Birmingham Mail - Birmingham Mail Columnists - Paul Fulford

Fixing drains without God

Birmingham Mail — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 10:49:00 GMT

THEOLOGIANS might argue, but I reckon that God – if he or she exists – is unlikely to take a great deal of interest in the municipal affairs of the no doubt perfectly pleasant small Devon town of Bideford.

'Speeding' course a lesson learned

Birmingham Mail — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 10:43:00 GMT

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.

Cooking up a load of clichés

Birmingham Mail — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 11:12:00 GMT

MASTERCHEF is back with two of the least prepossessing faces on television.

You'd be mad to live in Birmingham instead of London...or would you?

Birmingham Mail — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 16:50:00 GMT

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.

If Her Maj is hard up what hope for the rest of us?

Birmingham Mail — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 15:08:00 GMT

TIMES are hard, I know, and many and various are the charity demands we receive.

How banter can turn to bullying...and worse

Birmingham Mail — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 15:07:00 GMT

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.

Why do bugs pick on men?

Birmingham Mail — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 11:04:00 GMT

DOES anyone know if microbes are subject to the same equal opportunity laws that govern us humans?

Hard work, but I love it really...

Birmingham Mail — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 11:09:00 GMT

THE lights on the Christmas tree twinkle like the icy eyes of a City banker about to pick up his bonus.

The joys and horrors of it

Birmingham Mail — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 11:46:00 GMT

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.

Easy to sneer on £1m a year

Birmingham Mail — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 10:30:00 GMT

HERE’S a question to exercise your brain before it becomes addled over the festive period.

Tis the season to be fed up

Birmingham Mail — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 11:45:00 GMT

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.

Inspirational and heroic

Birmingham Mail — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 11:26:00 GMT

ELSEWHERE in this newspaper are pictures of people of whom this city can be rightfully proud.

Don't rely on the parents

Birmingham Mail — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 11:03:00 GMT

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.

Big egos and no restraint

Birmingham Mail — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 09:43:00 GMT

THEY’RE both household names with television personas that suggest they’re friendly and not at all arrogant.

Bloodsuckers who gamble

Birmingham Mail — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 09:30:00 GMT

HAD I got any hair, I might well by now have torn it from my head amid much wailing and chest-thumping.

Jacko's death no tragedy

Birmingham Mail — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 10:05:00 GMT

THE pappy pop music of Michael Jackson was puerile and banal.

Hot air about energy rises

Birmingham Mail — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 10:21:00 GMT

THOSE childhood winter weeks were the longest, coldest and darkest I can recall.

Fashion can be very ugly

Birmingham Mail — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 10:48:00 GMT

PLEASE don’t get me wrong. It’s good that women – even those of unprepossessing appearance – should seek to make themselves look acceptable.

The markets should stay

Birmingham Mail — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 11:34:00 GMT

THEY’RE a hard-working lot down at Birmingham’s outdoor markets.

Tango faces back at work

Birmingham Mail — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 09:34:00 GMT

THIS week, schoolchildren will not be the only people who return to their desks with long faces after a long summer break.