True cost cast in stone
12:05pm Saturday 15th November 2008
As me an’ me marra were puttin’ the tram, The light it went oot, an’ me marra went wrang, Ye wad ha’e laughed had ye seen the gam, The De’il tyeuk me marra an’ aw gat the tram.
Comments (1)The slave trader of Bishop
9:56am Saturday 8th November 2008
OF all the statistics to tumble out of the American election, one of the more interesting is that 12 of Barack Obama’s 43 predecessors could have taken him to the White House as their slave.
Defining the Osborne
9:38am Saturday 25th October 2008
THERE’S no money, no donation and no wrong-doing, but the language finds George Osborne guilty. He’s not had an innocent-sounding beer on a boat with a bloke from Russia; he has been culpably hobnobbing and fraternising with a billionaire foreign oligarch while sipping drinks on a luxury yacht.
Conker crunch
9:41am Saturday 11th October 2008
COMING out of the inaugural North-East Shadow Monetary Policy Committee meeting in Durham City on Tuesday, I kicked a conker.
Going to the Wall – again
10:55am Saturday 4th October 2008
ON Monday evening, I became mesmerised by the red numbers running across my computer screen keeping me up to date, second by second and drop by drop, with the Dow Jones on Wall Street.
Farting in the face of science
10:30am Saturday 27th September 2008
FOR a killer, Mare’s Fart is an insignificant- looking plant. It’s straggly and scruffy, waste-high and toppling. It’s yellow in a grubby sort of a way – not as vivid or glowing as a dandelion or daffodil.
Dropping out with the Quakers
10:29am Saturday 20th September 2008
"Take one pound of the best opium, three quarters of good Verjuce (a vinegary juice squeezed from unripe green grapes), three ounces of nutmegs, one ounce of Saffron, boil them to a good thickness then put in half-a-pound of Sugar, three or four spoonfuls of new Yeast, then set it near the fire for six or eight weeks, and then set it in the open air for six or eight weeks until it is thin like Syrup, then decant it from the bottom and filter it, putting it into Bottles, with a bit of sugar in each Bottle.”
The tingle factor
12:36pm Saturday 13th September 2008
FOR 220 years, Friars Wynd in Richmond has tingled with anticipation. It is a narrow, flag-lined lane that trips through a stone archway and along past the rough windowless walls of the Georgian Theatre Royal until it reaches the Pay Box double doors.
Of ways and strays
11:55am Saturday 6th September 2008
I’VE been meandering this week. I set out in my car – it’s too wet to walk or cycle – in a purposeful fashion but always manage to meander off course distractedly.
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