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Maureen Messent

Sordid story of vice does not ring a Belle

THE most brilliant are often naive. Hence the bemusing news that an academically soaring research scientist is the woman who wrote the diary of prostitute Belle Du Jour.Read

Bunch of airhead grab-alls

IN BIRMINGHAM, as in other cities across the country, young women queued overnight last weekend to be among the first to buy half-price Jimmy Choo designer shoes and handbags.Read

Values are all wrong

I MENTIONED earlier our sexual liberalisation.Read

Maureen Messent

Living in a spied-on society

COMMUNISM flowered because the populace were spied-on by fanatical police and informants, anxious to prove their worth by reporting lax comrades.Read

Maureen Messent

‘Honkers’ just office banter

HAVE women lost all humour, wit and feistiness now they’ve won the right to high earnings commensurate with their male colleagues?Read

Maureen Messent

Brown sniped at with shabby little outburst

REMEMBER how, in The Tale of Two Cities, a vengeful coven sat beneath the guillotine to work the names of beheaded aristocrats into their knitting?Read

Baffled by claims

CRIES of “institutional racism” rose from the public gallery when black footballer Marlon King was jailed for 18 months for punching a woman in the mouth at a London club.Read

Questions raised by Pope offer

HOW extremely discourteous my Pope has been.Read

Maureen Messent

Take more water girls . .

I’VE long believed the date-rape phenomenon of allegedly sex-crazed males doctoring the drinks of mild-mannered virgins to render them incapable of resisting is 99.9 per cent feminist baloney.Read

Maureen Messent

Couple foolish to leave dry land

THOSE damned old fools, the yachting Chandlers, should be forbidden to leave dry land again once they are back in Britain.Read

Maureen Messent

Don’t point finger at the most vulnerable

A DOWN’S Syndrome lad I know is a superbly fit amateur athlete.Read

Maureen Messent: A replacement BNP could be much worse

WELL, that should be it. With Nick Griffin having stumbled and dissembled before nine million viewers, the BNP will disappear.Read

Maureen Messent

A replacement BNP could be much worse

WELL, that should be it. With Nick Griffin having stumbled and dissembled before nine million viewers, the BNP will disappear.Read

Why this obsession with poo?

I THOUGHT, on the first day of letters to this newspaper reviling cats for defecating in neighbouring gardens, that readers were pulling our legs.Read

Partners on board, not bed

GOOD on Crown Court Judge George Bathurst-Norman who exploded when he found a probation officer using that vacuous “partner” to describe a husband or wife.Read

Food parcels for old

AT THE end of Eid, the Islamic months of fasting and repentance, a group of young people from the Hazrat Sultan Bahu mosque in Balsall Heath, handed out over 100 little food parcels to pensioners of all races in their locality.Read

Maureen Messent

First OAP whinge of winter

PREDICTABLE, isn’t it? With the first nip in the air, our pensioners take to Birmingham city centre for a whinge.Read

Maureen Messent

No easy access on Snowdon

HO, ho, ho! So a clutch of Coventry climbers, martial arts experts all, ditched their disabled mate on Snowdon because they found his wheelchair too heavy to cart up with them.Read

Maureen Messent

Terrible TV you can not switch off

I WATCHED The X Factor in mesmerised horror. Any TV this bad is unmissable.Read

Maureen Messent

Drunk student did not intend any disrespect

HOW precious we’re becoming. How easily we get the hump. How we enjoy taking umbrage.Read