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Looking back at Birmingham City Council's eight years under Mike Whitby - Birmingham Mail
Ironically the decline of their fortunes and the fightback by Labour started in 2010, just as at a national level a new Tory-Lib Dem coalition took shape. Like that national coalition, Birmingham's marriage of Tories and Lib Dems was a result of ...21 May 2012 07:06www.birminghammail.net

Birmingham says no to a mayor and yes to Labour councillors – lots of them - The Guardian
Jon Bownds, one orchestrator of the yes campaign, told me that local politics was, from some quarters, so lackadaisical that "the council changes hands by default, based on national politics". That was one group – Labour councillors who'd lost a penny ...04 May 2012 15:34www.guardian.co.uk

Writing Britain: the nation and the landscape - The Guardian
Most English writers, meanwhile, use the word British at best half-heartedly: it sounds inclusive – free of master-race arrogance, antagonism towards Celts or National Front jingoism – but it doesn't describe what we think we are or where we come from.04 May 2012 17:55www.guardian.co.uk

Boris Johnson accused of power grab over plans to keep London wealth - The Guardian
But Raynsford, who has been a staunch supporter of the Conservative mayor's call for a new airport hub on the Thames estuary, backs the principle of greater powers being handed down from central government but says Johnson's bid goes too far and will ...30 April 2012 03:40www.guardian.co.ukRelated News:
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No, Boris – spending more on London won't fix the country's economic woes - The Guardian (blog)
Londoners receive more taxpayer money on health, housing and culture – and they get more than double the national average on transport. What about the infrastructure being built for Britain's future? Two geographers at Newcastle University, ...30 April 2012 15:00www.guardian.co.uk