Our streets are overrun with criminality linked to these properties, and the housing benefit team descends further into chaos ...

A dispatch from the UK’s capital of decline ...

That means for just £5 more than a regular ticket, you get entry to our event and a whole month of our independent Birmingham ...

Lawrence Barton's era of the Gay Village is ending. How successful was it? February, 2012. German disco group Boney M dance on the stage, head to toe in matching metallic outfits. A sweaty crowd jumps ...

We've got a very exciting announcement... Huge news, readers: today we can announce that we have partnered with Postcode Lottery to fund 150 annual subscriptions to The Dispatch for 16-25 year olds.

Jez Collins. Background: art works in EVERYTHING MUST GO, photographed by Tom Bird. Forget the culture wars, our biggest gallery is drastically underfunded We recently published an article by Dan Cave ...

Dear readers — we hope you had a great weekend. Welcome back, and an especially warm hello to the new members who joined our ranks over the past seven days. Thanks to you, we not only reached our goal ...

Drums beat, and a trumpet sounds as amassing crowds ready themselves for the charge. It’s not quite a fife, but the tempo of ‘Hey Ya!’ is enough to prepare for the year’s largest single day of ...

Original illustration by Jake Greenhalgh. The Art.Quarter founder has been accused of ‘threatening’ and ‘inappropriate’ behaviour Jordan Patel is feeling reflective. Sitting on a couch in his ...

Criticism of BMAG earlier this year got the city’s hackles up, but is it time we started demanding more of our biggest gallery? This week, we’re trying to get The Dispatch to 2,000 members. This is a ...