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Oliver Cross: Veering towards American right is the route to madness

Fri, 24 May 2013 09:20:47 GMT

THE problem with the British right is that a part of it thinks it’s the American right, and the American right has recently lost two presidential elections in a row. Discuss.

Rod McPhee: Don’t congratulate Cameron if gay marriage is legalised

Wed, 22 May 2013 21:21:42 GMT

David Cameron came out with some pretty righteous language this week after the gay marriage bill leapt another hurdle in its perilous passage through Parliament.

Jayne Dawson: Nostalgia is fun, but it’s nothing like the real thing

Tue, 21 May 2013 14:05:14 GMT

Like a moth to a flame might be one way to describe it. Ever since I discovered the 1940s weekend at Haworth, I have been irresistibly drawn.

Sally Hall: Shocking that a size 14 woman looks alien in Hollywood world

Tue, 21 May 2013 10:39:24 GMT

The new Star Trek film might not have been my first choice of cinema viewing.

The Bloke: Fast approaching middle age

Tue, 21 May 2013 10:36:04 GMT

FUNNY, isn’t it, how the general perception of someone can change in what seems like the blink of an eye?

Oliver Cross: Poetry pleases... down the pub and in posher places

Thu, 16 May 2013 13:01:18 GMT

I had two very different poetry experiences at the weekend, because I like to get around.

Rod McPhee: Troublesome bars could jump new traffic light licence bands

Thu, 16 May 2013 08:38:53 GMT

Licensing chiefs want to make Leeds’s Call Lane a no-go zone for new bars which, given the fact that there’s hardly anywhere left to open new bars down there, is like slapping a ban on hunting Dodos.

Jayne Dawson: These girls are out of date and The Apprentice is way past it

Wed, 15 May 2013 08:53:59 GMT

Clearly, no one has told them about the shoes. There they go, galumphing about the place in their six-inch spike heels.

Sally Hall: Status of modern life leaves a yearning for slide shows of old

Mon, 13 May 2013 14:32:08 GMT

Sharing photos and news online through networking sites like Facebook and Twitter is something even techno-nanas like me have just about managed to get to grips with.

The Bloke: The survey that caught my eye

Mon, 13 May 2013 14:18:42 GMT

A survey caught my eye the other week. It was the one which showed that “just” (the survey’s word, not mine) one in 10 married men do as much housework as their wives.

Oliver Cross: Everything’s fine and dandy with the common dandelion

Thu, 09 May 2013 14:48:40 GMT

Let’s hear it for dandelions. The grass verge near me was recently cut to within an inch (well, more a centimetre) of its life and has still to recover.

Rod McPhee: Inspired thinking about arts - and a momentous occasion

Thu, 09 May 2013 08:29:24 GMT

To this day, any colleague I converse with about arty stuff tends to respond by adding the suffix ‘-farty’. Thus demeaning it instantly by making it “arty-farty.”

Jayne Dawson: Now the seed is planted - we can’t give up our lawns

Wed, 08 May 2013 08:12:51 GMT

I don’t know about you, but I could hear them everywhere.

Sally Hall: Beauty - it’s most certainly in the eye of the kettle bell holder

Tue, 07 May 2013 10:32:49 GMT

As Cher once quipped - if fitness came in a bottle, we’d all have a great body.

The Bloke: Sunning myself in Kauai

Tue, 07 May 2013 10:04:20 GMT

IN their monster early 90s smash Sit Down, a song awash with enough pseudo hippy nonsense to ensure all the girls at our school got into them at the precise moment all the lads decided they were cack, Manc indie makeweights James at least hit the nail on the head on one thing.

Oliver Cross: Heritage site is reminder of how we changed the world

Fri, 03 May 2013 09:22:29 GMT

I’ve gone all transportational. In last week’s column, I questioned how anybody could become so interested in buses as to become a bus-spotter and today I’m making a case for train-spotting.

Rod McPhee: Idiots mean we’ll never grow tired of hearing ‘You’re fired’

Thu, 02 May 2013 12:11:44 GMT

It’s one of the few shows to have survived reality TV’s boom and bust, and it’s survived for one simple reason: The Apprentice is pure viewing gold.

Jayne Dawson: Kate, thank you for giving us some baby gossip at last

Wed, 01 May 2013 09:58:34 GMT

At last, Kate’s pregnancy is doing what it should – giving us something to talk about.

Debbie Leigh: From parties to motherhood, what an incredible six years!

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 09:50:10 GMT

An incredible six years has passed since I first started writing a column for the YEP.

The Bloke: Talking at people at about 400 miles an hour

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 09:43:03 GMT

Hi, my name’s Charlie Brooker and I’m a kind of TV pundit-cum-journalism