Exclusive: Shabana Mahmood’s postal ballot was investigated in a 2004 vote-rigging scandal in Birmingham
The future home secretary submitted two postal ballot documents with very different signatures
The future home secretary submitted two postal ballot documents with very different signatures
The making of a West Midlands cause célèbre
‘The problem is, if you wear a business suit you look like you’ve stolen it off your dad’
Richard Parker says it was him. Andy Street says it was him. Who’s right?
Double-booked interpreters, broken screens, and a system buckling under a backlog that's doubled since 2019
The stairways are being replaced for £17m — just a decade after they were first installed
‘I personally think it’s a form of social cleansing. They don’t want us. They want Greggs, they want Starbucks’
The party’s new recruits are locking horns with its old guard
A war of words heats up. Plus: £2m fake Gucci t-shirt Acocks Green operation busted
Ian Francis has a (fully-costed) plan. Now he just needs developers on side
It’s The Dispatch’s first ever elections hustings
AI flyers are luring hundreds of young people to the city centre. What happens when they get there?
There are a lot of variables in the mix this election — and all of them look bad for the ruling party
Springtime just got serious
Deborah Douglas escaped the 1974 attacks. Decades later, she became Ian Paterson's most determined pursuer