Right Round the Houses (No 29)

WELCOME back to Right Round the Houses, the weekly feature where the nation’s columnists have their say – while we wonder just why it is we put up with them . . .

Right Round the Houses (No 28)

IT’S money for old rope – but somebody has to put their thoughts into print and get paid very handsomely into the bargain. So what have our newspaper columnists being saying this week . . . ?

Right Round the Houses (No 27)

IT’S that time of week when we turn the pages of the nation’s newspapers to see what snippets of wisdom those overpaid and over-opinionated columnists have been saying . . .

Comfy chair boldly goes

IT’S disconcerting to pick up the News of the World early on a wet Sunday morning and learn that an asteroid nearly collided with the Earth while you were sleeping. A lump of space rock, named 2011 CQ1, was spotted only an hour before it whizzed above the Earth’s atmosphere over South America then shot off into the depths of space. After all, it was an asteroid collision that wiped out the dinosaurs and gouged the Gulf of Mexico. Thankfully, this one passed by within a few thousand miles of the planet. So how big was it? Does the News of the World have any dimensions for this deadly rock?

Right Round the Houses (No 25)

ROLL up, roll up, see the House of Mysteries, the freaks and the clowns, and the famous Tattooed Lady. Oh, and a pile of newspaper columnists with trick bouquets and their bow ties spinning . . .

Right Round the Houses (No 21)

WELCOME back to Right Round the Houses, the weekly feature where the nation’s columnists sit in the back of a posh car outside the London Palladium and wonder what all the fuss is about . . .

Right Round the Houses (No 17)

WELCOME once again to Right Round the Houses, our weekly spot where the nation’s columnists get a brief chance to make an argument as transparent and as flimsy as a pane of glass in Millbank Tower . . .

Right round the houses (No 11)

ED MILIBAND is the main topic of conversation this week as our columnists flock together like a bunch of plump Herdwick gimmers to bleat with one voice. There are exceptions. Julia Hartley-Brewer, for instance, brings us news of a phenomenon called global warming, which surely proves once and for all that the Sunday Express leads the world with its breathtakingly astute news-gathering capabilities . . .

Right round the houses (No 8)

IT’S come round again – our weekly glance into the slightly disjointed world of the British newspaper columnist. This week’s theme could be: “Imagination – do we need it? No.” . . .  

Right round the houses (No7)

IF it was possible to take an A-level in the art of putting one’s foot in one’s mouth, several of the nation’s columnists would be jumping for joy this week as they opened their results envelopes. The practice of mouthing off without first checking the facts – or lack of them – is alive and well. Let’s open the classroom door and see what’s been going on over the past seven days . . .