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Get a life, Celine, not another pair of shoes

CELINE DION owns 3,000 pairs of shoes. Read that again slowly. Three thousand pairs of shoes. How can anyone have that many shoes? Why would anyone want that many pairs of shoes? Read

Gay liberation is here to stay – it’s high time grey liberation took off

BACK in the 1960s, there were campaigns for Women’s Liberation, Black is Beautiful, Gay Liberation, and rights for the disabled. Suddenly all these groups were loudly proclaiming: “We are fed up with being treated as inferior.” Read

Tomos Livingstone

Tax proves rather taxing for Mr Brown

Chancellor Alistair Darling surprised Westminster this week with a package to tidy up the tax row. Political Editor Tomos Livingstone examines the implications for taxpayers – and the Government’s reputation Read

David Williamson

Let’s forget great cinema – Indi’s back to save the American dream

THE imminent prospect of Indiana Jones returning to the cinema screen for a fourth swashbuckling epic has set pulses racing faster than any creature in a Grand National. Read

Dan O'Neill

Things have changed since that 1927 win

G’DAY! Allow me to introduce myself. I am your Cardiff City cup final correspondent. Read

Tryst Williams

Mind Matters: Tryst Matters

Children’s memories are vivid, surprising, enduring, and as absorbent as salt on a wine stain. As a parent, that brings massive responsibility Read

Hannah Jones

Women’s Own: Lynne Barrett-Lee

I know, I thought, we pay a silly amount of money every month to be VIP customers and have someone call once a year to try and sell us Isas Read

The First Word: Hannah Jones

OH, to believe in something with passion. Can you just imagine what that’s like? Speaking as someone who’s too lazy to have hobbies let alone form fancy, intelligent, workable opinions, it amazes me when people are convinced that so-and-so is right, or that A and B will always lead to C as long as you consider D. Read

Labour needs something to say to Wales

IN COUNTY halls up and down the land deals are being done in the wake of the council elections that did so much to send Labour into a tailspin. Read

Do it yourself or get someone else in? It depends how old you are

MY mother rings to share her woes. Decorators are arriving tomorrow and should she take the curtains down for them? I say this might be silly as she is 68 years old and the windows are quite high up. Can’t she get the painter to wobble around on ladders? Read

Hannah Jones

Diary of a Diet

WHO knew that a packet of white chocolate mice, sugar-free jelly, Hula Hoops and glass of squash, again without the sweet goodness, could cause so much trouble? Read

Dan O'Neill

Woodbines and a pint of light for cup heroes!

CITY for the Cup. And we’ve been here before. But only a handful really remember... the year 1927, and a Cardiff so different to today’s town that you know what LP Hartley meant when he wrote that “the past is a foreign country”. Read

Denise Robertson

Adoption was a travesty

LAST week two senior judges strongly criticised a local authority that forced through the adoption of a baby girl, abandoned by her mother, against the wishes of her father. Read

Steve Dube

Why this French farmer wants farm subsidies to disappear

“I HAVE always been an optimist, but I think I should have been a pessimist and then the little progress we have made would have made me happy.” Read

Valleys boy Daniel gives Big Apple a Welsh flavour

WE were standing in the most marketable square mile on the planet and two of the biggest faces glowing on the giant illuminated adverts belonged to a Welshman and Welshwoman. In Times Square they call the digital hoardings “spectaculars” – and the striking features of Joe Calzaghe and Duffy certainly added to the dizzying spectacle of New York’s commercial heart. Read

Watch out, there are Mallercisers about!

IT was a clear message. “Leap into summer”, it said. If only it were that easy. Read

Matt Withers

First ladies in waiting for Lib-Dem leadership

LAST week, following local election results which the Welsh Liberal Democrats could justifiably claim as making steady progress, I remarked that all that was left to settle was for leader Mike German to keep his promise, stand aside and make way for his successor. Read

Nathan Bevan

Amy's pappy daze

I WAS watching a documentary about crack scarecrow Amy Winehouse the other night. Read

Matt Withers

Clever or just a little ‘Lib Dim’?

MOST people are in general agreement that Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg’s interview with Piers Morgan in GQ, in which he boasted of bedding “no more than 30” women was a PR disaster for the wet-behind-the-ears politico. Read

Angharad Mair

Stop giving us the brown stuff, Gordon

GORDON Brown tells us that he feels our pain. “I am someone who believes passionately in opportunity and fairness,” he says. Read

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