HYPOCRISY is a horrible trait in anyone, let alone a loud-mouth like me who’s prone to criticise in others faults of which I, too, am all to often guilty.Read
THERE’S been a fair bit of banter between us warm-hearted, open-minded and perceptive Brummies and those unfriendly, prejudiced souls who live in that blob of gloom, selfishness and unnecessary freneticism that is known as London.
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AT the end of a week in which two men were jailed for the hate-fuelled murder of Stephen Lawrence simply because of the colour of his skin, another young black man was subject to racist taunts as he played for lowly Oldham against Liverpool at Anfield.Read
HEAD thumping, stomach churning, throat dry, skin clammy, energy sapped and feeling vaguely guilty over as yet unremembered misdeed, I recount last night’s excesses with a mixture of bewilderment and horror.Read
EXCUSE me if I don’t yo-ho-ho my way through this column, but despondency has set in with the sudden realisation that Christmas is fewer than five weeks away.Read
GIVEN a choice of drink, kids will invariably choose the sweetest, baddest thing they can shove into their greedy little mouths – hurling back the calorific, tooth-rotting liquid like pint-sized Rab C Nesbitts on the binge.Read
THE corridors of our prisons have been echoing to the clanging of metal doors slamming shut on those who took part in the riots and looting that shook this country.Read
