Articles...
Jul 30 2008
THERE’S an invisible piece of elastic that’s attached to all of us and no matter how far we stray it will pull us back to our origins....
Jul 24 2008
WHEN you are stuck in a school uniform eight hours a day, five days a week, it is only natural for young girls to find ways to make the most of their looks....
Jul 23 2008
THIS week’s report by MPs on rail travel – “lack of vision”, “no long-term strategy” – could not have been more damning. Yet it still ducked the big question....
Jul 23 2008
HAVING finally consigned the spaghetti measurer and a parrot-shaped pastry brush (unused) to the charity shop box, I have been given another kitchen gadget....
Jul 14 2008
NEIL SCALES isn’t everyone’s cup of tea. This is particularly the case with Wirral residents, some of whom blame him personally for keeping the tolls on the tunnels. ...
Jul 14 2008
IT COMES as a shock, to hear that, as a nation usually criticised for being obsessed with heritage, one in 12 such historic sites are at risk, as revealed in a new English Heritage survey, called – unsurprisingly – Heritage at Risk....
Jul 10 2008
IT HAS happened to us all hasn’t it. You spend hours getting ready, debating over which dress, which shoes and which handbag, then you take two steps out of the taxi – and snap! Your four-inch spike heel becomes a two-inch stump, you fall over and spend the rest of the night impersonating a flamingo standing on one leg....
Jul 7 2008
TO BE in a hall with at least ten people whose sons or partners have been viciously killed on Merseyside, is a humbling experience. ...
Jul 4 2008
AS A bit of a Jane Austen-wallah, I am probably rather over-tuned to the nuance of speech, but realise I do have to force myself to make concessions to the 19th, 20th and now, heaven forbid, the 21st century....
Jun 26 2008
CRICKET has long had a fractious relationship with politics. From the diplomatic incidents arising from the Bodyline tour in the 1930s to the non-selection of Basil D’Olivera for a tour to South Africa in 1968-69, which was subsequently cancelled when D’Olivera was included in the squad, and the rebel tours of the 1980s....
