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Kate Knowles

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  • The future of Birmingham’s symphony orchestra is uncertain. Can grime help?

    1 week ago | birminghamdispatch.co.uk | Kate Knowles

    In 2015, UK grime made an explosive return to the mainstream. Artists achieved global recognition and started climbing the charts. And as the year edged to a close, Birmingham MC, Lady Leshurr (government name: Melesha Katrina O'Garro), released the fourth part in a musical series cheekily titled ‘Queen’s Speech’.

  • Infighting, austerity, opportunism: this is the tale of Birmingham’s decline | Kate Knowles

    2 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Kate Knowles

    I was recently standing on a picket line at Birmingham’s largest waste depot with a case of deja vu. “We are massively underfunded. It does need changing,” Lee, a bin worker and union rep, told me. But the council’s current offer to end the strike isn’t good enough, he said. If it cuts wages the way it wants to, “people will lose their homes”. We’ve been here before.

  • Is this millionaire councillor lying about his address?

    2 weeks ago | birminghamdispatch.co.uk | Kate Knowles

    I’m sitting in an Air BnB bedroom, trying to decide if I should finally start watching Severance, when I hear a key turn in the front door downstairs. I freeze, hunched over my laptop as feet ascend, the unknown visitor getting closer with each step. True, the flat I’m staying in has two bedrooms to rent, but the friendly man who let me in earlier assured me that no one else was booked in tonight. Who could it be?

  • The council says striking bin workers are violent. The union says that's rubbish.

    4 weeks ago | birminghamdispatch.co.uk | Kate Knowles

    The sun rises above a Birmingham tip; striking workers crowd in front of the gates. A nearby speaker blares 90s rnb music and cups of tea and sausage baps are handed round. The scene is jovial. That is, until a group of men (number undisclosed) wearing balaclavas emerge, firing missiles (material undisclosed) at those assembled. If this seems like a scene out of a slightly odd, very low budget movie, that’s because it could well be fiction.

  • Ancestral land owners, gangster pop stars and everything in between

    1 month ago | birminghamdispatch.co.uk | Kate Knowles

    Ancestral land owners, gangster pop stars and everything in between Isabella Calthorpe with her husband Sam Branson and father-in-law, the billionaire Richard Branson, at Wimbledon in 2015. Photo: Karwai Tang/WireImage/Getty. An editor’s edition from Kate

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Kate Knowles
Kate Knowles @pennycenturyy
10 Apr 25

Another day, another opinion on the bins! This one is from me for @guardianopinion https://t.co/ut2rBJ5Pwq

Kate Knowles
Kate Knowles @pennycenturyy
9 Apr 25

RT @McilhaggaSamuel: Read my colleague @pennycenturyy talking to the @guardian about Birmingham's bin strikes. Is there any exit from equal…

Kate Knowles
Kate Knowles @pennycenturyy
27 Mar 25

RT @brumdispatch: The council says striking bin workers have been violent. Where's the evidence? https://t.co/gRVI80mHo1