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PARLIAMENT: TOO MANY PIGEONS, NOT ENOUGH SPARROWS
WILLIE GILES adds a plea for the young to decide their own future
SPARROWS: WE ALL love them, and rightly so. Jaunty little chaps, cheeky,...
STREWTH! Wozza’s Aussie Roller has a cockatoo on the bull bars....
MY great friend Warren 'Wozza' Brown, Australia's finest cartoonist, is never short of a tale to tell. His latest, which happened while he was...
Pictures of The North
The North
REDUNDANCY? Like standing on a ledge, arms outstretched, trying not to look down. ....
TWO YEARS AGO, I was ejected from the newspaper where I had worked for 27 years. A day or so afterwards, I started this blog...
The moment I felt ashamed to be British
I RECENTLY EXPERIENCED something that all British citizens should experience, but very few ever will: I visited a Visa and Immigration Premium Service Centre,...
Bankers the lot of them!
The Nat West in Cockermouth is to close. It’s a sad day when we lose another valued high street amenity, however this led me...
THE SIGNS OF A HIGHLY TREATABLE CANCER YOU MUST NOT IGNORE
YOU are feeling tired, maybe you lost a little weight and you’re not on a diet . . . well, we all get knackered...
EDITOR WHO RELAUNCHED ‘THE JOURNAL’ IS A NEW NORTH VOICE!
In 1992 The Journal newspaper in Newcastle upon Tyne switched from broadsheet to tabloid. Twenty-five years later, NEIL FOWLER, the editor who led ‘the last...
