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Columnists for 1 March 2008

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Hain raps ‘handouts’

Mar 1 2008

BEING shorn of office and influence hasn’t dimmed Peter Hain’s appetite for stirring the political pot, if his comeback Commons speech is anything to go by....

Had something of a midlife crisis in January.

Mar 1 2008

Actually, I hope it wasn’t a midlife crisis given that that would mean I’m not going to make my 60th birthday....

Calling children ‘tots’ is a bungle and I’m reacting with fury to slam it now

Mar 1 2008

RECENTLY I wrote about a secret language spoken only by newspaper journalists. I called it “journalese” and defined it as the words you see in newspapers but would never hear a non-journo use in a million years....

Women's Own: Coping with ill behaviour

Mar 1 2008

DANG and blast it, I’m ill. Horrid flu bug. Caught it off Pete, who had it last week. Such is the price one pays for selfless devotion to sick husbands. I told my dad. “That’s why I never go out,” he said sagely....

Mind Matters: Time to debunk St David's stereotypes

Mar 1 2008

AND so to another St David’s Day. A day when centuries of debilitating Welsh stereotypes are debunked by soldiers taking part in, erm, leek-eating contests, and schoolgirls wearing shawls and pointy hats....

When punishment simply doesn’t fit the crime...

Mar 1 2008

AT the risk of inviting further ridicule from some of my colleagues and regular readers, I’ll reveal that this week I’ve been attempting to read Crime and Punishment, that fiendishly difficult and long classic novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky....