http://www.bucksfreepress.co.uk/yoursay/opinion/look/ Bucks Free Press /yoursay/opinion/look/ en-gb Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:18:51 +0000 Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:18:51 +0000 http://www.bucksfreepress.co.uk/yoursay/opinion/look/rssterms/ M6 nvincent@newsquest.co.uk (Nigel Vincent) webmaster@digitalmedia.newsquest.co.uk (Tim Joy) http://www.bucksfreepress.co.uk/resources/images/1000711/?type=rsslogo http://www.bucksfreepress.co.uk/yoursay/opinion/look/ http://www.bucksfreepress.co.uk/yoursay/opinion/look/5071966.Will_we_end_up_with_txt_spk_/?ref=rss A good friend has berated me for writing in this column ‘different to’ instead of ‘different from’. As one who regularly criticises the verbal infelicities of others, I confess that I was mortified to have been identified as a preposition abuser. Fri, 19 Mar 2010 10:35:51 +0000 e2e85dcd27449f6f18d4276df8c91538 http://www.bucksfreepress.co.uk/yoursay/opinion/look/5057765.The_aliens_are_coming_for_us/?ref=rss WE are all just voices crying in the wilderness, it seems. That is all of us except the extra-terrestrials who are now living among us. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 10:03:49 +0000 021a825ed9697df1be484c78204cccef http://www.bucksfreepress.co.uk/yoursay/opinion/look/5043939.Could_I_become_a_millionaire_or_is_this_nuts_/?ref=rss Every now and then something happens that is so exciting, it has to be shared. Fri, 05 Mar 2010 11:09:37 +0000 6d745e9eaed01758579175c0eafca775 http://www.bucksfreepress.co.uk/yoursay/opinion/look/5030699.These_cuts_are_long_overdue/?ref=rss A representative of Bucks County Council admitted this week that they had had ‘too many managers…for a bit.’ This is like saying that ‘Vlad the Impaler had anger management issues.’ There are some forms of understatement that are verging on the downright euphemistic. Fri, 26 Feb 2010 10:53:10 +0000 521a40e05b74830a636f99b32c504a0b http://www.bucksfreepress.co.uk/yoursay/opinion/look/5017613.Net_may_save_small_traders/?ref=rss Wycombe apparently has the fourth highest level of empty shops of any town in the South of England. The three bigger retail losers are Guildford, Southampton and Bracknell – in that order, the latter having a 19.3% empty shop rate. This is very clearly a sign of the times in terms of the disposable income of the majority of shoppers and their comparative reluctance to part with the cash they do have. Fri, 19 Feb 2010 10:54:44 +0000 ee4892f092d225d479e3335a0bcf17f6 http://www.bucksfreepress.co.uk/yoursay/opinion/look/5004432.Why_can_t_they_do_the_decent_thing_and_quit_/?ref=rss ONE of the less attractive tendencies of current public and corporate life is the disinclination of those who squat at the top of the greasy pole to face up to the consequence of the buck stopping in their immediate vicinity. Fri, 12 Feb 2010 10:45:09 +0000 842dc002f6c8e5bd433c5d2e2b2271bc http://www.bucksfreepress.co.uk/yoursay/opinion/look/4910258.Look_Who_s_now_a_proper_author/?ref=rss MANY of my contemporaries have been sending me copies of their autobiographies, some actually written by them and others, shall we say, ‘assisted’. I suppose it is now de rigeur for any self respecting actor who has achieved even a modicum of notoriety to write about their lives. Fri, 05 Feb 2010 09:20:55 +0000 a6b794aeb2d917e0b96f9bd524bfc72c http://www.bucksfreepress.co.uk/yoursay/opinion/look/4879891.I_landed_in_hole_load_of_trouble/?ref=rss I’M not sure whether another voice crying in the wilderness of potholes is going to achieve anything to improve the parlous state of our roads, which were bad enough before the ‘big freeze’ and are now approaching the level of disrepair associated with what we are pleased to call ‘third world countries’ for no logical reason. Fri, 29 Jan 2010 10:22:59 +0000 3a75f83115bf55683c746888af9bbe34 http://www.bucksfreepress.co.uk/yoursay/opinion/look/4867339.Dr_Who_s_not_afraid_of_the_big_bad_wolf/?ref=rss When I was 12 years old, at an all boys school in Manchester, I played Phyllis, the lead soprano, in Gilbert and Sullivan’s ‘Iolanthe’. Fri, 22 Jan 2010 17:38:43 +0000 62a93f81f956046e98912cba8c88f592 http://www.bucksfreepress.co.uk/yoursay/opinion/look/4862616.Blame_culture_is_snow_joke/?ref=rss THERE are lessons to be learned from the effects of the extreme weather of the last couple of weeks. Perhaps, first of all I should define what I mean by ‘extreme’. This level of snow would not be regarded as remotely extreme in many other countries in Northern Europe, because it happens to them more regularly and more predictably. Wed, 20 Jan 2010 20:52:54 +0000 61f932f0c2ae9505ffad2b8270a96c60