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Tyndale: Tackle the criminals Mr Cameron? Not on my life!

THE Conservatives want to help us to “have a go” at criminals. Well, thanks so much. Read

Tyndale: The kiss of death for our politics

IN the middle of the worst economic crisis in our lifetimes our Prime Minister came up with an initiative that riveted the nation’s attention. Read

Tyndale: Police just sit in cars don't they?

SIR David Jason has announced that he is to end his appearances in the TV detective series “A Touch of Frost” on the grounds of age. Read

Tyndale: Bank sharks get another bite in sea of scandal

SO now we’re all agreed on the madness that caused this mess. In an economy based on debt, a mob of shysters built massive businesses by selling worthless pieces of paper to each other. Read

Tyndale: Big Bang hype sent millions of pounds down a black hole

IF there was an award for The Nation’s Favourite Flood Story (and there probably will be one day) it would go to the Baxter family of Chester Le Street, County Durham. Read

Tyndale: Pity little Leona her idiot dad

IT generated so much excitement it might just as well have been a bid to send Britney Spears and Jamie Murray on a 20-year mission to begin populating another planet. Read

Tyndale: Scandal of the mental patients let free to strike

ANOTHER week and another horrifying story resulting from a dangerous psychiatric patient being allowed onto the streets. Read

Tyndale: Why Barack Obama and John McCain

NOW that the American political process has, finally, sifted out Barack Obama and John McCain as the two candidates who will fight to become President, we are left with one simple question. Read

Tyndale: Justice is undone in an instant

IT used to be a cornerstone of our legal system that justice must not only be done, it must also be seen to be done. Read

Tyndale: Prepare for an Olympics letdown in London

MAKE the most of it. Revel in the medal bedecked homecoming, throw yourself into the excitement of the open top bus parades and savour every detail of the gong fest. Read

Tyndale: Whites feel persecuted in Britain

NEW evidence has emerged of the way the white British feel increasingly alienated from the nation they used to regard as home. Read

Tyndale: Why SODs law is a recipie for disaster

FROM next month parents in one part of the Midlands will have the right to make enquiries about whether individuals in their lives are convicted paedophiles. Read

Tyndale: A deserving candidate for the death sentence

THERE could not be a more deserving candidate for the death sentence than David Bieber. Read

Tyndale: A deserving candidate for the death sentence

THERE could not be a more deserving candidate for the death sentence than David Bieber. Read

Tyndale: PM thinks we are simple-minded

CONGRATULATIONS. You’re region has been selected by the Prime Minister to host the first cabinet meeting he has ever held outside London. Read

Tyndale: £650,000 a medal...

SO there is some sport then. After all these months of politics and architecture it was easy to forget that the Olympics are supposed to be about. Games. Read

Tyndale: Sikh ruling sets a dangerous precedent

BEING able to wear a thin metal bangle is a vital element of what it means to be a Sikh. Who says so? A 14 year-old schoolgirl from Wales. Read

Tyndale: Teachers could make their mark

Something like 400,000 teachers have just put their feet up for the rest of the summer. And meanwhile the important assessment tests taken by vast numbers of their pupils remain in chaos. Read

Tyndale: Skiver plan won't work

If you are a skiver fiddling the benefits system you are now officially under threat. Read

Tyndale: Addicted to publicity

Peaches Geldoff is addicted. I don’t know about her experience with drugs of course. Read

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