Star comment: We need action now to prevent fatal knife crime victims like Wolverhampton schoolboy Ronan Kanda
'Black Country battered chips were the best I've ever tasted!' Visitor explains why he loves our local delicacy
'We are angry and worried' – West Midlands people have their say on the cut in winter fuel payments for pensionersPlus
Mark Andrews: Smoking ban makes dystopian fiction a reality, and why it means we will eventually end up paying reparations for slavery
'Gone has gone the sunlit uplands tone optimist Boris Johnson' – Toby Neal on doom-monger Keir Starmer
Mark Andrews – Butcher's beef about human rights, laptops in prison, and more traffic restrictions on the way
Peter Rhodes on Stonehenge, a “golden age” of education and what will become of the battle of the sexes?Plus
Peter Rhodes on soaring insurance, a galactic conspiracy and after the jailings, how long before the appeals?Plus
Peter Rhodes on pongy pooches, terminating Twickers and the case for an inquiry into this week's mayhemPlus
Peter Rhodes on Keir's honeymoon, a law to protect Islam and British military kit – from Russia with risksPlus
Mark Andrews: 21st century ethics, Piglets, bigots and why it might be time for the voice of progressive Britain to eat a bit of humble pie
Express and Star Opinion: Those that caused trouble in Southport after three girls killed crossed a moral line
