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Will Batchelor: My 25 years of hurt at the heartless hands of Halfords May 25 2012

I WAS planning to write something preachy this week about the ugliness of bearing a grudge.Read

Will Batchelor: Ignorance of Alder Hey organ retention scandal is no defence for police May 25 2012

I HAD a shred of sympathy for Alder Hey in the wake of the organ retention scandal.Read

David Charters: A soft touch meets tarmac man May 25 2012

“And a very good afternoon to you, sir,” he said in an accent slicked by God in that romantic Irish roguery found in the stories of Sean O’Casey and Brendan Behan.Read

Mr Brocklebank: ‘... Someone’s creeping round the corner ...’ May 24 2012

IT’S BEEN a while since he’s graced these pages, but David ‘Mack The Knife’ McElhinney is back in town.Read

Gary Bainbridge: The Shape Of Things To Nom May 24 2012

THE thing I do when I am not writing this column has kept me away from home recently, and I have spent some weeks in a hotel off the M6 at Birmingham.Read

Phil Redmond: Losing a King but gaining a Queen May 24 2012

I’ve made no secret of my admiration for Dalglish and what he achieved over the past 18 months, but that is not simply the musings of an ageing Kopite. It comes from knowing what it is like to manage talent under the full glare of a media firestorm.Read

Will Batchelor: Getting to the truth is a difficult process as The Sun and Derek Acorah prove May 18 2012

TRUTH is the first casualty of war, they say – and I have always believed them.Read

David Charters: Lost in wonder in the Pound shop May 18 2012

BENEATH the Perspex hoods in the hairdresser’s salon, the crimped and curled ladies of the suburbs sat on their thrones and gossiped, while their varnished nails fingered the gaudy pages of magazines, which told of the riches and the peccadilloes of people whose private jets are yet to land in Bootle or Birkenhead.Read

Mr Brocklebank: Cometh the hour, cometh the man May 17 2012

IN THE dark, early days of the Second World War, with the British government in disarray considering the failure of Neville Chamberlain’s appeasement of the Hitlerite tyranny, forward stepped the only man who it was felt could truly lead the country out of the shadow of the fascist threat and back into the sunshine of freedom.Read

Gary Bainbridge: Blight and shade May 17 2012

I ALWAYS wanted to be Bruce Willis from Moonlighting when I grew up. I still do.Read

David Charters: Misery in the merry month of May May 11 2012

For down the centuries sages have noted that our best thoughts are harvested in the bath. But to enable this to happen at the highest level, it is necessary to keep the water at the correct temperature for steaming the brain.Read

Mr Brocklebank: Conquerors, you say? Hitler must be turning in his metaphorical grave May 10 2012

WHAT a lively affair the mayoral election count transpired to be – if only for all the wrong reasons.Read

Gary Bainbridge: The credit crunch May 10 2012

IT IS all Matthew Broderick's fault. He is the one who makes me do it.Read

Phil Redmond: The conundrum of getting people engaged May 10 2012

Whether local, national or international, election results seem to have gone the way most expected, especially in hindsight. France veered from right to left, Greece went from left to right and nationally, well, the UK seems to have veered from one side to the other of the white line down the middle of the road.Read

Will Batchelor: Why it is our patriotic duty to have missile batteries on our roof during the London Olympics May 05 2012

WALKING around this city, I am often humbled by the sight of those noble stumps where iron railings once stood, chopped down by loyal patriots who sacrificed the frontages of their own homes to provide scrap metal for the war effort.Read

Will Batchelor: What a way to welcome Roy Hodgson as England manager May 05 2012

THE most depressing aspect of Roy Hodgson’s appointment as England manager was not, for me, its inherent lack of ambition but the reaction of football fans.Read

David Charters: Leaving modern life behind May 04 2012

Soon the pressure would tell and there would be a release that would have had old Noah unfurling his umbrella.Read

Gary Bainbridge: Plight of the humble tea May 03 2012

I FOUND a really good tea shop.Read

Phil Redmond: If I was you, I wouldn't start from here May 03 2012

Locally, my only one prediction being that Salford, because of Media City, will probably feature a bit more than they have in the past.Read

David Charters: Decisions, decisions Apr 27 2012

DECISIONS twang and bruise the brains of mankind, rather as the springs in an ancient sofa agitate the bottom of a nervous sitter.Read

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