http://www.birminghammail.net/birmingham-blogs-views/birmingham-mail-columnists/maureen-messent/ Our columnist, Maureen Messent discusses euthanasia and tells her story. Maureen regularly comments on health, lifestyle issues and her pick of the latest news. en-gb Birmingham Mail no Our columnist, Maureen Messent discusses euthanasia and tells her story. Maureen regularly comments on health, lifestyle issues and her pick of the latest news. Maureen Messent euthanasia http://www.birminghammail.net/birmingham-blogs-views/birmingham-mail-columnists/maureen-messent/2009/11/05/baffled-by-claims-97319-25100022/ Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:52:00 GMT http://www.birminghammail.net/birmingham-blogs-views/birmingham-mail-columnists/maureen-messent/2009/11/05/baffled-by-claims-97319-25100022/ 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. Maureen Messent http://www.birminghammail.net/birmingham-blogs-views/birmingham-mail-columnists/maureen-messent/2009/11/05/questions-raised-by-pope-offer-97319-25100011/ Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:51:00 GMT http://www.birminghammail.net/birmingham-blogs-views/birmingham-mail-columnists/maureen-messent/2009/11/05/questions-raised-by-pope-offer-97319-25100011/ HOW extremely discourteous my Pope has been. Maureen Messent http://www.birminghammail.net/birmingham-blogs-views/birmingham-mail-columnists/maureen-messent/2009/11/05/take-more-water-girls-97319-25100004/ Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:49:00 GMT http://www.birminghammail.net/birmingham-blogs-views/birmingham-mail-columnists/maureen-messent/2009/11/05/take-more-water-girls-97319-25100004/ 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. Maureen Messent http://www.birminghammail.net/birmingham-blogs-views/birmingham-mail-columnists/maureen-messent/2009/11/05/couple-foolish-to-leave-dry-land-97319-25099965/ Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:47:00 GMT http://www.birminghammail.net/birmingham-blogs-views/birmingham-mail-columnists/maureen-messent/2009/11/05/couple-foolish-to-leave-dry-land-97319-25099965/ THOSE damned old fools, the yachting Chandlers, should be forbidden to leave dry land again once they are back in Britain. Maureen Messent http://www.birminghammail.net/birmingham-blogs-views/birmingham-mail-columnists/maureen-messent/2009/11/05/don-t-point-finger-at-the-most-vulnerable-97319-25099932/ Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:44:00 GMT http://www.birminghammail.net/birmingham-blogs-views/birmingham-mail-columnists/maureen-messent/2009/11/05/don-t-point-finger-at-the-most-vulnerable-97319-25099932/ A DOWN’S Syndrome lad I know is a superbly fit amateur athlete. Maureen Messent http://www.birminghammail.net/birmingham-blogs-views/birmingham-mail-columnists/maureen-messent/2009/10/30/maureen-messent-a-replacement-bnp-could-be-much-worse-97319-25046834/ Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.birminghammail.net/birmingham-blogs-views/birmingham-mail-columnists/maureen-messent/2009/10/30/maureen-messent-a-replacement-bnp-could-be-much-worse-97319-25046834/ WELL, that should be it. With Nick Griffin having stumbled and dissembled before nine million viewers, the BNP will disappear. Maureen Messent http://www.birminghammail.net/birmingham-blogs-views/birmingham-mail-columnists/maureen-messent/2009/10/29/a-replacement-bnp-could-be-much-worse-97319-25045832/ Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:31:00 GMT http://www.birminghammail.net/birmingham-blogs-views/birmingham-mail-columnists/maureen-messent/2009/10/29/a-replacement-bnp-could-be-much-worse-97319-25045832/ WELL, that should be it. With Nick Griffin having stumbled and dissembled before nine million viewers, the BNP will disappear. Maureen Messent http://www.birminghammail.net/birmingham-blogs-views/birmingham-mail-columnists/maureen-messent/2009/10/29/why-this-obsession-with-poo-97319-25045830/ Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:30:00 GMT http://www.birminghammail.net/birmingham-blogs-views/birmingham-mail-columnists/maureen-messent/2009/10/29/why-this-obsession-with-poo-97319-25045830/ I THOUGHT, on the first day of letters to this newspaper reviling cats for defecating in neighbouring gardens, that readers were pulling our legs. Maureen Messent http://www.birminghammail.net/birmingham-blogs-views/birmingham-mail-columnists/maureen-messent/2009/10/29/partners-on-board-not-bed-97319-25045824/ Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:26:00 GMT http://www.birminghammail.net/birmingham-blogs-views/birmingham-mail-columnists/maureen-messent/2009/10/29/partners-on-board-not-bed-97319-25045824/ 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. Maureen