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Trader tells the truth shock! 29 Sep 2011 | 12:36 am

Arsène Wenger – clearly the worst football manager ever 27 Apr 2011 | 10:23 am

For my sins I’m a bit of an Arsenal fan. Like the glutton for punishment I am, I also happen to be a Guardian reader (probably no surprise to anyone who’s read my increasingly infrequent pinko leftie-...

A personal view on smoking 9 Mar 2011 | 07:57 am

OK, best to start with my cards on the table. I am a smoker, I have been for around a quarter of a century (with a few brief flashes of willpower in between) and I work in the pub trade. You could say...

Wayne Rooney – someone have a word… 2 Mar 2011 | 04:11 am

To the great surprise of just about no one, the FA and referee Mark Clattenberg have ducked out of making Manchester United’s Wayne Rooney face charges for his blatant elbowing of Wigan’s James McCart...

The fire of protest spreads 22 Feb 2011 | 06:24 am

A spark of pro-democracy protest – almost unnoticed in parts of ‘The West’ – appeared in Tunisia last month and has now turned into a fire of potentially historic proportions reaching across North Afr...

The madness of ‘Deadline Day’ 2 Feb 2011 | 03:24 am

Mercifully, this was my first ‘Transfer Deadline Day’ for some years which remained untouched by the hype and breathless speculation of Sky Sports News (I cancelled my subscription some months ago). A...

It’s hard not to gloat about The Ashes 30 Dec 2010 | 05:48 am

I began fiddling around with this post before play had even started on the final day of the Fourth Ashes Test in Melbourne, and that is probably another indication of how annoying fans of English cric...

Tuition Fees – A mess of our own making 10 Dec 2010 | 08:45 am

And so the government has won the controversial tuition fees vote 323 to 302, giving them a majority of 21. While the Tories have escaped much of the spleen-venting over the issue (presumably people e...

The Alternative Vote – a step in the right direction 1 Dec 2010 | 01:40 am

In an ideal world I don’t think I’d have much to do with the Alternative Vote method of electing MPs, the option which will be put forward in next year’s referendum on Electoral Reform. I’m a long-sta...