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1. 1. Paul Taylor: True happiness is seeing your glass half empty

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 21 December 2011 Nestling in the metaphorical Christmas stocking of 200 of the world’s leaders will be a tome called The World Book of Happiness.

2. 2. Paul Taylor: On the fast track, but do we really need high speed rail?

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 11 January 2012 Hang out the bunting! High-speed rail is coming to Manchester... in about 20 years.

3. 3. Comment: Rise of sneaky new crime that makes us all a bit more wary

   Manchester Evening News, Thursday 12 January 2012 There is, it seems, no end to the ingenuity of the criminal classes. Today, we report on a new form of crime dubbed ‘hugger mugging’.

4. 4. Comment: An obligation to protect our halls

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 01 June 2011 Spending cuts have left town hall bosses unable to afford the considerable cost of maintaining Heaton Hall and Wythenshawe Hall.

5. 5. Angela Epstein: When did racist abuse become an ordinary part of life for Manchester's Jewish young people?

   Manchester Evening News, Tuesday 26 July 2011 The other day my 12-year-old son was walking home from school with two of his pals, when a group of girls in their late teens started yelling anti-Semitic abuse at them. But what makes this so disheartening is that so many of Manchester’s Jewish young people accept this as an occupational hazard of living in the city.

6. 6. Comment: Rioters must be called to account

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 10 August 2011 We hoped and prayed it would not happen here, but the contagion could not be kept away from our two cities.

7. 7. MEN comment: Students’ ordeal was a disgrace

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 01 October 2010 One feels for the dozens of students who were moved out of newly-built flats in Manchester after fire brigade inspectors condemned the building.

8. 8. Comment: Empty homes are affront to fairness

   Manchester Evening News, Monday 28 February 2011 A comparison between the number of homes lying empty and the number of families needing a home always tends to offend one’s sense of fairness. We report today that 25,000 homes – both publicly and privately owned – stand empty in Greater Manchester, with over 8,000 in Manchester.

9. 9. Paul Taylor: 'TV dinner' has so much to answer for

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 09 March 2011 The phrase ‘TV dinner’, for me, conjures images of those foil trays with little indentations for each part of the meal. Looking like prison catering, these were, in the 1960s, an inexplicably glamorous import from America at a time when science and technology was sending men to the moon and finding space age ways to deliver up food which was convenient, if inedible.

10. 10. Comment: Budget helps the poor - but not the north

    Manchester Evening News, Thursday 24 March 2011 We can see George Osborne’s Budget as a "steady as you go" affair, a "fiscally neutral" set of measures which apply just a little ointment to some of the wounds wrought by the economic downturn.

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