Richard Servian

Neville Chamberlain was MP for Ladywood …..

2024 General Election result for Birmingham Ladywood

2024 result: The runner up had a few weeks before got 70,000 votes in the WM Mayoral election. Wander if the Green will stand given there seemed to have been an agreement with Corbyn and Galloway not to stand in Gorton & Denton….

'Always have clean shirts to play around with'

Straight faced men in suits telling you what to think, as if they’re your Headteacher- all in Reform now by the look of it but believe Oswald Moseley was like this too….

The UK Terrestrial Channel 5 is owned by Paramount Global- so seems closer to Trump than even GB tv..

And Every mistake
We must surely be learning
And still my guitar gently weeps….

Mexico President Sheinbaum:
"These high-caliber rifles, rocket launchers used by the cartels - they come from the United States."
She named Operation Fast & Furious: the US government ran guns directly to Mexican cartels
Not one person was ever held responsible. #cdnpoli

Good on @itvnews.bsky.social for continuing to highlight historic Care issues : 'The long battle for adoption records access' www.itv.com/news/2026-02...

The Underpass at Wolverhampton Station

Blimey The underpass to the Wednesfield Road is finally open at Wolverhampton Station!!!

Suspect this is for real

Dirty Business Shocking real-life drama about the muck in our water and a corporate scandal

Dirty Business on Channel 4 is brilliant www.channel4.com/programmes/d...

Interesting two adjacent articles mentioning the British Virgin Islands….

Hearing, although my family has been here in the UK for 150 years, Refork might still send us back ..... Must find that Polish bakery to get used to the cakes......

Fresh concerns over Wolverhampton taxis in Portsmouth Councillors raise concerns over out of town taxis and call for lobbying of Wolverhampton council.

This runs and runs… everywhere… www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The End of Days by Jenny Erpenbeck, Transl from German. A eye opening 20thC history of a jewish family, by this (formerly)East German Author, also of brilliant books Kairos, & Go, Went, Gone. A different perspective than the usual Anglo American take. Recommend #Booksky

Passenger mystery of Epstein's 'Lolita Express' flight from Birmingham Airport EXCLUSIVE: Paedophile Jeffrey Epstein's jet flew in and out of BHX up to five times over two years, including a mystery journey to the US

So Epstein (not Brian) has a vaguely Birmingham (Airport) link but is this not really helping letting Trump off the hook? www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midland...

The Hundred: Harry Brook says Pakistan players' exclusion would be England skipper Harry Brook says it would be

The Hundred: first a Tragedy, then a farce
''A shame' if Pakistan players excluded from Hundred '- www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricke...

Plans for Willenhall children’s home next to eight-bed HMO Plans have been submitted to open a children’s home two doors from an approved House of Multiple Occupation (HMO).

Plans for Willenhall children’s home next to eight-bed HMO

www.expressandstar.com/news/local-h...

Labour minister falsely linked journalists to ‘pro-Kremlin’ network in emails to GCHQ Exclusive: Josh Simons pressed intelligence officials to investigate reporters, in emails described as ‘McCarthyite smear’

Josh Simons says he was "furious" at how the PR firm Labour Together hired smeared journalists

But he handed its baseless 'reports' to the security services

The minister's comments don't stack up

As Jon Cruddas told me weeks ago: "this is dark shit"

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Is he eligible for the State Pension?

See also Tory Mayor Andy Street and the expansion of light and heavy rail in the West Midlands - should be 5 Stations and two new Tram lines happening this year thanks to him (although Thatcher’s abolition of the WM County Council prevented this happening 30 years earlier)

#NASW strongly opposes the motion to expel the Israeli Union of Social Workers (IUSW) from the International Federation of Social Workers (IFSW). Read our full statement: tinyurl.com/5rtf954s

Massive blow as Government axe funding for crackdown on rogue 'exempt' providers Labour government confirms it is axing special fund to help Birmingham tackle impact of supported exempt accommodation

Massive blow as Government axe funding for crackdown on rogue 'exempt' providers

www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midland...

Given the 'personalised" Letter received that I hadn't asked or agreed to, supposedly from Farage, posted in Feltham, London to my West Mids Council area will Farage have time to send more to these new electoral areas. They seem to have the money.... Is there now an expenses time limit?

Families bid to take over their children’s care home that amassed huge tax debts Parents wish to ‘take matters into our own hands’ as William Blake House faces potential winding up order A group of families have launched an audacious bid to take over their disabled children’s residential care home after it emerged the charity running it faces closure after amassing huge tax debts and paying £1m in fees to one of its trustees. William Blake House faces a potential winding up order in seven weeks and is under investigation by regulators over serious financial governance concerns. The families said they no longer trust that the charity’s board has their children’s best interests at heart. Continue reading...

Families bid to take over their children’s care home that amassed huge tax debts

Britain’s care system promotes modern slavery. A genuinely humane government would reform it | Andrea Egan New proposals that would force poorly paid migrant workers to wait longer for earned settlement are nothing more than an assault on working-class people, says Unison’s general secretary Andrea Egan

Good start from @unison.org.uk Social Worker General Secretary in @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Publicised hatred, unofficially endorsed by my student union Simi Jacobs explores the suppression of Zionist identities on Birmingham University campus

Birmingham www.jewishnews.co.uk/publicised-h...

Social workers’ AI tool makes ‘gibberish’ transcripts of accounts from children Transcription tools used by councils in England and Scotland reported to wrongly indicate suicidal ideation AI tools are making potentially harmful errors in social work records, from bogus warnings of suicidal ideation to simple “gibberish”, frontline workers have said. Keir Starmer last year championed what he called “incredible” time-saving social work transcription technology. But research across 17 English and Scottish councils shared with the Guardian has now found AI-generated hallucinations are slipping in. Continue reading...

Social workers’ AI tool makes ‘gibberish’ transcripts of accounts from children

First look at Camp Line train timetable ahead of opening Trains will be running roughly every 30 minutes from Kings Norton to Birmingham New Street along the Camp Hill Line

First look at Birmingham New Street to Kings Norton Station Camphill Line timetable www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midland...

Remember Emma when she was a Wolverhampton MP inviting Starmer to speak 2018ish & before then the Labour anticorbynite bigshots meeting locally on the eve of the 2017 election they thought they would well lose.. so certainly part of Starmer's Crowners...