Great Countries Need Great Cities
by Jas Sansi
The CEO of Marketing Birmingham, Neil Rami speaking at a Chamber event last week suggested it was a pretty sexy time to be in Greater Birmingham right now. The city region has a spring in its step...
Sikh MPs and other Mythical Creatures
by Jas Sansi
A political wit stated ahead of the recent General Election, there are more pandas in Scotland than Tory MPs. Edinburgh Zoo houses two of the adorable creatures. Scotland has just one Tory MP. If you sympathise with...
Cameron’s New Counter-Extremism Bill
Prime Minister To Propose New Powers To Tackle Extremism
David Cameron is set to propose new powers to target extremism, criticising the UK for being a "passively tolerant society" for too long.
The new counter-extremism bill, which will be in the...
Government Announces Cabinet
Asians Among New Faces
A number of prominent Asians have been confirmed in the Government’s cabinet re-shuffle.
Previous Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport and Member of Parliament for Bromsgrove, Sajid Javid has been chosen as the new...
Frozen Pension Policy
by Yasmin Qureshi MP
Barely a week goes by without another story in the press about changes to the government’s pension policies. And yet the one issue that the government seems unwilling to address is its archaic and unjust frozen...
The Asian Vote
Asian Network's Unique Debate to be Broadcasted Across Radio
In the run up to General Election 2015 BBC Asian Network is staging ‘The Big Asian Election Debate’, taking place in the Elgar Concert Hall, University of Birmingham, to be broadcast...
Faith Action Manifesto
Topic is “Too Significant to Ignore”
FaithAction, a national network of faith-based organisations, has entered the election debate with their own manifesto. The manifesto contains seven proposals aimed at politicians, policy makers and funders with the aim of securing...
Farage: “Build Lots of Smaller Mosques”
UKIP Leader Voiced His Support During Campaign Trip To DudleyNigel Farage has said he would rather there were many small mosques in Dudley instead of one 'Super Mosque'.
The UKIP leader made the comment during a General Election campaign visit...
Former UKIP MEP Starts Legal Proceedings
Asks Party to Withdraw Unfound Allegations
A former UKIP MEP who defected to the Conservative Party is to take legal action against his former political party leader, Nigel Farage.
Amjad Bashir's lawyers have written to Mr Farage asking...
My Mom Killed the Man Who Abused Her – Bullying Doesn’t Scare Me
Poverty, Abuse and a Forced Marriage – Naz Shah Is Not Your Average Politician
Intimidation and bullying tactics are some of the practices taking place during the election campaign in Bradford West. Leaving dead animals on opponent’s doorsteps is the...
