Tag: Column
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On Pointe
Here’s a piece I wrote for Western Morning News, published on April 1st (that’s important). In it I explain how the fates have conspired to make me a middle-aged Billy Elliot…
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Classic Column: The Olden Days
If there’s one thing I love to write, it would have to be newspaper columns. These 5 minute reads give a columnist the chance to take a 600 word flight of fancy.
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Why I’ve written to Santa for a Spider-Man costume…
My son’s superhero of choice is Spider-Man. I’d like to say that the obsession with blue and red spandex-clad fella is driving me up the wall, but it’s my son who’s doing the climbing in our house.
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Eastern Daily Press – Wrestling Column
There are very few people who can pull of a singlet unitard. It didn’t take me long to discover I wasn’t one of them.
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Sorry Sir Paul… Eastern Daily Press Column
I’m a little bit bored of celebrities jumping on the bandwagon and releasing children’s books. Actually bored doesn’t quite cover it. I feel the glut of actors, actresses, singers and presenters using their fame to dominate the world of children’s literature is actively unhelpful. They’re all at it, Fearne Cotton, Miranda Hart, David Baddiel… the…
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The Metro – Brexit might literally kill me
“They told us Brexit would be a piece of cake – the trouble is eating cake isn’t always great for diabetics”
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I don’t want to dance – Eastern Daily Press
Why is dancing in public the only part of life where people just aren’t allowed to say no? I’m going to let you into a little secret, a lot of people (of whom I may be one) don’t like parties, weddings and the like. They see them as necessary evils, somewhere they need to show…
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Metro.co.uk piece on Bullying.
I still remember the whistling in my ears. A sudden sense of the world being unsteady and the ground coming up to meet me. Landing hard, I was knocked out. Moments later, my eyes opened as several feet walked away. ‘You showed him,’ said an excited voice. The thing was, he hadn’t shown me anything.…
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Who really wants to be Beach Body Ready?
In my experience, summer in this country is so fleeting that several times I’ve popped inside to make a cup of tea and missed it completely. “What did you do over the summer?” people will ask. “I ate half a bag of Monster Munch. To be honest, I wasted half of the summer struggling to…
Chris McGuire: Writer 