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1. 11. 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.

2. 12. 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.

3. 13. Paul Taylor: I'm a cyclist - why do drivers have a problem with us?

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 08 February 2012 I must take issue with my colleague Andrew Grimes who, somewhat mischievously, last week suggested that cyclists should be banned from major arterial roads, especially at peak periods, on the basis that the attrition rate among road users on two wheels is worse than that among soldiers at war in Afghanistan.

4. 14. 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.

5. 15. 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.

6. 16. Paul Taylor: How long battle to stand up for principle had its reward

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 18 January 2012 Someone quite extraordinary turned up on the BBC Breakfast sofa yesterday. Shirley Woodman, a well-preserved 82-year-old former headteacher from Leeds, had for many years been better known as Mrs A, the anonymous sexual assault victim who successfully went to the House of Lords to win the right to sue her attacker.

7. 17. Paul Taylor: There's nothing petty about abuse and threats

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 23 March 2011 I am no great fan of beauty contests. It seems a strange thing to elect any kind of ‘ambassador’ based chiefly upon how well the candidate fills a swimsuit.

8. 18. 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.

9. 19. 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.

10. 20. 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.

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