Join me and L&Q Group Chief Executive Fiona Fletcher-Smith for a Labour Housing Group conversation about how we meet this crucial housing challenge.

It was a huge honour to be appointed as an Honorary Alderman of Birmingham City Council yesterday afternoon.

I join Cory Hazlehurst and Mark Pack on their Political Fictions podcast for some full on 1990s nostalgia and appreciation of the late, great John Thaw.

Why is the story of Birmingham’s economy still a “tale of two cities” for too many people? In my first blog as an Associate of City-REDI, University of Birmingham, I return to a question that has bedevilled our economy - and the lives of many of our fellow citizens - for too long.