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Birmingham is now regarded as the basket-case of Europe with more than 300 sites of historical interest and other landmarks are being assessed for their disposal potential.

EXCLUSIVE: The leader of bankrupt Birmingham city council who took a trip to New York to celebrate his 50th birthday while the city falls into disarray wont return from his trip until next Monday.

Birmingham employs 21 council officials on annual salaries of more than £100,000 who no doubt enjoyed the Pride flag waving at the Commonwealth Games.

Birmingham City Council spent millions on a botched IT system and spent another £184 million on its costly bid to stage the Commonwealth Games

Michael Gove is spearheading new ‘street votes’ law to give residents greater say on housing developments and other proposed changes

The Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill, which was in the Queens Speech, will enshrine a name change vote in law. 45 streets and statues are in the process of being cancelled in London.

Changing street names will no longer be possible without first holding small-scale referenda under government plans to stop local heritage being wiped out by woke campaign groups.

The reckoning: the toppling of monuments to slavery in the UK Aamna Mohdin and Rhi Storer © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Martin Godwin/The Guardian The toppling of the statue of the slave trader Edward Colston in Bristol was a bittersweet moment for 23-year-old Nasra Ayub. The community activist, who has always called the city home, remembers the long-standing campaigns to remove iconography of Colston in schools, public buildings and spaces. She graduated from the Un...

Roads to be named after Victoria Cross heroes in latest Tory plan for war on woke Birmingham City Council was accused of ‘virtue signalling’ after it gave streets names including Diversity Grove and Equality Road 23 January 2021 • 9:00pm Street names unveiled by Birmingham City Council Credit: Birmingahm City Council/ New roads could be named after military and civilian heroes under plans backed by two Cabinet ministers in the latest salvo of the Conservatives war on woke. Oliver Dowden, ...

Growing up in Leeds in the 1980s and 1990s, I was struck by the lip service paid by politicians to equality while, in the real world, children from disadvantaged backgrounds were being let down. At my comprehensive school, we had lessons in racism and sexism, but there was too little effort ensuring everyone had a grasp of maths and English. Leeds City Council – run by Labour and where Jeremy Corbyn’s former campaign chief Jon Trickett cut his teeth as leader – opposed the introduction of...