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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

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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

Maureen Messent

Tragedy? No, just an addict’s suicide

HOW cheap we’ve made that word “tragedy”.Read

Maureen Messent

Gazza’s ex isn’t helping the cause

I THINK I’d prefer sozzled, incoherent and unlettered Paul Gascoigne to his venomous ex-wife, Sharon.Read

Maureen Messent

Praying for Blanche

SUPERB Maggie Jones who, at 75, delights us Corrie fans as Deidre’s mother Blanche, is said to be fighting for her life after illness struck.Read

Maureen Messent

Ash recovery bugs me

ACTRESS Leslie Ash, she of the modest talent, trout-pout and connubial sex so vigorous that she ended up in hospital wherein she contracted the superbug MRSA, was back on television this week.Read

Maureen Messent

So many taxi cabs for too few fares

I TOOK the ride through our city centre yesterday and, upon my soul, is there a European thoroughfare boasting more charm than Corporation Street, full of trees, bustling shops and an obviously contented populous?Read

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P-word is awful but can’t we all just grow up?

VISIT our hospitals and you’ll find splendid Pakistani-origin doctors and consultants. Walk through our law courts and you’ll see solicitors and barristers from a similar background.Read