Messent http://www.birminghammail.net/birmingham-blogs-views/birmingham-mail-columnists/maureen-messent/2009/10/29/food-parcels-for-old-97319-25045822/ Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:25:00 GMT http://www.birminghammail.net/birmingham-blogs-views/birmingham-mail-columnists/maureen-messent/2009/10/29/food-parcels-for-old-97319-25045822/ 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. Maureen Messent http://www.birminghammail.net/birmingham-blogs-views/birmingham-mail-columnists/maureen-messent/2009/10/22/first-oap-whinge-of-winter-97319-24992302/ Thu, 22 Oct 2009 12:08:00 GMT http://www.birminghammail.net/birmingham-blogs-views/birmingham-mail-columnists/maureen-messent/2009/10/22/first-oap-whinge-of-winter-97319-24992302/ PREDICTABLE, isn’t it? With the first nip in the air, our pensioners take to Birmingham city centre for a whinge. Maureen Messent http://www.birminghammail.net/birmingham-blogs-views/birmingham-mail-columnists/maureen-messent/2009/10/22/no-easy-access-on-snowdon-97319-24992263/ Thu, 22 Oct 2009 12:05:00 GMT http://www.birminghammail.net/birmingham-blogs-views/birmingham-mail-columnists/maureen-messent/2009/10/22/no-easy-access-on-snowdon-97319-24992263/ 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. Maureen Messent http://www.birminghammail.net/birmingham-blogs-views/birmingham-mail-columnists/maureen-messent/2009/10/22/terrible-tv-you-can-not-switch-off-97319-24992191/ Thu, 22 Oct 2009 12:02:00 GMT http://www.birminghammail.net/birmingham-blogs-views/birmingham-mail-columnists/maureen-messent/2009/10/22/terrible-tv-you-can-not-switch-off-97319-24992191/ I WATCHED The X Factor in mesmerised horror. Any TV this bad is unmissable. Maureen Messent http://www.birminghammail.net/birmingham-blogs-views/birmingham-mail-columnists/maureen-messent/2009/10/22/drunk-student-did-not-intend-any-disrespect-97319-24992185/ Thu, 22 Oct 2009 11:59:00 GMT http://www.birminghammail.net/birmingham-blogs-views/birmingham-mail-columnists/maureen-messent/2009/10/22/drunk-student-did-not-intend-any-disrespect-97319-24992185/ HOW precious we’re becoming. How easily we get the hump. How we enjoy taking umbrage. Maureen Messent http://www.birminghammail.net/birmingham-blogs-views/birmingham-mail-columnists/maureen-messent/2009/10/15/tragedy-no-just-an-addict-s-suicide-97319-24938940/ Thu, 15 Oct 2009 12:44:00 GMT http://www.birminghammail.net/birmingham-blogs-views/birmingham-mail-columnists/maureen-messent/2009/10/15/tragedy-no-just-an-addict-s-suicide-97319-24938940/ HOW cheap we’ve made that word “tragedy”. Maureen Messent http://www.birminghammail.net/birmingham-blogs-views/birmingham-mail-columnists/maureen-messent/2009/10/15/gazza-s-ex-isn-t-helping-the-cause-97319-24938930/ Thu, 15 Oct 2009 12:42:00 GMT http://www.birminghammail.net/birmingham-blogs-views/birmingham-mail-columnists/maureen-messent/2009/10/15/gazza-s-ex-isn-t-helping-the-cause-97319-24938930/ I THINK I’d prefer sozzled, incoherent and unlettered Paul Gascoigne to his venomous ex-wife, Sharon. Maureen Messent http://www.birminghammail.net/birmingham-blogs-views/birmingham-mail-columnists/maureen-messent/2009/10/15/praying-for-blanche-97319-24938922/ Thu, 15 Oct 2009 12:41:00 GMT http://www.birminghammail.net/birmingham-blogs-views/birmingham-mail-columnists/maureen-messent/2009/10/15/praying-for-blanche-97319-24938922/ 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. Maureen Messent http://www.birminghammail.net/birmingham-blogs-views/birmingham-mail-columnists/maureen-messent/2009/10/15/ash-recovery-bugs-me-97319-24938918/ Thu, 15 Oct 2009 12:39:00 GMT http://www.birminghammail.net/birmingham-blogs-views/birmingham-mail-columnists/maureen-messent/2009/10/15/ash-recovery-bugs-me-97319-24938918/ 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. Maureen Messent http://www.birminghammail.net/birmingham-blogs-views/birmingham-mail-columnists/maureen-messent/2009/10/15/so-many-taxi-cabs-for-too-few-fares-97319-24938913/ Thu, 15 Oct 2009 12:37:00 GMT http://www.birminghammail.net/birmingham-blogs-views/birmingham-mail-columnists/maureen-messent/2009/10/15/so-many-taxi-cabs-for-too-few-fares-97319-24938913/ 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? Maureen Messent http://www.birminghammail.net/birmingham-blogs-views/birmingham-mail-columnists/maureen-messent/2009/10/08/p-word-is-awful-but-can-t-we-all-just-grow-up-97319-24885020/ Thu, 08 Oct 2009 13:34:00 GMT http://www.birminghammail.net/birmingham-blogs-views/birmingham-mail-columnists/maureen-messent/2009/10/08/p-word-is-awful-but-can-t-we-all-just-grow-up-97319-24885020/ 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. Maureen Messent