By Professor John Clancy and David Bailey Aside from the need for the March 31st Birmingham City Council Accounts to be published immediately, at least as they affect the Pension Fund, here’s what needs to happen now: All of Birmingham’s MPs and the combined authority mayor Richard Parker need to ask for an emergency meeting with ..read more

· If you think you knew why Birmingham City Council went bust, think again. · Could Birmingham actually un-bust itself overnight (and halt the cuts) at the stroke of the Deputy Prime Minister’s pen? · Did the council unnecessarily hand over almost £0.6 Billion? And could it recover it, and probably even more, back into ..read more

Professor John Clancy and David Bailey Ten years ago last April I published a book The Secret Wealth Garden (Clancy, J. (2014) Birmingham: 5th Way press) which identified the huge wealth sitting in the then 100 or so local government pension pots around the UK. The system was entirely dysfunctional, designed to maximise fees for ..read more

Ferry Biedermann The dollar and ‘the markets’ were buoyed by the victory of Donald Trump in the US. In the UK, the pound tanked after Labour’s first budget at the end of October, before completely recovering a few days later. What do both these developments tell us? Having some experience in financial journalism, I can ..read more

By Dr. Bertha Dzifa Kumodji BBA, MBA, Ph.D., MBAM, MIoL, ASSOC MAPM, MSHRM, MCIPD, FCIHRM, CMgr MCMI HR & Recruitment, Workforce and Organisational Development, The Royal Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham – UK Researcher, The Centre for Brexit Studies, Birmingham City University Business School, Birmingham – UK As the UK navigates the choppy waters of the 21st century, the ..read more

– Vicky Pryce, Senior Fellow, BCU Centre for Brexit Studies The budget presented by Rachel Reeves on October 30, the first ever by a female Chancellor,  was momentous in its size whichever way you look at it- £40b of tax increases, an extra £30b a year of borrowing between now and 2029/30, a massive injection into public ..read more

Vicky Pryce,  Senior Fellow, BCU Centre for Brexit Studies The IMF is warning of world debt rising to $100 trillion in the next year or so and urging fiscal restraint. The new Labour government seems fixated in showing its determination to appear as hawkish as possible to satisfy capital markets. Germany may well end up ..read more

By Dr. Bertha Dzifa Kumodji BBA, MBA, Ph.D., MBAM, MIoL, ASSOC MAPM, MSHRM, MCIPD, FCIHRM, CMgr MCMI HR & Recruitment, Workforce and Organisational Development, The Royal Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham – UK Researcher, The Centre for Brexit Studies, Birmingham City University Business School, Birmingham – UK In the dynamic and ever-evolving landscape of employment relations ..read more

Ferry Biedermann The first summit between the EU and UK’s new Labour Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, has come and gone and as expected not much has changed. In fact, even less has changed than might have been expected, with absolutely no discernible concrete outcomes of the talks, except to keep on talking. Even Starmer’s promise ..read more

By: Nicholas Hurtado Following Labour’s victory in the UK general election this year, Prime Minister Keir Starmer was quick to signal that he was eager to better ties with the EU. Leaders from the bloc have also signaled their desire to work towards closer post-Brexit tieswith the UK. However, national leaders on both sides of the Channel have displayed repeated preferences for addressing continental challenges and achieving political aims throughunilateral and/or bilateral means ..read more