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I'm Asian and I think Jenrick is right - former Dudley College lecturer says Handsworth has become a 'ghetto'

A leading Asian academic and writer from the West Midlands has backed Robert Jenrick's controversial comments about the Handsworth area of Birmingham....

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Mark Andrews

Mark Andrews: How the decline of Corrie mirrors today's politics, Lenny's call for reparations, and David Lammy joining the Chippendales

Mark Andrews takes a wry look at the week's news In a crackdown on rogue vape shops, the Government has said all sellers of e-cigarettes will need to...

tuesday 6

Mark Andrews

Mark Andrews: How the decline of Corrie mirrors today's politics, Lenny's call for reparations, and David Lammy joining the Chippendales

Mark Andrews takes a wry look at the week's news In a crackdown on rogue vape shops, the Government has said all sellers of e-cigarettes will need to...

12.10.2025 3

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Mark Andrews: Manchester horror shows why all sides need to calm down and end the protests, plus death-trap scooters

About 1,500 protestors will converge on Trafalgar Square today to voice their support for the banned group Palestine Action. They will ignore requests...

07.10.2025 9

Mark Andrews

Mark Andrews: Manchester horror shows why all sides need to calm down and end the protests, plus death-trap scooters

About 1,500 protestors will converge on Trafalgar Square today to voice their support for the banned group Palestine Action. They will ignore requests...

05.10.2025 3

Mark Andrews

Mark Andrews: Digital ID cards, return of the closed shop, and imagine if Liz Truss was made governor of Gaza

Mark Andrews takes a wry look at the week's news Sir Tony Blair is being mooted as a possible interim leader of a postwar Gaza state. I suppose he was...

30.09.2025 6

Mark Andrews

Mark Andrews: Digital ID cards, return of the closed shop, and imagine if Liz Truss was made governor of Gaza

Mark Andrews takes a wry look at the week's news Sir Tony Blair is being mooted as a possible interim leader of a postwar Gaza state. I suppose he was...

28.09.2025 3

Mark Andrews

Mark Andrews: When the police hand 'get out of jail free' cards to the thieves

Mark Andrews takes a wry look at the week's news Ever wondered if the person sitting next to you on the bus, train or tram is up to no good? Wondered...

21.09.2025 3

Mark Andrews

Mark Andrews: When the police hand 'get out of jail free' cards to the thieves

Mark Andrews takes a wry look at the week's news Ever wondered if the person sitting next to you on the bus, train or tram is up to no good? Wondered...

21.09.2025 3

Mark Andrews

Mark Andrews: Wrist injuries for dog walkers, people who wear watches, and Charlie Kirk's shooting

Mark Andrews takes a wry look at the week's news "if you still wear a wristwatch every day, psychology says you likely have these six distinct...

14.09.2025 4

Mark Andrews

Mark Andrews: Wrist injuries for dog walkers, people who wear watches, and

Mark Andrews takes a wry look at the week's news "if you still wear a wristwatch every day, psychology says you likely have these six distinct...

14.09.2025 2

Mark Andrews

Mark Andrews: Wrist injuries for dog walkers, people who wear watches, and Charlie Kirk's shooting

Mark Andrews takes a wry look at the week's news "if you still wear a wristwatch every day, psychology says you likely have these six distinct...

14.09.2025 4

Mark Andrews

Mark Andrews: Wrist injuries for dog walkers, people who wear watches, and

Mark Andrews takes a wry look at the week's news "if you still wear a wristwatch every day, psychology says you likely have these six distinct...

14.09.2025 2

Mark Andrews

Mark Andrews: There's not place like Hove for Angela Rayner, and the puzzle of Dyson's new vacuum cleaners

Mark Andrews takes a wry look at the week's news I wonder if the demise of Angela Rayner's career came down to a simple problem with communication?...

07.09.2025 7

Mark Andrews

Mark Andrews: There's not place like Hove for Angela Rayner, and the puzzle of Dyson's new vacuum cleaners

Mark Andrews takes a wry look at the week's news I wonder if the demise of Angela Rayner's career came down to a simple problem with communication?...

07.09.2025 8

Mark Andrews

As the football transfer window slams shut, the wheeler-dealing starts at Westminster

The window 'slams shut' on the football transfer market, as every pundit is obliged to say, ending months of speculation of who will be in or out, and...

04.09.2025 10

Mark Andrews

Mark Andrews: Fly the flag, but do it respectfully. Don't turn zebra crossings into a political battleground

I'm a flag flier. St George's Day, VE Day, the coronation, anyone who knows me will tell you how I love flying flags - outside the house, from the...

