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1. 11. Paul Taylor: Is Manchester the capital for UK's comic criminals?

   Manchester Evening News, Monday 16 January 2012 When programme-makers set out to find Britain's most bizarre crimes, they found rich pickings right here in Greater Manchester.

2. 12. Paul Taylor: How church leaders failed us in bid to beat worklessness

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 25 January 2012 Not for the first time, our church leaders have failed to grasp the national mood. In voting down a key government welfare reform in the House of Lords, the bishops have fudged a moral issue just as surely as they did when the Occupy protestors pitched their tents outside St Paul’s Cathedral.

3. 13. James Taylor is loving his sweet life

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 10 June 2011 Paul Taylor chats to singer-songwriter James Taylor as he heads to Manchester.

4. 14. Paul Taylor: Was Live Aid the moment the rot set in for music?

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 14 September 2011 History may remember Live Aid as the day rock showed its conscience and did a good thing. But promoter Harvey Goldsmith, one of the masterminds of that 1985 famine-alleviating mega-gig, says this week that Live Aid was also the moment the rot set in for music.

5. 15. Paul Taylor: Hospital patients deserve to be shown a bit of dignity

   Manchester Evening News, Thursday 29 September 2011 A man in his 70s is lying in a hospital bed recovering from a serious spinal injury. Though he must remain flat on his back, he can hold up a newspaper well enough to do the crossword.

6. 16. Paul Taylor: Rioters need a good therapeutic talking to

   Manchester Evening News, Thursday 08 September 2011 Were you one of the August rioters? If so, the Guardian has a few polite questions to ask you. Yes, in the absence of a public inquiry into last month's riots in London, Manchester and elsewhere, the Guardian and the London School of Economics have launched a study titled Reading The Riots.

7. 17. Paul Taylor: Do riots mark the death of liberalism?

   Manchester Evening News, Monday 15 August 2011 What is the definition of a neo-conservative? A liberal who has just been mugged. It's an old joke, but with a kernel of truth. One may pay lip service to liberal sentiments about crime and punishment, but the burglar who breaks into MY house..I want HIM locked up for a very long time.

8. 18. Paul Taylor: I reckon that we can still win the Olympic medal for fair play

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 09 May 2012 Before a shot has been putted or a race run, organisers of the London Olympics stand accused of being too keen on the British concept of fair play.

9. 19. Paul Taylor: Time for the clergy to stop hand-wringing

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 02 November 2011 The fiasco over the protest camp outside St Paul’s Cathedral has been a PR job for the Church of England roughly on a par with that of Rowan Atkinson’s befuddled vicar in Four Weddings and a Funeral.

10. 20. Opinion: Paul Taylor

    Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 29 September 2010 Urban life is good for you. So says a team from the University of London, which concludes that people living in densely-populated areas are genetically better equipped for fighting infection.

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