The excellent result in Dunfermline shows that we are making further progress against Labour. In Birmingham that is good news for the Lib Dems in Yardley, Hodge Hill, Hall Green, Ladywood and Perry Barr each of which is a clear Lib Dem/Labour battleground.
Why are babies born young? This sounds like an odd question. People would say "of course babies are born young". However, this goes to the core of the question of human (or animal) development. Why is it that as time passes people develop initially through puberty and then for women through menopause and more generally getting diseases such as sarcopenia, osteoporosis, diabetes and cancer, but most of the time babies start showing no signs of this. Lots of research into this has happened over the years and now I think it is clear why this is. It raises some interesting questions. Biological youth is about how well a cell functions. Cells that are old in a biological sense don't work that well. One of the ways in which cells stop working is they fail to produce the full range of proteins. Generally the proteins that are produced from longer genes stop being produced. The reason for this relates to how the Genes work (the Genome). Because the genome is not gettin...
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In any event we have about twice as many people going the other way which may not be such a big press story, but impacts on election support.
Hodge Hill - 5449 majority
Hall Green - 5714 majority (LDs in third place, 10,000 votes behind the winner)
Perry Barr - 7948 majority
Yardley - 2672 between LD and Labour.
I've not run the detailed figures for the new ward structure, but I doubt it will make any huge difference. Out of those, only one is a battleground in any true sense.
Bring it on.