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Last updated: Friday 19 May 2006 Why don't you meet real people Mr Blair? THE most important function of any Government is to ensure the safety of its citizens. Don't write our World Cup hopes off yet WITH all the doom and gloom about you could have been forgiven for thinking that England had already been knocked out of the 2006 World Cup. Why Charles Clarke must go now I'M sure you all recall the fanfare that accompanied new Labour's ascent to power during the 1997 election victory: "Things Can Only Get Better". Football's feelgood factor THERE'S a passage in the film Close Encounters of the Third Kind which has stuck with me ever since I saw the movie. Far too harsh a sentence, judge BY ALL accounts, prior to last September, Rachael Victoria Phillips had led a good life. A regional casino is not a gamble A RECENT discussion between a local councillor and his vicar highlights one of the barriers supporters of a regional casino face. Mr Blair must stop dithering My good friend Ashok Kumar certainly seems to have stirred up a hornets' nest with his article in The Northern Echo earlier this week. Are these spendthrifts fit to govern? ANYONE who goes around telling people how to live their lives must expect to face close scrutiny themselves. Salutary message from a safe haven As a detective chief inspector in Hartlepool in the mid-nineties, I was often asked to speak in other force areas about the success we had had in cutting crime. How the mightly have fallen A couple of years ago I travelled to Sunderland by train to meet Neil Herron, the man behind the Metric Martyrs campaign. The people must decide POLITICS will never be the new football, but it's good to see local people taking such a healthy interest in the way they are governed. Forces seek a day of reckoning Prince Charles isn't the only person to emerge this week as an unlikely dissident. The day MPs got right Valentine's Day 2006 should go down in history as the day in which the country's MPs showed they really cared about Britain and its health. A blatant injustice system THE justice system in this country is now in such disarray it's a wonder that anyone is ever jailed. They're only human, after all NEVER assume that the people at the head of organisations are brighter than the rest of us. Why the police hold the key Anyone questioning the wisdom of putting the fight against anti-social behaviour at the top of the public agenda should reflect on the horrific deaths of a couple in Manchester earlier this week. Why can't people be nice at work? Try as he might, the BBC's chief rottweiler just couldn't stop the mask from slipping to reveal the real Jeremy Paxman. Our national game must be saved There was a lot of football played over the festive break - but after watching some on television it wasn't goals, saves or even the petulance of players that left its mark on me. A better offer for prostitutes Recently I was at a road junction close to Middlesbrough Town Hall at 4pm when a young woman carrying Sainsbury's carrier bags full of shopping approached the car. I'm sorry to mention this, but... There are few things in life that get me more annoyed than impoliteness. It's probably because bad manners are so easily avoided and good manners can make such a difference as to how people feel. Why this camel won't do It is said that a camel is a horse designed by committee, and there's something of a camel about the Government's solution to investigating the July 7 London bombings. Valuable lessons for the future To the uninitiated, town twinning and town hall receptions are probably regarded as peripheral, possibly unnecessary, functions of the council. In search of our own X Factor AS regular readers will know, I'm not a great fan of reality TV. I find the likes of Big Brother, The Farm and I'm A Celebrity an instant turn off and it continues to amaze me why so many seemingly intelligent people continue to watch such drivel. Why death must be an option Unfortunately we have to accept the fact that there are some people in society who are so wicked, so evil, that they can pull the trigger to end a life without any feeling or remorse.
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