31.08.2025 4

Mark Andrews

Mark Andrews: Fly the flag, but do it respectfully. And don't turn zebra crossings into a political battleground.

I'm a flag flier. St George's Day, VE Day, the coronation, anyone who knows me will tell you how I love flying flags - outside the house, from the...

31.08.2025 4

Mark Andrews

Mark Andrews: Fly the flag, but do it respectfully. Don't turn zebra crossings into a political battleground

I'm a flag flier. St George's Day, VE Day, the coronation, anyone who knows me will tell you how I love flying flags - outside the house, from the...

31.08.2025 3

Mark Andrews

Mark Andrews: Fly the flag, but do it respectfully. And don't turn zebra crossings into a political battleground.

I'm a flag flier. St George's Day, VE Day, the coronation, anyone who knows me will tell you how I love flying flags - outside the house, from the...

31.08.2025 3

Mark Andrews

Mark Andrews: Martin Shaw's Professional regrets, the planned property tax, and where to house asylum seekers

Mark Andrews takes a wry look at the week's news Looks like the Bell Hotel ruling has left the Home Office in a bit of a pickle. Ministers have got...

24.08.2025 4

Mark Andrews

Mark Andrews::Martin Shaw's Professional regrets, the planned property tax, and where to house asylum seekers

Mark Andrews takes a wry look at the week's news Looks like the Bell Hotel ruling has left the Home Office in a bit of a pickle. Ministers have got...

24.08.2025 3

Mark Andrews

Mark Andrews: Martin Shaw's Professional regrets, the planned property tax, and where to house asylum seekers

Mark Andrews takes a wry look at the week's news Looks like the Bell Hotel ruling has left the Home Office in a bit of a pickle. Ministers have got...

24.08.2025 2

Mark Andrews

Mark Andrews::Martin Shaw's Professional regrets, the planned property tax, and where to house asylum seekers

Mark Andrews takes a wry look at the week's news Looks like the Bell Hotel ruling has left the Home Office in a bit of a pickle. Ministers have got...

24.08.2025 5

Mark Andrews

Mark Andrews: Jog on! This is why the police don't have the resources to catch shoplifters

Mark Andrews takes a wry look at the week's news I never thought I would say this, but I'm actually thinking of moving to Surrey. I always imagined it...

17.08.2025 4

Mark Andrews

Mark Andrews: Jog on! This is why the police don't have the resources to catch shoplifters

Mark Andrews takes a wry look at the week's news I never thought I would say this, but I'm actually thinking of moving to Surrey. I always imagined it...

17.08.2025 5

Mark Andrews

Mark Andrews: Jellied eels or Greggs, guvnor? Civil service recruitment policy is patronising and unfair

In future, all Whitehall interns must come from working-class backgrounds, says Pat McFadden, the Black Country MP and PM's right-hand man. If only...

09.08.2025 7

Mark Andrews

Mark Andrews: Jellied eels or Greggs, guvnor? Civil service recruitment policy is patronising and unfair

In future, all Whitehall interns must come from working-class backgrounds, says Pat McFadden, the Black Country MP and PM's right-hand man. If only...

09.08.2025 6

Mark Andrews

Mark Andrews:: Youngsters leaving Britain, end of the road for Jaguar boss, and why the Lionesses remind me of low-alcohol beer

Mark Andrews takes a wry look at the week's news I've got my tin hat on as I write this, and know I am opening a can of worms. But I have a confession...

03.08.2025 5

Mark Andrews

Mark Andrews:: Youngsters leaving Britain, end of the road for Jaguar boss, and why the Lionesses remind me of low-alcohol beer

Mark Andrews takes a wry look at the week's news I've got my tin hat on as I write this, and know I am opening a can of worms. But I have a confession...

03.08.2025 5

Mark Andrews

Full steam ahead as thousands flock to Severn Valley Railway

Forgive the pun, but it was a truly moving occasion. The thousands of happy faces as the Severn Valley was able to fully reopen after the attraction's...

30.07.2025 7

Mark Andrews

How much longer are people expected to wait for a driving test?

It used to be one of the great milestones in the coming of age. Every teenager yearned for their 17th birthday, when they would be finally old enough...

30.07.2025 5

Mark Andrews

Mark Andrews: Doctors saved my life, but I can't back their pay claim - and Jeremy channels the Listening Bank

Mark Andrews takes a wry look at the week's news Dr Ross Nieuwoudt, one of the ringleaders of the doctors' strike, is demanding a 29 per cent pay...

