Pete Abel, cycling campaigner: Turning Manchester into a great cycling city
Bradley Wiggins fantastic achievement in becoming the first British cyclist to win the Tour de France will do nothing but boost cycling’s already growing popularity. More people see the benefits of...
View ArticleThe Baron Frankal Blog: China
China creates an economy the size of Greece every eleven and a half weeks
View ArticlePaul Taylor: Give thanks for this nation of whingers
There is an expression: "When fate hands you a lemon, make lemonade". Well, when fate hands me a lemon, I prefer to grumble with appropriate sourness, then grudgingly soldier on with life. This is the...
View ArticleDeanna Delamotta: Arrogant cyclists are such a ‘Dam nuisance
I’m no fan of cycling having avoided bikes since the long hot summer of 76 when my brother tied me to a washing line pole and left me sweltering for borrowing his Chopper without asking. Yet I’ve never...
View ArticleArrogant cyclists are such a nuisance, and Corrie hots up
The perils of getting in the way of cyclists in Amsterdam
View ArticleDr Brian Sloan's Blog - The Big Dipper
'... it is low growth, but growth nonetheless...'
View ArticlePat Karney: How to deal with the internet trolls
Manchester councillor and city centre chief Pat Karney writes for the M.E.N. and asks whether internet trolls should be held accountable for their postings ...
View ArticleHarness this feelgood factor
A funny thing has happened to the country over the past four days.
View ArticlePaul Taylor: Why growing up is hard to do these days
When my eldest son turned 21 in March, we celebrated, of course. But I was uncertain why this was any kind of landmark.
View ArticleDeanna Delamotta: Why athletics rules for the masses
For all our successes on the lake and in the velodrome the Olympic stadium is where the average punter would want to be because of the universal appeal of track and field. Like football, athletics is...
View ArticleDavid Ottewell: Manchester Velodrome sparked our cycling revolution
As of this morning, the British cycling team – based at the Manchester Velodrome – has won five of the seven gold medals awarded on the track at London 2012.
View ArticlePaul Taylor: Britain - this great nation of strivers and skivers
The Olympics may have pushed virtually everything else in the news agenda to the margins, but this week – the first anniversary of the summer riots – we were forced to consider another, less cheery...
View ArticleDeanna Delamotta: Worried about second marriage to FirstGroup
Deanna Delamotta considers the future of rail travel
View ArticleDeanna Delamotta: Why Manchester can never close gruesome Moors Murder...
The legacy of the Moors Murders is not one of ghoulish fascination with a crime that many feel should be ‘put to bed’. Here in Manchester, those hideous murders symbolised the death of innocence and...
View ArticleDavid Ottewell: Cult of personality is a dangerous thing
If we have learned nothing else from the bizarre soap opera surrounding Julian Assange, we have learned this: the cult of personality is always a dangerous thing. First we had the Wikileaks founder...
View ArticleBlog: Dr Brian Sloan - Ports and Harbours
'...the relationship between stability and diversification could be established at the North West region, but not... Greater Manchester.'
View ArticleDavid Ottewell: Leaders need caution to judge the nation's mood
To the average British voter, there is something uniquely mystifying about America’s modern-day Republicans. This is, after all, a party with a would-be senator who claims women are unlikely to get...
View ArticlePaul Taylor: Essex Lion provides the mane attraction for silly season
What with the Olympics, we have been deprived of our usual silly season, when the nation goes on holiday and the media suffer a news famine. But it put in a belated appearance with news of a lion on...
View ArticleWill Paralympics bring another gold rush?
Wall-to-wall coverage of the Olympics was guaranteed on the Beeb from day one but Channel 4 takes a more tentative approach to screening the Paralympics today, sandwiching in a bit of Noel Edmonds and...
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