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1. November 8 2007
South Manchester Reporter, Thursday 8 November 2007MANY of you will be wearing a red poppy in tribute to the people who fought and fell in the interminable wars that have haunted our world since time immemorial.
2. Fans divided over FC United
South Manchester Reporter, Thursday 15 November 2007AN AWFUL lot of people seem to be getting their knickers in a twist about non-league football these days.
3. November 15 2007
South Manchester Reporter, Thursday 15 November 2007SANTA’S in training, it's official according to the gospel of Bluewater Shopping Centre in Greenhithe, Kent. Bluewater is an upmarket version of our woeful Manchester Arndale Centre. Bluewater makes the Arndale look like a cheap public inconvenience (and I'm being kind here!).
4. November 15 2007
South Manchester Reporter, Thursday 15 November 2007BATHOS has always appealed to me - the juxtaposition of the profound with the banal, the sublime with the commonplace.
5. November 22 2007
South Manchester Reporter, Thursday 22 November 2007PICTURE this: A low sun shining weakly through rain-sodden clouds, and the sulphurous smell of coal smoke from a thousand chimneys as the fumes drift slowly, grudgingly, apologetically, over the roofs of a south Manchester suburb.
6. Punks didn't make my day
South Manchester Reporter, Thursday 22 November 2007JUST over 30 years ago a band of angry young men arrived in the city play a gig to a handful of disaffected youths at Lesser Free Trade Hall.
7. Dreading a WKD summer
South Manchester Reporter, Thursday 22 November 2007OH THOSE Russians. Was it too much to ask for a summer enjoying a major football tournament free of flags flapping from car window; heaving pubs dressed out in white and red; and seeing the country drive its self crazy with its own over-inflated ego?
8. November 29 2007
South Manchester Reporter, Thursday 29 November 2007THE things we humans do eh? There are so many people walking around with things stuck in their ears that for a while I thought everybody, except me, had gone deaf and that the ear inserts were hearing aids. I couldn't understand why even young people had such bad hearing.
9. December 6 2007
South Manchester Reporter, Thursday 6 December 2007ACCORDING to a new survey, ten percent of people reading this will not have washed their hands after they went to the loo! Well done that ten percent as it means your aim was true and there was no necessity to wash your hands; unlike the other aimless, slap-dash ninety percent.
10. Why I'm not flying the flag
South Manchester Reporter, Thursday 6 December 2007GET back to your own country. Those weren’t quite the words used by my critic in last week’s Letters Page, but the message wasn’t a million miles away.