27.07.2025 5

Mark Andrews

Mark Andrews: Doctors saved my life, but I can't back their pay claim - and Jeremy channels the Listening Bank

Mark Andrews takes a wry look at the week's news Dr Ross Nieuwoudt, one of the ringleaders of the doctors' strike, is demanding a 29 per cent pay...

27.07.2025 5

Mark Andrews

Mark Andrews: Prime Minister targets the Inbetweeners vote, Diane puts her foot in it, and 'protected characteristics' for the armed forces

Mark Andrews takes a wry look at the week's news After u-turning on winter-fuel payments, ripping up his tax pledges, and kicking his welfare cuts...

20.07.2025 3

Mark Andrews

Mark Andrews: Prime Minister targets the Inbetweeners vote, Diane puts her foot in it, and 'protected characteristics' for the armed forces

Mark Andrews takes a wry look at the week's news After u-turning on winter-fuel payments, ripping up his tax pledges, and kicking his welfare cuts...

20.07.2025 3

Mark Andrews

Mark Andrews: Gregg's underwear dilemma, why we will never see another Norman Tebbit, and how July 7, 2005 changed the country forever

Mark Andrews takes a wry look at the week's news So farewell Gregg Wallace, everyone's favourite celebrity cockney greengrocer, sacked by the BBC...

13.07.2025 5

Mark Andrews

Mark Andrews: Gregg's underwear dilemma, why we will never see another Norman Tebbit, and how July 7, 2005 changed the country forever

Mark Andrews takes a wry look at the week's news So farewell Gregg Wallace, everyone's favourite celebrity cockney greengrocer, sacked by the BBC...

13.07.2025 4

Mark Andrews

Benefits Street: The West Midlands neighbourhoods where 1 in 8 people claim disability benefits, and those with the lowest rates

Walsall, Sandwell and Telford are the disability hotspots of the West Midlands, with one in eight people claiming benefits. ...

08.07.2025 8

Mark Andrews

Mark Andrews: Free cars, a bad finger, and wait until the robots start rocking up in Calais

Mark Andrews takes a wry look at the week's news It might be time to start looking through the car brochures. I don't really need another car, I've...

06.07.2025 3

Mark Andrews

Mark Andrews: Free cars, a bad finger, and wait until the robots start rocking up in Calais

Mark Andrews takes a wry look at the week's news It might be time to start looking through the car brochures. I don't really need another car, I've...

06.07.2025 3

Mark Andrews

Mark Andrews: Ghanaian drunkards get my vote, and why Marks & Spencer closure should serve as a wake-up call for our dying town centres

Mark Andrews takes a wry look at the week's news I'm not normally a fan of protest movements, at least not in free, liberal democracies where the...

29.06.2025 3

Mark Andrews

Mark Andrews: Ghanaian drunkards get my vote, and why Marks & Spencer closure should serve as a wake-up call for our dying town centres

Mark Andrews takes a wry look at the week's news I'm not normally a fan of protest movements, at least not in free, liberal democracies where the...

29.06.2025 4

Mark Andrews

Mark Andrews: 'Daddy' Trump, Kemi's secret hope, and the scandal of Michael Gove's pyjamas

After days of speculation about how much damage the US airstrikes actually caused to Iran's nuclear capabilities, Iran has now 'admitted' it was...

28.06.2025 5

Mark Andrews

Mark Andrews: 'Daddy' Trump, Kemi's secret hope, and the scandal of Michael Gove's pyjamas

After days of speculation about how much damage the US airstrikes actually caused to Iran's nuclear capabilities, Iran has now 'admitted' it was...

28.06.2025 6

Mark Andrews

Mark Andrews: A refreshing waste of public money, and crowds swarm to noodle bar

Don't get too excited, but something very special is going to happen. Sometime this month - so presumably between now and Tuesday - the new-look...

27.06.2025 7

Mark Andrews

Mark Andrews: A refreshing waste of public money, and crowds swarm to noodle bar

Don't get too excited, but something very special is going to happen. Sometime this month - so presumably between now and Tuesday - the new-look...

27.06.2025 3

Mark Andrews

Mark Andrews: Naked bike rides, and why Palestine Action are idiots but not terrorists

There are plenty of names I can think of for the idiots who broke into RAF Brize Norton and daubed paint over two RAF planes. Watch more of our videos...

26.06.2025 3

Mark Andrews

Mark Andrews: Naked bike rides, and why Palestine Action are idiots but not terrorists

There are plenty of names I can think of for the idiots who broke into RAF Brize Norton and daubed paint over two RAF planes. Watch more of our videos...

