Joe Lycetts’ United States of Birmingham followed the pursuit of several Birmingham’s across the Atlantic in 2024, joining ...

Dear readers — at the start of last year we wrote about the desi pub and its unstoppable rise. If you don’t recall, I’d urge ...

The original Au Pairs. Illustration: The Dispatch. Birmingham's post-punk auteurs were the poster band for equality, but 42-years later they're embroiled in a bitter row Dear readers, Kate here. The ...

The Peter Pan of Pop’s final big-screen role is a prize piece of Brummie pop culture. Just maybe not in the way he intended… ...

A gathering at OIKOS cafe. Photo courtesy of OIKOS. The Telegraph slammed the area and one local said it was on the ‘verge of civil war’. What's it actually like? Dear readers — you asked, The ...

In Jane Austen’s 1815 novel Emma, the character Mrs Elton is scathing about some recent acquaintances. “They came from Birmingham, which is not a place to promise much, you know, Mr Weston. One has no ...

Is the American fast food joint a democratising force, offering cheap food for all, or an unwanted corporate presence threatening a hard-won independent economy? The thing about Stirchley is it’s ...

The Peter Pan of Pop’s final big-screen role is a prize piece of Brummie pop culture. Just maybe not in the way he intended… At a sodden Spaghetti Junction, a Mini Clubman descends from the M6 to the ...

As the service at Westminster Abbey was drawing to a close, Archbishop Dr Rowan Williams, in sleepy tones, asked the kneeling congregation to confess their sins. Instead of bowing his head, a man ...

One of my earliest memories is from the old Birmingham Science Museum on Newhall Street. I don’t remember much about the exhibits or the building, except for one thing: the Smethwick Engine. I used to ...

Thousands of people grew up in the shadow of ‘the tall, skinny Courtaulds chimney’. Now they can’t help wondering about its legacy. My mum is on end of life care, visited regularly by nurses from a ...

He’s the mayor who transformed Birmingham from a sleepy and ignorant city into something great - but is there more to the myth? A few years ago, I was at a conference on cities and urban development ...