The curious case of the missing councillor
Plus: who are the movers and shakers shaping Brum — and Britain — in years to come?
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Secretive and rushed: inside the fire sales flogging £1bn of Brum’s public assets
Plus: which Birmingham councillor reportedly lives in Leeds?
Did Birmingham have to go bankrupt?
Bin strikes, equal pay claims and a disputed £500m
At Reform's Birmingham bonanza, set design is the real winner
Last week, Nigel Farage attempted to host the 'biggest political event' in modern British history
The council says striking bin workers are violent. The union says that's rubbish.
It's week three of an all out bins strike and rumours are flying. Who do we trust?
Regional mayors paid £3m to a training company. What did they get in return?
Inside the collapse of Redstone Training
Leaked recordings and scheming councillors: did Labour councillors engage in a ‘campaign of abuse’?
Shabina Bano claims she was the victim of bullying, harassment and misogyny by her former Birmingham Labour colleagues
Waseem Zaffar’s house was turned into a filthy HMO. He says he has nothing to do with it
The former Birmingham City Council cabinet member has previously complained about the excess of HMOs in the city
The Battle for Brockmoor and Pensnett
Amidst declining living standards, an unpopular Labour government and scandal in Dudley Council, do the forces of populism have an inroad? Or will the two-party system hold?
No justice, no peace? Why hasn’t there been a public inquiry into the 1974 Birmingham bombings?
50 years after the Birmingham bombings, and no one is any closer to getting to the truth. The story of why, and how, a public inquiry hasn’t happened