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1. 21. Opinion: Paul Taylor

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 03 February 2010 AS a 12-year old, I would often go around with a large sheath knife fixed to my belt. It was to help me do the things 12-year-olds did back then, like whittling home-made spears, or perfecting the art of dagger-throwing.

2. 22. Opinion: Paul Taylor

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 06 May 2009 Formula One boss Max Mosley had, the courts deemed, a 'reasonable expectation of privacy' when he indulged in a session of sado-masochism which was not, as the News of the World wrongly alleged `a sick Nazy orgy'.

3. 23. Opinion: Paul Taylor

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 23 December 2009 THREE short weeks ago, this column was bleakly contemplating the certainty of a fifth X Factor winner in succession skipping uncontested to the top of the Christmas singles chart. The fact that Rage Against The Machine’s Killing In The Name is our f-f-f-festive chart-topper may be seen by some as a well choreographed teen strop – half a million spotty downloaders sticking two fingers up at Simon Cowell.

4. 24. Opinion: Paul Taylor

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 18 November 2009 LAST week we discovered that the recession-hit middle classes are turning to crime to maintain their lifestyle.

5. 25. Opinion: Paul Taylor

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 22 July 2009 IT'S not what you know, it's who you know. This, crudely, may be the lesson to draw from former minister Alan Milburn's report this week on social mobility - something of which Britain hasn't got a lot.

6. 26. Opinion: Paul Taylor

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 10 June 2009 FASCISM in the British political landscape is like herpes - it's always there but it only flares up from time to time and never proves fatal.

7. 27. The magic number: Paul Hardcastle on United fans' efforts to get '19' back to number one

   Manchester Evening News, Tuesday 17 May 2011 Manchester United fans celebrating their 19th league championship are trying to send Paul Hardcastle’s 1985 hit 19 back to the top of the charts. What does Chelsea-supporting Hardcastle make of the campaign? Paul Taylor spoke to him to find out ...

8. 28. Opinion: Paul Taylor

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 17 June 2009 YOU wonder whether, in a week we have seen children starving in Somalia, we should be equating our desire to watch SuBo on YouTube with essentials for life such as water.

9. 29. Opinion: Paul Taylor

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 11 November 2009 THERE are only a few professions where you risk being hit on the head by a flying bottle…football referee, machine-minder in a brewery, traffic warden.

10. 30. Opinion: Paul Taylor

    Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 14 April 2010 A 13-year-old is hoping to become the youngest person to climb Everest. When I was 13 I had climbed no mountains. I had not yet even made an attempt on the north face of Janet Pringle.

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