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Last updated: 10th March, 2010 09:00am

You can bank on the irony

Profile by Alan Bunce

Four different bank managers have told me the same thing in recent weeks.

Last updated: 4th March, 2010 11:00am

Stop the barbarism and start the reform

Profile by Maurice O'Brien

WHEN will we stop treating the NHS like some spoiled brat who must be indulged to the full to ensure all the toys don't disappear from the pram in some epic tantrum?

Last updated: 2nd March, 2010 08:00pm

In the mail this week: Chew Lips

Profile by Reading Rocks Steady

It was with excitement that I opened this particular jiffy bag, after the storming performance electro trio Chew Lips gave when I saw them at the Oakford earlier this year.

Last updated: 25th February, 2010 11:00am

Who's voting for identity safeguards?

Profile by Maurice O'Brien

SHAMEFUL. Somebody named Clinton Proud's wiped out 25 years of my life, if not my entire existence.

Last updated: 25th February, 2010 09:00am

Martin Salter's Westminster Diary, February 25, 2010

Profile by Martin Salter MP

On Sunday we heard the 'shock horror' allegations that the Prime Minister occasionally loses his rag with his civil servants.

Last updated: 24th February, 2010 04:24pm

It's non-party time

Profile by Alan Bunce

IT'S not often I wished I lived in Wokingham. But last week I did.

Last updated: 18th February, 2010 09:00pm

Rob Wilson's Westminster Diary, February 18, 2010

Profile by Rob Wilson MP

MONETARY union via the Euro was always half-baked because it was never really a genuine economic union.

Last updated: 18th February, 2010 01:42pm

Sadly this war is just not cricket

Profile by Maurice O'Brien

THE three years in which erstwhile defence secretary John Reid declared Britain would be happy to leave Afghanistan "without firing one shot" will soon become four.

Last updated: 15th February, 2010 10:00am

The future in the clouds

Profile by Alan Bunce

ONE thing most apparent about the Thames Valley's IT firms is their non stop march into the future.

Last updated: 12th February, 2010 01:00pm

There'll be more tears before second-home time

Profile by Maurice O'Brien

GOOD to see the aristocracy, either real or manufactured, can hold their own when it comes to dipping into the public purse.