http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/features/columnists/petermullen/ The Northern Echo /features/columnists/petermullen/ en-gb Wed, 15 Oct 2008 19:56:05 +0100 Wed, 15 Oct 2008 19:56:05 +0100 http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/features/columnists/petermullen/rssterms/ M6 nvincent@newsquest.co.uk webmaster@digitalmedia.newsquest.co.uk http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/resources/images/522407/?type=rsslogo http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/features/columnists/petermullen/ http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/features/columnists/petermullen/3754860.Why_I_was_wrong/ I MUCH regret making some off-colour jokes about homosexuals on my website and I have offered a full public apology. Tue, 14 Oct 2008 10:32:50 +0100 60877667987ba5304a0e5c6a1a3424e1 http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/features/columnists/petermullen/3732999.Losing_sight_of_reality/ THE awful incident in Derby when a mob encouraged 17-year-old Shaun Dykes to jump to his death from the roof of a shopping centre is one of the nastiest news stories I’ve read in my life. Tue, 07 Oct 2008 09:08:27 +0100 a1d851bff4d6bc8099f3edc63a368c1e http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/features/columnists/petermullen/3713972.Time_for_us_to_pay/ HERE’S the song we’re all singing here in the City of London... Tue, 30 Sep 2008 11:48:19 +0100 653eaa4f412596a253a50067e65c8044 http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/features/columnists/petermullen/3695458.Why_you_can___t_scrap_granny/ THE philosopher Baroness Warnock says that retirement homes are “a terrible waste of money that my family could use far better”. Tue, 23 Sep 2008 10:27:58 +0100 176a8673efa05f8104e00299c8b5ec32 http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/features/columnists/petermullen/3676527.Scientists_do_believe_in_God/ PROFESSOR Michael Reiss, educational director of the Royal Society – the most prestigious scientific institution in the world – has stirred up controversy by suggesting that creationism be taught in schools alongside natural science, including the theory of evolution. Tue, 16 Sep 2008 10:00:04 +0100 72d809c2ead583c2a7cad32437fedd98 http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/features/columnists/petermullen/3658881.An_image_not_to_be_honoured/ WOULD you like to see a Nazi sympathiser’s head on a British postage stamp? Well, whether you would or you wouldn’t, you’re going to get one. Tue, 09 Sep 2008 11:53:11 +0100 f03bbee6122503be8168e0823691287c http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/features/columnists/petermullen/3639350.More_than_just_a_newspaper/ IT was nice to hear Peter Barron, editor of The Northern Echo, discussing regional newspapers on the Today Programme on Monday morning, but the general drift of the conversation strongly suggested the outlook for these papers is not promising. Tue, 02 Sep 2008 10:15:30 +0100 f1fc84fb11807be53eca38c7b5839b9b http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/features/columnists/petermullen/3621453.Why_the_Russians_are_right/ NO ONE who regularly reads this column could think that I have any enthusiasm for the Russian dictatorship under either its earlier communist form or under the gangsterism of Putin and Medvedev. Tue, 26 Aug 2008 09:37:38 +0100 bb49431893e96057d12a503801517604 http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/features/columnists/petermullen/3604983.It___s_all_getting_out_of_control/ HERE’S a tale for our times. Someone wrote to tell me that she has been running a little community support group for senior citizens in her village for 30 years. Tue, 19 Aug 2008 10:03:59 +0100 c52d2b29d2c0c98861f2d67f0fff6ef3 http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/features/columnists/petermullen/3587876.Losing_our_grip_on_reality/ SOMETHING profoundly disturbing and even catastrophic is happening to our society and it has never happened before. Tue, 12 Aug 2008 10:22:58 +0100 2ced31a8b90d917478da3a4e8156a206