There's always someone worse off than you...

10:57am Friday 18th July 2008

MANY years ago I left a Christmas Eve party in London and and found that my car had been broken into and all the presents I had bought for my family and friends had been stolen.

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We have abysmally failed our young people

12:12pm Friday 11th July 2008

IT IS a perplexing time, observing our young moving from childhood into the world that we have fashioned for them. And I use those last words advisedly. It is the world that we have created that they now inherit.

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Listening to the views of the ignorant is a turn-off

2:21pm Friday 4th July 2008

IT USED to be the case that the airing of extreme and ill-informed opinions was restricted to a group of cronies propping up the bar in the local pub or cabbies projecting their world view pronouncements over their shoulders, as caricatured in the movies of decades past.

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Treasure Family GPs while you still have them

11:17am Friday 27th June 2008

WHEN I was a lad, the previous generation were always telling us how tough things were when they were young - and how lucky we were to be living in an era where things were getting better every day.

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Shop lays bare why it bans naked dummies

1:48pm Friday 20th June 2008

I VOWED that I wouldn't revisit the world of jobsworths and political correctness again for a while, but sometimes the best intentions of your columnist are thwarted by circumstances that are too compelling to resist.

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Miller's tale is so unfair on David Tennant

11:47pm Friday 13th June 2008

SIR Jonathan Miller has complained that West End theatres put celebrity ahead of quality. He bemoans the fact that producers won't back ventures that don't have star names.

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Gordon - stop us from being a basket case

1:20pm Friday 6th June 2008

IN MY self-appointed role as scourge of the jobsworth and the politically correct, I update you on the latest excesses of those grey people that inhabit some bleak parallel universe. Not that my denunciation will have much effect until we man the barricades of reason and pull down their ivory towers - how's that for a mixed metaphor?

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Whay are banks still stuck in the Dark Ages?

2:13pm Friday 30th May 2008

I FIRST realised that the banking system wasn't philanthropic 30 odd years ago when, after years of my being in credit, my bank bounced a cheque, citing "insufficient funds."

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Resignation of Paul Lambert was a bitter blow

7:05pm Thursday 22nd May 2008

FOR those of us for whom Wycombe Wanderers are an important part of our lives, it has come as a bitter blow to learn of the abrupt departure of Paul Lambert.

School league tables are not the answer

8:26pm Thursday 15th May 2008

SATS testing has been under scrutiny in the media in the wake of the report of a House of Commons' committee in the week that pupils countrywide have been taking the tests.

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