Donald MacInnes
Donald MacInnes writes Tales from the Water Cooler, which can be found every Saturday on page 2 of i. And, although a financial near-imbecile, he writes a weekly column in The Independent’s Money section, also on Saturdays. He writes regularly on a broad range of subjects in i’s Freeview section and occasionally fills in on Simon Kelner’s daily column when emotionally up to it. @DonaldAMacInnes
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Tales from the Water Cooler: Counting puffins so you don't have to
17 May 2013 05:55 PM
The five-yearly census of this seabird has started
You're smoking! There's something a little different about this season's candidates on the Apprentice
10 May 2013 05:45 PM
Tales from the Water Cooler: It looks like they all walked off Hollyoaks
Tales from the water cooler: How can you joke with a headline like that?
03 May 2013 05:36 PM
Sometimes a story's comic spark burns out before the first line
Donald MacInnes: A declassified peek at AA Milne's First World War propaganda
26 April 2013 06:40 PM
Tales from the Water Cooler
Donald MacInnes: Haggling at the souk - a fine day in the Life of Donald
26 April 2013 06:00 PM
In The Red
Donald MacInnes: Marketing drives me mad - and you can bet it will get worse
19 April 2013 09:00 PM
In The Red
I wonder if Osborne cried watching Titanic, too
19 April 2013 11:27 AM
If you're going to lose your composure, best do it in an ornate London cathedral with a flag-draped coffin mere feet away
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Breaking: Soldier killed in Woolwich machete attack named as Drummer Lee Rigby
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'Sickening, deluded and unforgivable': Horrific attack brings terror to London’s streets
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Grace Dent: I’m not sure how these people can avoid being called ‘bigots’. And the more ‘civilised’, the worse they are
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Ingrid Loyau-Kennett, the mother-of-two hailed as a hero for confronting Woolwich attackers, thought: 'better me than a child'
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Woolwich attack: The EDL will seek to exploit this evil crime for their own evil ends
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