The airport millions: food for thought
Friend of mine came up with a great retrospective idea the other day.
View ArticleBat's entertainment
The end of the Bradford League cricket season means that I'll have to find alternative ways of diverting myself on Saturday afternoons until April.
View ArticleNo country for old men
To steal a thought from T S Eliot, there has been "a perfect conspiracy of approval" directed at the film version of Cormac McCarthy's novel No Country For Old Men.
View ArticleA Brit for Kylie? She should be so lucky
As a measure of genuine talent The Brit Awards are about as valid as The Turner Prize is for art and The Booker for novels.
View ArticleA bit of Pickles is what this place needs
Wasn't it good to see Eric Jack Pickles back on his old stamping ground the other day?
View ArticleNot wild about Harry coming home
Bringing back Prince Harry from Afghanistan was a mistake. Once the media made a song-a-dance out of his whereabouts military chiefs should simply have moved him to another area and allowed him to...
View ArticleWhy should cheap shops get such a pounding?
Recent complaints by T&A correspondents about charity shops and pound shops in the city centre entirely miss the point.
View ArticleAnother voice of my childhood silenced
One by one they pass away, the invisible voices that kept me company in my childhood.
View ArticleTank's for nothing
Reports that criticise Bradford or some aspect of the city are not always wrong-headed, we shouldn’t make the mistake of being parochially defensive about criticism.
View ArticleCooking challenge
I can't have been the only soul in Bradford who watched the last episode of Jamie Oliver's campaigning Ministry of Food programme on Channel 4.
View ArticleTeam responsibilty
Rhys Evans is quite right. The Bradford City goalkeeper said: "At some point people have got to say this has to stop; but that's got to be during the game. It's no good reflecting about this...
View ArticleKaraoke democracy
Cigarette-box democracy refers to the post-war era when people worked in a place for 30 or 40 years and signed off aged 60 or 65 with an inappropriate corporate gift.
View ArticleIs it time for City to leave Valley Parade?
Victorian poet Arthur Hugh Clough once asked himself a very serious question: "Would I lay down my life for the average British female?"
View ArticleScared of change? Have faith.
Some believe that either Bradford will become a Western Islamabrad, culturally divided and segregated, or an ideal kind of Bradistan, a happy amalgam of East and West based on tolerance, equality and...
View ArticleDig in for a better world
Happening to catch the last few minutes of Gardeners' World on BBC2, while waiting for the Wild West docu-drama about Billy the Kid, I had a revelation.
View ArticleA bus driver's lot...
Unless you travel by bus in Bradford during the evening rush hour the abuse of bus lanes by other drivers won't mean much to you - unless you are a culprit.
View ArticleLords a-leaping towards democracy?
Interesting to see the division among the Metropolitan District's MPs regarding the proposal to inject the House of Lords with a lethal dose of democracy.
View ArticleThe extreme price of the pursuit of truth
I met Ian Wooldridge only once. He turned up in the Press box at Valley Parade for Bradford City's all-important match against Ipswich Town the season the team just missed promotion to what was then...
View ArticleIslam: the urgence of engagement
According to a Muslim acquaintance - we are friendly but do not know each other well enough yet to claim the bond of friendship - truth and patience are two of the four Koranic conditions for success.
View ArticleMovin' on up
On February 21 Lent began with a nice piece of news: the house I had been renting since September 2004 was being put up for sale.
View ArticleYea, though I walk through the valley...
"No matter how I struggle and strive/ I'll never get out of this world alive," sang Hank Williams, who died in the back of a limousine, New Year's Day, 1953.
View ArticleWise moves break the zero barrier at last
You really have to be a tree-swinging, knuckle-scraping curmudgeon not to feel even a twinge of admiration for Leeds United.
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