Hello @andy4wm For the Invictus Games can we make sure there are not teenage agency workers not being forced to work 6am to midnight on minimum wage with unpaid breaks! Behind the gleaming events is corporate greed + exploitation which is a shocking indictment on Birmingham

Full day of admin today as hours of being on hold to banks, various council departments, solicitors, USA embassy, estate agents. Lost phone + number created a Kafkaesque two step authentication nightmare, holding up house sale + getting US media visa for Nov midterms. #Ballache

In danger of sounding like a "if u've done nothing wrong uve nothing to worry about" div... As someone who recently homed a vulnerable homeless man, noone in Brum should be homeless. HMO companies are lining to get £1,200 plus a month housing benefit for a room! #R4Today

Fair play to @andyburnham for trying to eradicate #homelessness but due to disastrous Care in the Community mental health policy means it's almost impossible to achieve zero rough sleepers. Mistaking begging "tappers" as homeless is another problem #R4today

Do you remember when you joined X? I do! #MyXAnniversary Blimey - started as an account for my charity PR job as like so many other things in my life I lost log-ins for @HardNewsAdam - amazingly somehow @stevezacharanda is still active whereas beloved Facebook account lost

First Stokeless test, only English cricket could lose our captain + best player over a nightclub visit. Anyone "let down" + blarted about a grown man having a tot are to blame for the gaping world class hole in our line up. Whole scandal was overblown by idiotic #ECB

Several of the agency staff who ensured The European Athletics Championships was a success in Perry Barr were being forced to work from 6am until midnight! An 18 hour shift with unpaid 2 30min breaks + an hour. Staff, some 16, on minimum wage being exploited for overpriced sport!

#Birmingham2026 I've got a six day parking pass for a spot 500 metres from Alexempty Stadium............

Maybe telling people nearest parking is Bescot in Walsall is putting people off #birmingham2026

So according to Midlands Today #Birmingham2026 "has caught the imagination" but we at saft. Thousands of empty seats say it all, if tonight is empty then someone needs to be sacked. Embarrassing. Then again Birchfield Harriers couldn't even afford to get in their own stadium

For that one hotdog you can get a mixed grill at Church Tavern

Yep, that's the Midlands Daily News Journalist of the Year hawking his residents parking permit for #Birmingham2026 holding a can of cider before 1pm on a Monday ....

I tell you what would be great for #birmingham2026 visitors to Perry Barr is a Boxpark! Remember that broken Commonwealth Games promise to Perry Barricans @BhamCityCouncil ???

How much is the food at #birmingham2026 please

Thanks for ruining my news detox @stevezacharanda as I recalibrate my daily news sense bashoutability to the more strategic style of writing books. But, it's only stopped spinning after my beloved once Mighty HN didn't splash on discovery of Phil Lynett's Rowley Regis house

Cut-through quality political commentary right here..... But surely LABRATS or LABRAPOODANGLES?