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1. 1. Opinion: Paul Taylor

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 04 November 2009 FOR years, I made a conversational sport of defending Bernard Manning. I was in good, though sparse, company; Manning was defended by such unlikely figures as Stephen Fry and eminent historian AJP Taylor.

2. 2. Opinion: Paul Taylor

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 26 August 2009 TWENTY five years ago, Muhammad Ali was - even counting kings and queens, presidents and rock stars - the most famous man on the planet.

3. 3. Opinion: Paul Taylor

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 24 June 2009 I wouldn't pretend to be familiar with Rochdale massage parlours, but I'm willing to bet they are not good places to go in search of a wife.

4. 4. Opinion: Paul Taylor

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 16 September 2009 UNFORTUNATELY, the letter of the law is incidental when it comes to the public hysteria which perceives a child abuser on every street corner. And the government is not helping us to get this matter in proportion.

5. 5. Opinion: Paul Taylor

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 07 October 2009 YOU may be a little absorbed with the news that David Cameron will - even quicker than Gordon Brown intended to - delay your retirement to the age of 66. You may be wondering how the nation is going to drag itself back from its record £175bn debt.

6. 6. Comment: Paul Taylor

   Manchester Evening News, Tuesday 17 March 2009 I am one of those milksops who never quite "got" football. But I am now willing to believe that there are lessons to be drawn from the beautiful game.

7. 7. Opinion: Paul Taylor

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 14 October 2009 When Garry Newlove was kicked to death outside his Warrington home after remonstrating with youths over vandalism to his wife's car, it provoked just the latest in a long line of impassioned debates about law and order.

8. 8. Opinion: Paul Taylor

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 02 September 2009 IS it art or is it vandalism? That's the question so often asked about graffiti. Bristol city council - reputed home of graffiti master Banksy - now plans to put that hoary old question to the vote.

9. 9. Opinion: Paul Taylor

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 13 May 2009 THE nation manages to stifle a 'phwoarr' as the Rylstone Women's Institute shed their cardies in a tenth anniversary reprise of the stunt which spawned Calendar Girls.

10. 10. Opinion: Paul Taylor

    Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 28 October 2009 I ONLY hope Madonna keeps up the lettuce-munching and abdominal crunches and lives to a ripe old age. The idea of her going before her time and having the muddled messages of her self-serving, vain and posturing pop turned into some kind of gospel for life just doesn't bear thinking about.

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