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Will Batchelor: My fears for Chris Hadfield, the astronaut with stars in his eyes May 17 2013

I AM uncertain how to feel about the rise and rise of Commander Chris Hadfield, the Canadian astronaut whose mastery of social media has launched him into the celebrity stratosphere.Read

Will Batchelor: No wonder Chris Huhne is smiling May 17 2013

THE release of Chris Huhne and Vicky Pryce from prison was greeted with inevitable fury.Read

David Charters: The Mysterious Orient May 17 2013

MEMORIES were unzipped during that lunch and they tumbled into my mind’s view like onions from a burst bag – as I nibbled a chop suey roll in the upstairs of a restaurant that overlooks the fluttering steps and the high-tuned chatter of people passing the dragon-fired gates to the city’s ancient Chinatown.Read

Mr Brocklebank: Treacherous acts when putsch comes to shove May 16 2013

FORMER Thai president Thaksin Shinawatra said, following his deposition in 2006 while on a visit to the UK, that “I'm very disappointed by the mature-democracy countries. I was ousted by a coup d'etat.”Read

Gary Bainbridge: Explain yourself, people May 16 2013

I FIND as I grow older that I become increasingly baffled by everything. And bear in mind that I set up Base Camp relatively high up Mount Befuddlement in the first place.Read

Will Batchelor: Being British is very confusing May 10 2013

BEING British is very confusing.Read

David Charters: On funerals and choices May 10 2013

Suddenly, as if touched by an unseen force, she began humming a gentle melody in a tone as soft as the breeze. A nightingale on a tree tilted her head and reached for an ear trumpet, a frog in our pond began tapping his foot on a lily-pad and the sun peered from behind a cloud to warm God’s earth.Read

Mr Brocklebank: Bill, bills and billboards everywhere May 09 2013

MANY a Merseyside eyebrow was raised earlier this week by the revelation that the region’s, ahem, sperm banks are running so low on resources that they’ve had to resort to drafting it in from... of all places, Manchester!Read

Gary Bainbridge: Goal of the month May 09 2013

I HAD to assemble a goal. It is unclear why anybody thought this would end well.Read

David Charters: Hands help hold us together May 03 2013

As the box passed, the boy felt a squeeze on his hand from the serenely-powdered woman standing next to him in a sombre hat, secured to her crimped head with a gladiatorial pin. And it was an eloquent squeeze, in which old skin rubbed young skin and said: “Keep your lips stiff, no puckering of the chin. The man in the box doesn’t want any blubbing.”Read

Mr Brocklebank: Those good old, bad old days May 02 2013

THAT great French novelist Marcel Proust once said that “Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.”Read

Gary Bainbridge: Ugly bug maul May 02 2013

I HATE gardening. But I had to do some a week or two ago, seeing as winter had finally decided it had better get its skates on or it would be late for the southern hemisphere.Read

Will Batchelor: Bad guy revisionism is just bad Apr 26 2013

There is a strange phenomenon which takes place after a major terrorist attack, when our hatred of today’s villain causes us to downgrade our historic enmity towards yesterday’s. Read

David Charters: Talking too much and too loudly Apr 26 2013

I know this to be true because I carry an echo in my head which tells me that I have said something before. But I find myself saying it again anyway.Read

Mr Brocklebank: Full of eastern compromise Apr 25 2013

IF THERE’S one thing Liverpool doesn’t have in common with the Middle East, it’s money.Read

Gary Bainbridge: Beaten Again Apr 25 2013

I WILL never forget what I was doing when I discovered JLS were splitting up. I was reading about JLS splitting up.Read

David Charters: In memory of Clive Apr 19 2013

For example, how nice it would be to see North Korea’s young moon-faced dictator Kim Jong-un, who has the silliest haircut since Adolf Hitler, resting his ample girth on a stool to tease that jaunty melody Chopsticks from the delicate keys of an upright piano in the typical front-room of a suburban English semi – a plate of Bath Oliver biscuits and a nibble of Cheddar cheese awaiting him on the table behind.Read