
Harry Clarke-Ezzidio
Policy Reporter at The New Statesman
Policy Correspondent, @NewStatesman. Covering social affairs | 📩 [email protected] | boo-urns twitter
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1 week ago |
newstatesman.com | Harry Clarke-Ezzidio
To truly understand the impact of child poverty in Birmingham, the best place to go is Ladywood. Sitting to the west of the city centre, research from 2008 identified this area as having the highest percentage of children who live in poverty of any parliamentary constituency. A newspaper report from the time depicts the situation on the ground for locals: “I’d rather starve than let them go hungry,” a father who was out of work said of his girlfriend and their 12-month-old daughter.
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2 weeks ago |
newstatesman.com | Harry Clarke-Ezzidio
Is it fitting, or tragic, that European football’s second-tier competition would come to rescue the dismal footballing seasons of Manchester United or Tottenham Hotspur? After record-poor domestic campaigns in the Premier League era – United sit 16th and Tottenham 17th in the table – the two contested the Europa League final in Bilbao yesterday (May 21). Beleaguered fans of both had dubbed the encounter – which Spurs won, 1-0 – as “the Battle of Mid”, and even “El Crappico”.
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3 weeks ago |
newstatesman.com | Harry Clarke-Ezzidio
After losing the election to become the Conservative mayor of the West Midlands last May – had he won, it would have been his third term – Andy Street has barely been seen in public life. “I had a little rest and good holidays,” Street, an effulgent yet spiky figure, told me when we met in Birmingham city centre recently.
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1 month ago |
newstatesman.com | Harry Clarke-Ezzidio
There’s been a lot of trash talk about Birmingham recently. Most obviously, a strike by the city council’s refuse workers, now in its fifth week, has filled the streets with sweaty black bin liners. The accumulated rubbish has now reached thousands of tonnes.
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2 months ago |
newstatesman.com | Harry Clarke-Ezzidio
It was billed as the “biggest political rally in history”. But as its 6.30pm start time drew near, it became clear that Reform UK’s local-election campaign launch at Birmingham’s Utilita Arena on Friday (28 March) was going to reflect its true position: an insurgent party on the verge of civil war.
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