We're not here to be liked

6:14pm Thursday 9th August 2007

A MAYOR of High Wycombe once turned to me at a function, many years ago, and snapped: "You edit a very nasty newspaper."

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Is carrying drugs more acceptable than failing to pay TV licence?

7:49pm Thursday 2nd August 2007

WHAT'S stopping me from going to the local supermarket and nicking some wine? Or from bashing up someone just for kicks?

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Unfair 11-plus system must be changed

6:33pm Wednesday 25th July 2007

I RISK incurring the wrath of many readers in Bucks when I say this: but I reckon the 11-plus system in our schools is deeply unfair and should be changed.

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Maybe it’s the way I tell ‘em

3:51pm Friday 20th July 2007

IF BEING dull was a sport, I'd be captain of the national team. It's horrible to admit, but I could truly bore for England at times, what with the long and tedious anecdotes I simply cannot resist telling.

The pen is mightier than the computer

9:30am Monday 16th July 2007

I'M OFTEN asked to name my favourite journalist of all time. Who do I model myself on? Who would I like to imitate?

	Wycombe's going back on the map
	9:14am Thu 5 Jul 07
	NO, this isn't a picture of me at a fancy dress party. And nor have I given up my day job and gone respectable by joining the building trade.

Gormless denial still exists over smoking's dangers

7:08pm Thursday 28th June 2007

FOR one deluded moment, I thought the smokers had hired a hitman to nail me.

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Britain's always had talent

6:31pm Wednesday 20th June 2007

I REALLY should have loathed it by rights. But I have to admit I was hopelessly hooked to the TV show Britain's Got Talent.

I'm a real weed in the garden

11:37am Friday 15th June 2007

GARDENING. The final frontier. The terrifyingly-banal chore that robs us men of our last vestiges of street cred and forces us to cross time and space from idealistic youth to middle-class suburban slave.

Canadians speak a different language

5:11pm Friday 8th June 2007

THE Canadians stared at me in bewilderment as I rolled about laughing over a kebab van.

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Campaign should not go up in smoke

5:00pm Tuesday 22nd May 2007

FINALLY some common-sense in the world. I was delighted to read this week that a campaign is underway to ban smoking at the wheel.

Put rail travel back on track

4:13pm Friday 11th May 2007

ONE of the worst things ever to happen to south Bucks was when the railway line between High Wycombe and Bourne End was scrapped.

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I'd vote to ban party politics from councils

9:26am Thursday 3rd May 2007

I WILL let you in to a secret today, and will allow you into my mind and my polling booth as I cast my votes in the local elections.

No ifs and butties about our tax being wasted

11:31am Friday 27th April 2007

THIS may shock you, but I don't actually have anything against councillors eating sandwiches before their meetings.

Don't give me the good old days

4:43pm Friday 20th April 2007

I AM one of the biggest moaners in Bucks - and justifiably so. But even I don't subscribe to the daft myth that things were better in the "good old days".

Lack of respect for teachers shames our society

11:50am Thursday 12th April 2007

WE ALL wring our hands and wonder why the youths of today are out of control and causing hell on our streets.

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A natural juggler, but I still can't change a light bulb

3:46pm Thursday 5th April 2007

THE first time I tried to change a light bulb by myself, I cut my hand and spilt blood all over the carpet.

Barmy bus lane is a fine mess

1:49pm Monday 2nd April 2007

I COULD well end up the most unpopular man in Bucks if my latest campaign is successful.

‘Council system is a nonsense’

11:53am Friday 23rd March 2007

THERE'S only ten days before the new council tax bills take force and I expect most of you will be consumed with the same rage that boils up inside of me every waking hour.

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Our councils are irrelevant apart from tax

3:14pm Friday 16th March 2007

I WAS driving along the potholed ravaged streets of High Wycombe on Tuesday when I suddenly became very angry.

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