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Julian Cole is a journalist and family man who writes a pithy, distinctive and compulsive column for Thursday, touching on politics, life and all the rest.

Julian Cole

Hysterics over house prices
9:44am Thursday 15th May 2008
THERE was an enjoyable bit of silliness in some of the national newspapers yesterday about house prices.
Reader comments (5)

Let this thing buzz off now
10:19am Thursday 8th May 2008
THE Mosquito is an electronic anti-teenager device. It emits ultra-sonic sounds, which can be heard by young people, but not their elders and supposed betters.

How Humph lit up my life
10:26am Thursday 1st May 2008
IN COMMON with many, I haven't a clue what I'll do without Humph.
Reader comments (2)

Depends how you look at it
11:38am Thursday 24th April 2008
HOW different a story can appear from one newspaper to the next. The headline in the liberal-minded Guardian read: "Migrant crime wave a myth - police study." The following morning, the proudly illiberal Daily Express used the same source material to declaim: "Immigrants bring more crime."

Is the BBC one big plot?
9:48am Thursday 17th April 2008
WELL, you have to laugh. According to the leader column in a national newspaper, and I won't name it, other than to say that there is a "Daily" and a "Mail" in there somewhere, we are suffering from a "Leftish-leaning monoculture in Britain".
Reader comments (5)

All you need is more cash
10:47am Thursday 10th April 2008
I DON'T really understand money. It's in my pocket, then it's not, having slipped into some third dimension behind the sofa.

Don’t quote me on that, please
9:38am Thursday 3rd April 2008
THE things people say, an occasional series.

Worrying about all this worrying
9:47am Thursday 27th March 2008
SOME people would have it that modern life is rubbish, but this doesn't seem right to me. What we can agree on is that modern life is confusing.

It’s a family affair for Tories
12:02pm Thursday 20th March 2008
DAVID Cameron last week allowed fly-on-the-cereal-packet cameras from ITN to record his family at breakfast.

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