Rachel Moore

Stupidity puts lives of rescuers at risk

SEA air seems to addle the brain of some numpties who arrive at the beach on a hot day and take total leave of their senses. Their brains are left at home with their coats.

Better off sitting at home doing nothing

27 June 2008 12:33

A FRIEND of mine works night shifts in a supermarket to keep her family's head above water. A single mother, she has limited maintenance for her two sons from her ex-husband and struggles to make ends meet in the home she part owns with a housing association..

Toast the new king and queen of excess

13 June 2008 09:48

PLEASE raise your glasses (pink champagne, no doubt) and toast our new King and Queen of Excess, King Wayne and Queen Coleen. The newly-weds opened their eyes this morning on the first day of married life to the marble and gold honeymoon suite of the three-storey £40m yacht Alysia..

Tough parenting makes children better

06 June 2008 10:05

HOW far would you go for your child? Lie for them? Break the law? Turn a blind eye to their crime? Protect them from punishment? Is protecting your child come what may true parenting? Or is it blind stupidity and abdicating parental responsibility? A tough call of conscience this one but at the heart of the problems in Britain today..

Did Mary Whitehouse have a valid point?

30 May 2008 09:48

THE F-word is peppered through TV today far more liberally than the G-word - God ever was. Thanks to Gordon Ramsey, The Apprentice and every “progressive” filmmaker since the 70s, the word that still makes me cringe to hear, has become common parlance..