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
HE WAS blatant in his call for violence, this young man whose family largely survives on state handouts and who was transported to and around our city at great public expense.Read
THOSE summer months when leading politicians head off to spend quality time with billionaires aboard luxury yachts, footballers lie on beaches in exclusive resorts plotting their next money-spinning transfer and the rest of us grab a couple of rainy weeks off work have a name in the media.Read
COUNCILLORS come and go, most forgotten and unmissed when they say goodbye to their expenses and the opportunity to pontificate at great and tedious length.Read
MANY years ago, long before the Birmingham Mail’s editor at that time was misguided enough to offer me employment here, I experienced one of the most troubling moments of my journalistic career.Read
WITH the face and demeanour of a man who might try to flog you a cut-price shed from the back of a scruffy white van, the self-regarding Robbie Williams has little going for him.Read
