council, writes Max Caller CBE. I am grateful for

Having misjudged the Boundary Commission, is the Council doing the same with the Chancellor?

• 3rd August 2015
• Chris Game
• #ThinkBirmingham, Birmingham City council, Councils, Devolution, Featured, Kerslake Review, Local Elections, Local Government Boundary Commission for England, Opinion, Popular, Recommended, Sir Albert Bore, WM2015

Chris Game from the University of Birmingham asks whether Birmingham city council is about to misjudge its handling of the Chancellor over devolution and metro mayors in the same way

Birmingham: heading for the stars, whilst trapped in a bunker

• 30th July 2015
• Kevin Johnson
• #ThinkBirmingham, Andy Street, Birmingham City council, Cllr Ian Ward, Councils, Devolution, Featured, GE2015, Greater Birmingham Combined Authority, Kerslake Review, Mike Whitby, Opinion, Sir Albert Bore, west midlands combined authority

As the summer holidays relegate politics to an after thought, Chamberlain Files editor Kevin Johnson reflects on the issues that will make September not just super but very serious indeed for

Corbyn’s appeal to young and old Labour ‘will push him past the winning post’

• 29th July 2015
• Paul Dale
• Andy Burnham, Birmingham Labour, Ed Miliband, Featured, GE2015, Jeremy Corbyn, labour party, Labour Party (UK), Liz Kendall, Opinion, Tony Blair, Yvette Cooper

Jeremy Corbyn is going to be the new Labour leader because he represents something that is strikingly different in a politically superficial age, even though victory will condemn his party to many