The Dispatch

The Dispatch has been a member of Linktree for 1 year and joined in December 2024. Resources birminghamdispatch has populated their site with include: • Forget Greater Birmingham, this is Mercia • Don't let us lose The Archers • The lycra-clad warriors of the West Midlands • The UK’s most booming China Town and its (very) minor power struggle • A blistering letter: Are Birmingham’s council officers to blame for our exempt accommodation crisis? • The many lives of Jimmy Spices • Help us transform Birmingham for the better • It’s time for Greater Birmingham • Free Dispatch subscriptions for 16-25 year olds! • ‘All about the handbag’: How Birmingham’s gay scene turned against its leader • When Birmingham knocked down a Pugin masterpiece…and built a ring road • Buy tickets – What’s in the Bag? An evening with Luke Kennard • Cobs shmobs: in defence of Joe Lycett’s BMAG show • An American ambassador in Birmingham • Joe Lycett is Birmingham’s greatest champion. He’s not its greatest artist • The ultimate city centre desi pub ranking • ‘Destroying the chicken farm to make an omlette’: Are Birmingham’s rail upgrades going to derail its creatives? • The ale king of England • Not fast but furious: popping the bonnet on the 20mph row • The private meetings - and very public rancour - that led to Birmingham’s flags injunction • From Villa Park to the Village Green • How not to run a pub • The Americans want to build an Etihad in East Birmingham. Will it work? • Keiran Goddard on how Birmingham shaped Antony Boyle film • Codenames and a ‘tense atmosphere’: inside the big bus buyout • An ‘apocalypse’ in Stourbridge • Spirit of Pakistan celebrates British Pakistanis. Why do some of them want it cancelled? • Raised in Weoley Castle • Where is Birmingham’s buzz? • The ‘piss troll strategy’, a Brummie novel on the Booker longlist, and town vs. the suburbs • In 1984, Richard Davis was rudderless in Moseley. Then he picked up a camera • When Brum’s indie bands (briefly) ruled the world • Are we ready for Burnham’s Birmingham? • The art of the wheel • How Birmingham built the best schools in Britain • Where did all our lidos go? And can we get them back? • Raise the Colours deny links with organiser accused of making indecent child images • A nightclub encounter and my return to Birmingham • We’re hiring: Staff Writer for The Dispatch in Birmingham – Mill Media • ‘She was asking for it’: confronting David Sullivan • How an Edgbaston houseshare gave the world the atomic bomb • Andrew Tate hero worship and Bonnie Blue ‘banter’: how are smartphones affecting Brum’s schoolkids? • The ‘marmite’ doctor who thinks he can solve blood cancer • Longest wait for a tram. Ever. • Exclusive: Court transcripts contradict Shabana Mahmood’s denials about a notorious vote-rigging case • Exclusive: Why did Shabana Mahmood vote using the wrong ballot in 2004? • Exclusive: Shabana Mahmood’s postal ballot was investigated in a 2004 vote-rigging scandal in Birmingham • This 19th-century Birmingham radical helped end slavery • The men who raised the flags • Au Pairs agreed to split everything equally. Now their frontwoman wants it all • After 859 years, the future of the Bullring’s markets is hanging in the balance • The numbers that reveal Birmingham didn’t have to go bankrupt • The murder that never was: the strange story of Birmingham’s last public execution • Let the battle for Moseley commence! • Red flags: The non-existent company behind Brum's Union Jacks • Does this councillor know where his on-the-run criminal brother is? • The headteacher’s missing receipts: how did a Selly Oak school get into £400,000 of debt? • Disappearing furniture and tears in the break room: the chaotic end to two decades of Doctors • Competing vigils for sex attack victim expose divides among Smethwick’s Sikhs • The impatience of Richard Parker • Peter Phillips: prince of pop art • How Harborne's lost railway directed Birmingham's future • The flags dividing Birmingham • Alum Rock’s Kasim Ali on his new novel, Trojan Horse and writing men • The Raven Hotel was left empty for 15 years. This month it set on fire • Danny, champion of Sutton Park • Inside the dramatic deselection of 11 Labour councillors • Has Moseley lost its edge? • Pebble Mill Studios and Birmingham's golden age of telly • Small plates vs late night drinks: can the two sides of Stirchley coexist? • Manchester’s economy is leaving Birmingham behind • The revolution starts in Moseley • The Solihull band that influenced Sonic Youth and Blur • Black Monday: two of Brum’s best-loved venues close • Woon Wing Yip built an empire. Is it in decline? • The battle for The Close • Chicken Quarter: fair or fowl? • Small Heath is drowning in rubbish. So why doesn’t the council’s data say so? • Old square, new tricks • A new local publishing model is giving regional titles the wake-up call they need • The Dispatch • Special Investigation: The spectacular rise and sudden fall of Gurpaal Judge • Revealed: The 1,000 assets flogged off by Birmingham’s bankrupt council • Porn stars: the Birmingham university leading x-rated academia • www.birminghamdispatch.co.uk