North East news columnists, comment & opinion

BNP in European Parliament is no laughing matter

THERE’S an old Groucho Marx joke about how he’d never join a club that would have someone like him as a member. Read

Fiery Gordon cooks up a storm

FOUL-MOUTHED Gordon Ramsay clearly went too far when he likened Australian TV presenter Tracy Grimshaw to a pig. Read

Wee spot of bother with BG

MY dog BG was in fine form this week, embarrassing me in true doggie style. We were in the village of Ovingham to open its annual Goose Fair. Read

Whinge of the week

COLD calling. The person on the other end always utters the same words. “Is that Miss Tomson? How are you today?” Read

Ed’s Jack the Ripper criticism is a bit rich

NICE to see former Sun editor Kelvin MacKenzie still breaking news stories . . . even if it was more than 120 years after the event. Read

Lewis Hamilton's speedy demise

LEWIS Hamilton might as well get a copyright logo printed on his forehead. A new painting, in motor oil, has been unveiled. Read

Alan Ross - You listen to him, so why not read him?

MPs don’t get it

HAVE our MPs “got it” yet? I ask, because at every stage of this slow slide into total public contempt, politicians pop up on programmes like Question Time, and waffle on. Read

HMS Kellington on the scrap heap

I’M writing about an old friend today, with a certain amount of regret. Like a lot of us who are getting on a bit, this lady has been wobbly on her pins of late, sometimes leaning over at an alarming angle and, more recently, she’s nearly toppled right over on her side. Read