Long Ball Patriotism

It’s been an unedifying year for Birmingham. Alongside our interminable bin strike, we’ve now got something else littering our streets. ‘Operation Raise the Colours’ has seen cheap flags popping up on lampposts across the city, and we’re credited by some of kicking this whole thing off. Lovely. Subtle (and not so subtle) racist motivations aside in […]

London’s Calling

Published as part of the #WM2015 series for The Chamberlain Files. According to Janan Ganesh, the jig is up: it’s time to accept that the UK is London-centred. For Ganesh this is the product of organic processes within the economy, and it in spite of politicians’ best efforts to promote regional rebalancing, they should be “humble” […]