Birmingham Mail - Birmingham Mail Columnists - David Bell

If you think this year is bad just wait for 2010 . . .

Birmingham Mail — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 08:34:00 GMT

THIS is a red letter day for the average West Midlands taxpayer. It is the beginning of the first week in which he starts working for himself and his family.

Our PM’s rapidly losing touch with reality

Birmingham Mail — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 07:45:00 GMT

A man dies and goes to Heaven. On a giant wall behind St Peter he sees millions and millions of clocks, all showing different times of day.

Time to clamp down on parking menace

Birmingham Mail — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 07:50:00 GMT

WE are spied on by CCTV cameras everywhere we go.

Devil’s in the detail with these flawed schemes

Birmingham Mail — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 07:53:00 GMT

WITH 75,000 families expected to have their homes repossessed this year, you would think that the Government’s £285 million mortgage rescue scheme could not fail.

European Parliament gravy train is an even worse scandal

Birmingham Mail — Sun, 31 May 2009 23:00:00 GMT

THROWING more cash at MPs won’t make them behave any better.

Sitting pretty as our troops are dying

Birmingham Mail — Mon, 25 May 2009 09:25:00 GMT

IT is marketed as the most comfortable office chair in the world so, as you’d expect, it isn’t cheap.

Give rotten Parliamentary orchard a prune

Birmingham Mail — Mon, 18 May 2009 07:45:00 GMT

THEY are blaming the system when its guiding rule couldn’t be clearer.

Forget swine flu, look at the hospitals

Birmingham Mail — Mon, 11 May 2009 07:46:00 GMT

REMEMBER the Millennium Bug? We were warned that aircraft would fall from the sky when computers crashed at midnight on December 31, 1999. Nothing happened.

Tax hike is the last straw for Sir Michael

Birmingham Mail — Mon, 04 May 2009 07:26:00 GMT

“WE have three and a half million layabouts on benefits and I am 76 and getting up at 6am to go to work and keep them.”

Electric car stunt lacks real power

Birmingham Mail — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 07:47:00 GMT

YOU probably spotted those posed snaps of Lord Mandelson and wooden-faced Geoff Hoon spinning around a track in an electric car that doesn’t exist.

IT’s just a complete Govt disaster

Birmingham Mail — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 08:50:00 GMT

GOVERNMENT is so institutionally incompetent that the less it does, the better.

I’m not mad about MPs’ priorities

Birmingham Mail — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 07:48:00 GMT

“BEFORE we ask anyone else to give, we in this Government must examine our own costs. Those of us in politics have been entrusted with great privilege by the people. We must lead by example.”

Time to plug this expenses loophole

Birmingham Mail — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 09:54:00 GMT

THE abuse of a dodgy expenses system by MPs has for many years been a boil ripe for lancing.

Saving the world? No, wasting £50m

Birmingham Mail — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 11:25:00 GMT

IT looks like being one of the most expensive publicity stunts in history.

It’s a promised land for the workshy

Birmingham Mail — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 10:13:00 GMT

IN AUSTRALIA, immigration policy is decided on the basis of what best helps the country.

You’re watched – every step you take!

Birmingham Mail — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 09:54:00 GMT

EVERY move you make. Every step you take. I’ll be watching you.

One of many very public scandals

Birmingham Mail — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 08:41:00 GMT

TWO placards have appeared outside the Edinburgh home of the worst banker in the world.

PM has to unite party before election

Birmingham Mail — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 08:51:00 GMT

DO YOU think Gordon will venture a peak at the dramatisation of the Iron Lady’s final days of power?

Ms Smith could be taught a lesson

Birmingham Mail — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 10:19:00 GMT

WHEN William Gladstone was Prime Minister he even bought all his own postage stamps.

Birth-rate nonsense needs killing off

Birmingham Mail — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 08:57:00 GMT

BARELY a day goes by before another unelected quack is hectoring us to change our lifestyle.