Let us drink beer, Mr Shakespeare

3:16pm Friday 11th January 2008

I WAS pleased to discover Wycombe District Council had done a bit of a U-turn over plans to hike up parking charges. The Bucks Free Press' campaign - Let us park, Mrs Clarke' - was a resounding success because it reflected public opinion in a firm but humorous manner.

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What the Dickens is going on at Yuletide?

1:25pm Thursday 20th December 2007

I COULDN'T understand why at first, but Mrs Mann tells me she has bought me a CD film of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol' as a present this year.

Council leaders do deserve to be paid well

10:40am Friday 14th December 2007

THERE was righteous indignation in the national newspapers this week over a plan to pay elected council leaders up to £10,000 in "golden goodbyes" when they are voted out of office.

Be as rude as you want about sleazey politicians

7:09pm Monday 10th December 2007

I ALMOST fell off my seat recently after accidentally tuning into a TV documentary about Tony Blair. You know him, don't you? That smug bloke with the Cheshire cat grin who allegedly ran our country for ten years.

Council tax hikes go through in a mist of confusion

11:17am Friday 30th November 2007

THERE is one good thing about council tax. Yes, you read that correctly. I said there is actually one good thing about council tax.

End our night-mayor system

10:43am Friday 23rd November 2007

I DON'T normally side with councillors, but I actually feel a tad sorry for the mayor of High Wycombe in the row with the market traders of the town.

Why do youngsters dress like vagrants?

4:34pm Friday 16th November 2007

I AM genuinely sickened by the fashion-sense of young people today. I know my generation of late middle-aged respectable citizens has always traditionally complained about what teenagers are wearing, but it's utterly ludicrous now.

Hike up council rents to pay for tax cuts

1:47pm Friday 9th November 2007

COUNCIL houses? I thought Maggie Thatcher had more or less gotten rid of them when she introduced the right-to-buy during her time as PM.

Guy is a symbol of religious extremism

2:02pm Friday 9th November 2007

RE: Charles Mann's comments last week that burning an effigy of Guy Fawkes was barbaric. OH dear. Once again somebody wanting to meddle with things without understanding why they were done.

Guy Fawkes festival is barbaric

4:55pm Friday 2nd November 2007

WHEN oh when are they going to outlaw the barbaric ritual in which children celebrate as a human being is burned at the stake?

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