‘I don’t blame customers for getting annoyed’: a coffee house owner on life without EU workers
17/11/2021
Anas Zein Al-Abdeen owns a chain of four Middle Eastern coffee houses around Birmingham. But, the 40-year-old says, while customers are plentiful, staff are another matter.
In Birmingham, the ‘city of a thousand trades’, Brexit is endangering a modern-day renaissance
01/04/2019
England’s second most populous city was revived by EU money but voted to leave the bloc, in a pattern that has become all too familiar, says Patrick Cockburn.