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Run it up a flagpole and see if it really is patriotic

Run it up a flagpole and see if it really is patriotic

As flags spring up across the city, some speak of national pride. Others cry racism. Birmingham council just wants to tear them down…

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‘Why I left my family home in Alum Rock behind’

Writer Kasim Ali is one of the few members of the community he grew up with in Birmingham’s Alum Rock to have left – and his family can’t understand why. He attempts to explain


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