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Deface the candidates - 20 March 2008
Mitt Romney with his mormon Mitts,
Would like to stroke your daughter's...
A poetic summary of the US presidential hopefuls and has-beens
Philip Womack - 20 March 2008
'I think it is all part of a deeper malaise. And the arch-villainess of this all is Mary Poppins.'
PC Flatfoot - 20 March 2008
"My uniformed colleagues feel they have put up with enough, the talk is of fighting back." eyebrow gets the views from one of the boys in blue
Nancy Alsop - 20 March 2008
"Ok, so she did add that her 48 year rule over the descendants of our home-grown jailbirds has been nothing other than ‘a privilege and a pleasure,’ but then hey, she’s bound to be pretty polite, she’s the Queen after all"
Philip Womack - 20 March 2008
"If one is known for not being witty, then one can tackle any social situation with ease – one can sit at a dinner table, calmly appreciating the 'chat' that goes on around one, without having to be constantly amusing."
Peter Simpson - 20 March 2008
"A glance at your watch tells you it's lunchtime – you smile indulgently at the carol singers outside Waitrose, throw money at a couple of beggars and, without entering a single shop, you sink into the Queen's Arms."
Anna Arco - 20 March 2008
Most of us are so well accustomed to spin, media manipulation, mud-slinging, that we feel above this sort of thing - but are we?
Matthew Bell - 20 March 2008
"But hold on a minute, who are these supposedly devious back-stabbing thrusting young oiks that nobody has ever heard of?"
Simon Busch - 20 March 2008
Everybody, from pub philosophers to science journalists, is feeling the tug of the new Darwinism. Simon Busch raises an eyebrow...
Sarah Titterton - 20 March 2008
"There is no way we could fight off a foreign invader. Rhode Island could take us on. Hell, Slough could take us on."
Alan White - 26 September 2007
'a little story slipped under the radar of most of the mainstream media. It involves a girl called Tori, from Atlanta, and the Private Security Company Association of Iraq...'
Justin Huggler - 03 October 2007
Ever thought about holidaying in Burma? The road to Mandalay is paved with gold
Matthew Bell - 20 March 2008
Tony Benn, who at 82 is Britain's oldest tubthumping lefty, trampolines creakily back into mainstream politics.
Vanessa Walters - 20 March 2008
Dilated pupils, gurning jaws and tracked arms; what next for our world leaders..?
Anna Blackaby - 20 March 2008
"it is intolerable that a country which has the death penalty should suggest that Italy has a problem with its prison regime." Ding ding, round two to the Italians