26.06.2025 3

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Mark Andrews: Time running out for 'supreme leader', barking-mad doggy treats, and why bombing political prisoners is reprehensible

Almost two thirds of Britain’s 22 million pet owners celebrate their animal’s birthday, a study found, spending an average of £121 a time.. Watch...

25.06.2025 3

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I'm Asian and I think Jenrick is right - former Dudley College lecturer says Handsworth has become a 'ghetto'

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Mark Andrews: How the decline of Corrie mirrors today's politics, Lenny's call for reparations, and David Lammy joining the Chippendales

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Mark Andrews: How the decline of Corrie mirrors today's politics, Lenny's call for reparations, and David Lammy joining the Chippendales

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Mark Andrews: Manchester horror shows why all sides need to calm down and end the protests, plus death-trap scooters

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Mark Andrews: Manchester horror shows why all sides need to calm down and end the protests, plus death-trap scooters

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Mark Andrews: Digital ID cards, return of the closed shop, and imagine if Liz Truss was made governor of Gaza

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Mark Andrews: Digital ID cards, return of the closed shop, and imagine if Liz Truss was made governor of Gaza

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Mark Andrews: When the police hand 'get out of jail free' cards to the thieves

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Mark Andrews: When the police hand 'get out of jail free' cards to the thieves

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Mark Andrews: Wrist injuries for dog walkers, people who wear watches, and Charlie Kirk's shooting

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Mark Andrews: Wrist injuries for dog walkers, people who wear watches, and

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Mark Andrews: Wrist injuries for dog walkers, people who wear watches, and Charlie Kirk's shooting

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Mark Andrews: Wrist injuries for dog walkers, people who wear watches, and

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Mark Andrews: There's not place like Hove for Angela Rayner, and the puzzle of Dyson's new vacuum cleaners

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Mark Andrews: There's not place like Hove for Angela Rayner, and the puzzle of Dyson's new vacuum cleaners

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As the football transfer window slams shut, the wheeler-dealing starts at Westminster

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Mark Andrews: Fly the flag, but do it respectfully. Don't turn zebra crossings into a political battleground

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Mark Andrews: Fly the flag, but do it respectfully. And don't turn zebra crossings into a political battleground.

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Mark Andrews: Fly the flag, but do it respectfully. Don't turn zebra crossings into a political battleground

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Mark Andrews: Fly the flag, but do it respectfully. And don't turn zebra crossings into a political battleground.

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Mark Andrews: Martin Shaw's Professional regrets, the planned property tax, and where to house asylum seekers

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Mark Andrews::Martin Shaw's Professional regrets, the planned property tax, and where to house asylum seekers

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Mark Andrews: Martin Shaw's Professional regrets, the planned property tax, and where to house asylum seekers

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Mark Andrews::Martin Shaw's Professional regrets, the planned property tax, and where to house asylum seekers

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Mark Andrews: Jog on! This is why the police don't have the resources to catch shoplifters

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Mark Andrews: Jog on! This is why the police don't have the resources to catch shoplifters

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Mark Andrews: Jellied eels or Greggs, guvnor? Civil service recruitment policy is patronising and unfair

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Mark Andrews: Jellied eels or Greggs, guvnor? Civil service recruitment policy is patronising and unfair

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Mark Andrews:: Youngsters leaving Britain, end of the road for Jaguar boss, and why the Lionesses remind me of low-alcohol beer

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Mark Andrews:: Youngsters leaving Britain, end of the road for Jaguar boss, and why the Lionesses remind me of low-alcohol beer

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Full steam ahead as thousands flock to Severn Valley Railway

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How much longer are people expected to wait for a driving test?

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Mark Andrews: Doctors saved my life, but I can't back their pay claim - and Jeremy channels the Listening Bank

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Mark Andrews: Doctors saved my life, but I can't back their pay claim - and Jeremy channels the Listening Bank

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Mark Andrews: Prime Minister targets the Inbetweeners vote, Diane puts her foot in it, and 'protected characteristics' for the armed forces

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Mark Andrews: Prime Minister targets the Inbetweeners vote, Diane puts her foot in it, and 'protected characteristics' for the armed forces

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Mark Andrews: Gregg's underwear dilemma, why we will never see another Norman Tebbit, and how July 7, 2005 changed the country forever

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Mark Andrews: Gregg's underwear dilemma, why we will never see another Norman Tebbit, and how July 7, 2005 changed the country forever

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Benefits Street: The West Midlands neighbourhoods where 1 in 8 people claim disability benefits, and those with the lowest rates