THERE are certain well established ways of handling disgrace and professional incompetence these days.

PLEASE, Gordon, you can yell at me all you like, but just do it. Call a snap election and let’s get it over with.

EQUALITY’S real enemies are the fanatics who preach it. I must confess that every time I hear the latest pronouncement by Harriet Harman I cringe at how zealous she sounds.

SOMETIMES we newspaper columnists paint a bleak picture of life in modern Britain as we rail against injustice, wrongdoing and the sheer greed and stupidity of many of those who govern us.

IT has been one of those weeks when you think you are living in a Jeremy Kyle horror show.

BEING a Yorkshireman, Sir Michael Parkinson doesn’t mince his words and rarely have I see a report as bluntly condemnatory as that which came out recently from the Government’s dignity ambassador.

WE all know that southerners are softies who fly into a blind panic at the first hint of a bit of the white stuff.

MY principal reason for opposing a return of capital punishment is the worry that our legal system gets it wrong far too often, or certainly seems to in the light of convictions which are overturned later.

PERHAPS the seven sixth formers at a Cumbrian school, who complained that they were victims of discrimination because they were asked to attend the annual carol service despite their atheist views, are the free thinking intelligensia of our future. I doubt it though.

HOW sadly ironic that, at a time when we should be celebrating a birth, we are told that more than 5,000 teenagers in Britain underwent repeat abortions last year.