John Walsh: If only the magical Angela Carter were around to record life in 2012
09 February 2012 12:00 AM
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John Walsh: Every subject is worthy of study at school – especially nailcare and horses
02 February 2012 12:00 AM
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John Walsh: The poor guy - he'll have to change his stationery
01 February 2012 12:00 AM
Blimey, that was quick. Barely an hour after the announcement, Sir Fred Goodwin's Wikipedia entry was headed "Fred Goodwin". It looked so bare. Without that all-important Sir, Francis Drake and Walter Raleigh were just historical geezers not heroes. The contraction "Fred" in "Sir Fred" sounded cool; Fred Goodwin just sounds like a bloke down the bookie's.
John Walsh: Self-improvement is on the rise. At last, a true return to Victorian values
19 January 2012 12:00 AM
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John Walsh: A hatchet job is not the real thing unless it's done with wit and learning
12 January 2012 12:00 AM
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John Walsh: Like the music they played, life after radio for the ex-DJs is a tale of hits and misses...
06 January 2012 12:00 AM
It's no joke being a Radio 1 DJ. After storming the airwaves in your 20s as a silver-tongued cavalier, astounding the kids with your edgy repartee, thrilling the laydeez with your saucy banter, making a fortune talking motor-mouth piffle for three hours a day and hosting "roadshows" for listless radio fans in muddy Berkshire fields on Saturday afternoons, the only way is down.
John Walsh: The 24 OMs who show that even in Britain there's a place for meritocracy
05 January 2012 12:00 AM
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John Walsh: Save record shops – buy CDs
23 December 2011 12:00 AM
It's been a shocking experience to see our only major music chain going dark
John Walsh: Without Aurum's help the award could not go ahead
07 December 2011 12:00 AM
Alice Oswald is published by Faber & Faber, whose profits were boosted for years by royalties from Cats, Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical version of Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by TS Eliot. Eliot once worked at Lloyds Bank. Does Ms Oswald not feel sullied by the association with Lord Lloyd-Webber? Or by the evidence of Eliot's Mammon-worship?
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