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Maureen Messent

Maureen Messent: Looking for outrage where there is none

HOW some of us seek umbrage to take, turn a thoughtless trifle into personal insult, profess outrage and hurt where none is intended.Read

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Maureen Messent: Sex and cries of racism amid a clash of cultures

WE’VE laughed at the nit-picking politically correct with their fear of perceived racism, these are the fools who gave us baa-baa white sheep and a three-year-old excluded from nursery for asking a black child: “Is your mum black, too?”Read

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Maureen Messent: Clearing out those city council cobwebs

REJOICE! A clear-out at the Council House that rids us of the seemingly self-serving Mike what’s-his-name, that leader so vital to the Birmingham electorate that he had to be booked into a four-star city centre hotel rather than return home to Warley lest international crises develop overnight.Read

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Maureen Messent: What happened to the British stiff upper lip?

ONCE our small island was known for its stiff upper lip, earthy humour with a message to carry on whatever the brickbats hurled its way.Read

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Maureen Messent: Shock tactics work as T-shirt joke hits home

STILL laughing at a Birmingham charity shop reviled on the internet for selling a T-shirt proffering advice to “F… the homeless”.Read

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Maureen Messent: We shouldn't tolerate such ignorant bigotry

LISTEN a second to London, dear old London hewn from history, home of royalty, pageantry like nowhere else in the world and, right now, a lie on its lips.Read

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Maureen Messent: Pure poetry of protest angst

Holy God! Tongue-tied Britain is rarely treated to the rhetoric spun by an American at Oxford last week.Read

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Maureen Messent: The street of shame for lusty old Ken

IS it the unexpected warmth or the proximity of a bank holiday that’s driven men to madness this week?Read

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Maureen Messent: No mystery why our white youth is failing

THERE’S no mystery, no silent neglect in schools where white teenagers are dropping behind young African-Caribbeans, Somalis and Bangladeshis.Read

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Maureen Messent: Cleric pilloried for daring to speak his mind

BRITISH Christian leaders are not, generally speaking, brave crusaders for their faith.Read

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Maureen Messent: Good riddance to human rights body

THE Equality and Human Rights Commission has cost this nation millions – no, probably billions – of pounds kidding the aggressive, the daft, the prejudiced and the useless that they can sue at the drop of a hat.Read

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Maureen Messent: Fat of the land living a big lie

EXPECT the earth to tremble over the next few months.Read

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Maureen Messent: Whitney Houston had a life and threw it away

WHITNEY Houston. Awesome voice. Abhorrent lifestyle. Her currently hysterical daughter already a drink and drug addict.Read

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Maureen Messent: Degenerate racism is ingrained

FIGHTING talk. Cameron is to call a Downing Street summit to kick football racism into touch.Read

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Why be embarrassed? Couple have hit passion jackpot

CONFRONTED by her 65-year-old father beating his chest in Alpha male mode to announce he’d impregnated his blind girlfriend 43 years his junior, daughter Kelly evicted the old ‘un from the housing association bungalow they shared in Birmingham.Read

Feeling let down by deluded womanhood

IN A week remembered as a female nadir, bottle-blonde slapper Denise Welch – drink and depression problems, over-whelming urge to flash breasts, a couple of alleged extra-marital flings – wins a reality show and announces her young son “will just have to put up with my antics”.Read

Year of Pretty Boy at Beeb

HAS the BBC designated 2012 as the Year of the Pretty Boy?Read

Made to pay for lifestyle

THE inevitable Housing Allowance, to be introduced next month, brought girly squawks from Ladywood’s Gabriella Sinclair who, at 21, has three young children and is currently on maternity leave from her job in a nursery kitchen.Read

Drama queen suffers too much for her art

FEW musings on their careers are as unintentionally hilarious as those evinced by the jobbing troupers whose names we can’t remember.Read

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Don't let the bereaved go through hell

A CLUTCH of mothers whose children died in Southampton General Hospital were told this week that their brains, removed after death for experimental work, have been found stored in an old cupboard.Read