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Plenty of Saints, but none were worthy of wearing famous halo

AT THE end of every book or on the cover of the paperback editions you’d find the familiar haloed matchstick man and a message from his creator: “Watch for the sign of the Saint. He will be back.” Read

RIN: Talking WM Sense

The poet Edward Young once said: “Procrastination is the thief of time”. I disagree, I think commuting, laundry and queues at the supermarket are the thieves of time, but I know what he meant. Read

It’s not A grades for all

TWO weeks ago I went to a state primary school in the Midlands to receive money pupils had raised for a charity. Read

Planning issues are complicated enough without legal wrangles

IT’S rich indeed to learn Carmarthenshire Council is considering the use of council taxpayers’ money to prosecute any council taxpayer considered to have libelled a council official. Read

We’re all guilty of ‘fact embroidery’

IF there was one thing more cringeworthy than Lee McQueen’s reverse pterodactyl impression in The Apprentice’s "job interview from hell", it was his whopping CV fibs. Read

Barbers who can’t cut it

WHEN I take myself off to the tonsorial artiste, I usually demand something simple. A trim and tidy are all I ask for. Read

Bo and Yves such a loss

IT’S a sad week in the creative world when both designer Yves Saint Laurent and rock‘n’roll icon Bo Diddley met their makers. Read

End this sick rule

WHAT with getting rid of the 10p tax and the retrospective tax on older cars I thought that there couldn’t possibly be anything else that the Government could do for a while to seriously alienate people. Read

Huw could be the man who...

MERTHYR AM Huw Lewis, it is fair to say, is no fan of this column (“ignorant, thoughtless poison” was how he once put it). Read

Women’s Own: Lynne Barrett-Lee

Gave me the creeps, it did. It was like I’d ventured into some scuzzy underworld that I thought only advertised its wares in phone boxes Read

Right royal encounter

IN the good old days, those where I used to get out and about a bit more, I was invited to the Royal Variety Performance. Read

Beware bigotry at the ballot box

BROTHERS and sisters, comrades, workers of the world. Let us today stand up in praise of the “white working class male,” that stalwart of fair play, decency and honest toil. Read

Brown’s biggest battle is driving his message to ‘Picasso Mum’

IN 1992, the Tories pulled off a surprise election win by concentrating their appeal on the emblematic Mondeo Man. Read

Fern’s big lesson for us is to tell the truth

IT’S time to lay off Fern Britton. Ever since a Sunday newspaper revealed that she hadn’t lost five stone by bike riding alone, and had actually had a gastric band fitted, it has been open season on Fern. Read

Sugar’s con-artist television antics left this viewer with a sour taste

I WATCHED an episode of The Apprentice – all those eager applicants busting a gut to outdo one another in the arts of arse-licking the boss and fooling the public. Read

He hasn’t played the ‘race card’ – but black hopes rest with Obama

IT IS a sobering coincidence that Barack Obama’s clinching of the Democratic nomination comes 40 years after the assassination of Robert Kennedy, brother of JFK. Read

That face wash is hot stuff... but maybe it needs a little snail slime

YOU know you’ve reached a certain point when relatives send face cream as gifts and work colleagues suggest you review anti-aging treatments. Read

Water, water everywhere except the tourist trail

BANK Holiday Monday, and there was yours truly, frosted beer to hand, in a bar looking down on a sun-scorched beach lazily lapped by the Ionian Sea, the latest bulletins from Barry Island speaking of howling winds and driving rain and toe-curling temperatures. Read

Diary of a Diet

A belly band could be the way to a slimmer Hannah, but she’s not sure she has the stomach for it Read

Culture of targets is killing the support police need

A BITING report has warned that the middle classes have lost confidence in the police, alienated by a service which seems to target ordinary people to fill Government crime quotas. Read