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Julie Kirkbride needs to buy a hairbrush

1In the meltdown of Julie Kirkbride’s career, a key point has been missed.Read

Sunday used to be sacred - and so boring

WORKING for a big city newspaper wasn’t my first career – I used to have a more respectable trade.Read

Reasons why football's the new religion

AS I say, it’s not only those final few worshippers who are crouching down in prayer. The entire Christian faith in this country is on its knees.Read

Quinn's got more chance on Broad Street than Broadway

wMOON-faced man-child Ray Quinn claims that because he won Dancing On Ice, he will soon have a Stateside career.Read

No anarchy in the UK

INDUSTRIALIST Henry Ford, said: “Failure is just the opportunity to begin again. This time more intelligently.”Read

Joke to call David 'Del Boy' Jason a racist

DAVID Jason is guilty – guilty as sin.Read

Alternatives to Mother's Day

AND so, it’s Mother’s Day... again.Read

The Jackson 5

WHAT is happening with Kerry Katona and her on-off boyfriend, Mark Croft?Read

Why Julie Myerson is wrong to reveal her son's drug habit

TODAY’S little essay is about art and exploitation. Sophisticated stuff, I’m sure you’ll agree.Read

Manchester United star's ham-fisted handbag antics

WHAT is wrong with our current crop of professional footballers?Read

How the American version of Coronation Street could look

WITH British movie Slumdog Millionaire cleaning up at the Oscars, hopes are riding high that a UK invasion of Hollywood is imminent.Read

My Dictionary For Tomorrow

RESEARCH at the university of Reading has identified a handful of modern words that have changed so little in tens of thousands of years that ancient hunter-gatherers would probably have used them, just like us.Read

Bankers and politicians to blame for the Credit Crunch

THE embarrassing truth was that even though I was in my mid-twenties, I remained a virgin.Read

Jackson: Day my lone voice of Israel faced the mob

SOME people like to hit the sun, sand and sea when they take a break.Read

A Christmas ghost story

‘‘OKAAAAAY! It’s one minute to midnight, and all you nightbirds out there on the highways and byways are tuned into Hot-Flame FM. Demonic drones dirting-up your radio dial.Read

Jackson 5

1. Changeling, the latest film directed by Clint Eastwood, is described on posters as ‘a thriller of scale and substance’.Read

Jackson 5

1 I’VE just paid my TV licence over the internet, where the website informed me that I could get a discount if I was blind.Read

The real evil is that we sit back and do nothing

IT’S only four letters long, but it’s a big word – one of the biggest.Read

Jackson: Alternative F-words!

APPARENTLY a BBC bigwig OK’d the Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand radio harassment of Andrew Sachs because they used the f-word, and the f-word is funny.Read

Jackson: Sex and The City Star's strip is hardly shocking

wSEX And The City siren, Kim Cattrall, is campaigning to stop a classic work by Titian being sold abroad.Read

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