Wanderers trust must support Steve Hayes

1:11pm Friday 3rd July 2009

The future of Wycombe Wanderers is in the balance this week. Members of the Trust have to make a crucial decision – whether or not to support Steve Hayes, whose financial support of the club has kept it afloat for several years now.

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No, I'm not back in Doctor Who

9:57am Friday 26th June 2009

THIS week several people contacted me to say how delighted they were that I was to appear in a Doctor Who ‘multi-doctor special’ for Children in Need this autumn. “Am I? Am I really? How lovely. Erm… what makes you think that?” “It’s in the Daily Mirror.” So I checked.

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My bus left from a different bay

10:05am Friday 19th June 2009

AS I am currently not allowed to drive because I have been banned for speeding, I am trying to minimise the inconvenience to my family and friends, who are all otherwise very generously suffering for my misdeeds.

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All this waste is just so unhealthy

11:37am Friday 12th June 2009

Isn’t it interesting that the nanny state has no trouble at all in getting pointless rules and regulations enacted and enforced, but drags her inelegant heels when it comes to the ones we all want enforced?

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Scandal shows just how stupid MPs can be

9:57am Friday 5th June 2009

THE debate over politicians’ expenses rumbles on fuelled by the gleeful media. The whole farrago started when the government of the day lacked the courage to present to the public salary increases for MPs that might appear excessive to the man on the Clapham omnibus but which, in the world of business, would have been considered modest.

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Why I refuse to wear stuff with designer labels

10:05am Friday 29th May 2009

I WISH someone could explain the attraction of wearing clothes that prominently display the manufacturer or designer’s name.

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Our behaviour would confuse alien observers

3:03pm Friday 22nd May 2009

AN alien observer would be hard pressed to come up with an opinion about us if they had cast an eye or three over the events of the last few weeks. On the one hand, we have seen how appallingly we can behave towards creatures we have domesticated in our service – as at the hands of James Gray in Amersham who will be sentenced next month after being found guilty of neglect and cruelty after more than 100 horses were removed from his farm. Perversely, unless the courts rule otherwise, the stricken animals remain his property.

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A plague on all the houses of the greedy MPs

11:09am Friday 15th May 2009

SO, the little piggies of Westminster have been immersing their greedy snouts in the trough we have to fill through our taxes.

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Let's publish and not be damned

12:59pm Friday 8th May 2009

LITTLE thought, in October 1994, when I wrote a letter to the editor of this newspaper that he would offer me a weekly column as a result, nor that I would still be writing it, for that same editor 14 years later.

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Bruce cooked for us in hell

10:20am Friday 1st May 2009

MY wife and I were invited last week to join the diners in Hell’s Kitchen, a television programme that I might otherwise not have watched, being more a fan of eating than I am of cooking. However, in view of the fact that we were about to be whisked off to the distant reaches of East London to sample the fare of Marco Pierre White’s trainee celebrity chefs, I thought it would be polite to familiarise myself with the process.

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