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Nothing but a pointless piece of cloth

Heckler Why do we even need a flag in the first place. Honestly, what use is the bloody thing?

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Slow slide to insensible senescence

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Heckler WHEN I was a teenager, a common refrain among my friends was that it would be our worst nightmare to become like our parents.

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Retail of woe: maybe it serves you right

Heckler READ the business pages. Watch the news. Listen to the radio. It's all about whiney, moaning retailers.

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Shampoo? I can bottle up my ire no more

Heckler IT'S THE morning on a week day. It could have been any other time, but that's when it hit me.

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ABC caught out in Test

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Heckler THE ABC is driving me barmy with its cricket broadcasts.

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Give me a non- automatic brake

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Heckler MY CAR'S headlights turn on by themselves and stay on when I stop and get out. I did not ask them to do that. When I drive off, all the doors lock. I did not ask them to do that, either.

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Just answer the question

Heckler TWO words, two tiny, loaded English words, are rapidly becoming obsolete. Two important words treading the path of extinction are on my barometer for declining standards in civilisation.

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Please don't talk around the subject

Heckler CALL out the word police. Our language is under attack, again. This latest spree of linguistic violence is by the people that want to talk to us ''around'' things.

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Sex, I'm sick of it

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Heckler Have you ever seen one of those couples in a park on a Sunday afternoon rolling around on top of each other like it's no one's business? Except it is everyone's business because all the small...

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Spare me from charity

Heckler I was at home the other day when my phone rang. It was a charitable organisation to which, until recently, I had donated for several years. Now they wanted me back.

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It's always jam today

Heckler IN THE 1993 comedy Groundhog Day, Bill Murray wakes every morning to find his radio playing the same old tune. I know how he feels.

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Closer look at the data

Heckler AM I missing something? Has someone declared that the word ''data'' is a collective noun rather than the plural form of datum?

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U15s cricket will hardly get runs up

Heckler A FEW words of advice for those seeking employment regarding the much-vaunted topic of what will make your résumé stand out.

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Oh dear, you want a book

Heckler I love books. I love picking them up, carrying them around. As well as reading them, I love owning them. There are not many places I'll part with my money as readily and happily as in a bookshop.

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Lifts push all my buttons

Heckler Of all the modern day inventions, lifts are remarkably convenient when they do work, and sheer terror when they don't.

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Why not say it as it is?

Heckler Do you ever wonder who's in charge of house style at radio and railway stations?

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Committed to memory

Heckler As a woman of a certain age I am more than entitled to critically reflect on the chronic scourge of Expectations to Live the Life Well-Lived that women are subject to throughout their lives at each...

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