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    Something For The Weekend 26

    12th March 2010 | 1 comments | 3 people like this

    What is thick skinned, stubborn – and NEVER wrong? Yep, you’ve got it: a politician! And all those qualities might come in mighty handy if you find yourself the target of an inquiry into how your actions may have adversely affected a war – the Iraq War, to name but one.

    So, it came as no surprise that after Prime Minister Gordon Brown (aka Gord), head held high in the face...

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  • Something For The Weekend 20

    Something For The Weekend 20

    22nd January 2010 | 0 comments | 2 people like this

    Tiger Woods has finally found residential accommodation that will suit him down to a tee for the foreseeable future – in a top establishment treating sex addicts.

    Yep, good old Tigrr apparently checked into the Pine Grove Behavioural Health and Addiction Services clinic in the remote town of Hattiesburg, Mississippi, on December 30, to undertake a six-week ‘Gentle Path’ treatment programme.

    Ah! Well, that explains why he’s been out of the news...

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  • Something For The Weekend 19

    Something For The Weekend 19

    15th January 2010 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree

    Alastair Campbell is a very clever man. As Tony Blair’s ‘spin doctor’ in the run-up to the Iraq War, he was – and still is for that matter – one of a rare breed of professionals capable of convincing anyone that a cesspit smells of roses!

     Spin is a true art. Its definition is open to interpretation, but I have always regarded it as manipulation: sift through given facts, pick out...

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  • Something For The Weekend 11

    Something For The Weekend 11

    6th November 2009 | 3 comments | 1 person likes this

    Like him or loathe him, Alan Sugar never minces his words. Whether heading up BBC TV’s The Apprentice or acting as Gordon Brown’s business tsar, he always says what he thinks.

     But was ‘Big Al’ (or Lord Sugar, as he is now known) justified in publicly dismissing owners of small struggling companies as ‘moaners’ who live in ‘Disney World’ when turned down for a bank loan – all at a time...

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Phil Wadley

Phil Wadley

Journalist Phil Wadley is a former assistant editor at the West Sussex County Times in Horsham. He started his career as a reporter with the East Anglian Daily Times in Ipswich, before joining Britain's most northerly newspaper, the Shetland Times in Lerwick. After five years he winged his way back South, eventually landing at the County Times via an unplanned detour into the world of commercial aviation with British Airways! Phil is a dedicated follower of news and current affairs.