There was a happier time, in the floppy-fringed days of the Nineties, when the mighty British gangster flicks roamed the box offices, gorging themselves on Generation X’s power fantasies, enriching an entire class of Cockney […]
Birmingham Banter
Birmingham. It is the place I called home for eighteen-years, and recently it was criticised by a fellow writer.Insulting our pies, low blow. It is a misunderstood place, I find. I might look at Birmingham […]
Birmingham Backlash, Take Two
Would people actually notice if Birmingham merely ceased to exist? I’d say its 1,000,000 residents would! Last week, Stephen Rainbird decided that one of the most richly diverse cities in our country could easily be […]
Birmingham Blues
Would people actually notice if Birmingham merely ceased to exist? If one day, everything from Birmingham disappeared, and its populace was dispersed into other, less irrelevant population centres, would there be any tangible effect felt […]