A weekly column reproduced from the Bristol Evening Post Page 1 of 2 This Northern Alliance thingy. Is it wise to rely on a building society to fight the Taliban for us? Wouldn’t proper soldiers stand a better chance? What
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A weekly column reproduced from the Bristol Evening Post Page 2 of 2 Listen, shares can go up, as well as down. Don’t cry now just because this particular gravy train has hit the buffers. Another bloody moaner is that
Terrorists hiding in Debenhams?
A weekly column reproduced from the Bristol Evening Post Page 1 of 2 The editor of this impressive organ telephones me in a state of some excitement from the city centre, where he’s been handing out white feathers to anti-war
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A weekly column reproduced from the Bristol Evening Post Page 2 of 2 And what splendid fare was on offer. Sunday afternoon viewing in the year 2001 consisted of a choice between an old Morecambe and Wise show or a
Kate Adie? It must be war!
A weekly column reproduced from the Bristol Evening Post Page 1 of 2 The editor of this impressive organ telephones me from a tattoo shop in Old Market in a state of some excitement. “Bazza,” he cries. “How do you
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A weekly column reproduced from the Bristol Evening Post Page 2 of 2 Why are there so many daft adverts on television at the moment? How come that bloody Eskimo in the television adverts can get a mortgage, a credit
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A weekly column reproduced from the Bristol Evening Post Page 2 of 2 (We’d best not get into the argument about why British forces are fannying about in Macedonia, instead of protecting British subjects in Africa. My anger management course
Sorry George, but this is how it feels
A weekly column reproduced from the Bristol Evening Post Page 1 of 2 The following column may not be universally popular. If you have ginger hair, are a vegetarian or a Guardian reader, please turn the page now. In fact,
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A weekly column reproduced from the Bristol Evening Post Page 2 of 2 For a start, 95 per cent of them don’t even have passports, so we can hardly describe them as knowledgable in the ways of the world. They
Lib Dem or Taliban? You decide
A weekly column reproduced from the Bristol Evening Post Page 1 of 2 The editor of this enormous organ telephones me in a state of some excitement from the bunker he has constructed behind his desk. “Brmmmph hmmm daaa nunghh!”
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A weekly column reproduced from the Bristol Evening Post Page 2 of 2 Student life for Willie boy will be a world away from that of your average spotty 19-year-old gimp. He won’t ever experience the seemingly bottomless pot of
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A weekly column reproduced from the Bristol Evening Post Page 2 of 2 Mark my words: as the unfair and unnecessary blight of speed cameras spreads, we are heading for wholesale civil disobedience. And not only is the law now
Slavery? Us?
A weekly column reproduced from the Bristol Evening Post Page 1 of 2 The Reverend Jesse Jackson has decided that it’s time we apologised for slavery. Yes, us, the people of Bristol. Never mind that we were late into the
Barbie fever
A weekly column reproduced from the Bristol Evening Post Page 1 of 2 The smell of charcoal and petrol hangs over suburbia like a shroud. At Number 32, embers still glow amongst the smouldering remains of the garden shed. Next
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A weekly column reproduced from the Bristol Evening Post Page 2 of 2 Who’s in charge of talent-spotting for the Royal Family? I ask, because we appear to have let a cracking prospect escape. Mette Marit Tjessum Hoiby married into
How to avoid that speeding fine
A weekly column reproduced from the Bristol Evening Post Page 1 of 2 The editor of this impressive organ invites me out to lunch. Not a posh venue. A curry house in one of the murkier parts of town. Over