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Jim Greenhalf »
Wise moves break the zero barrier at last
Posted on 10:06am Saturday 15th September 2007
You really have to be a tree-swinging, knuckle-scraping curmudgeon not to feel even a twinge of admiration for Leeds United.
Jim Greenhalf »
Yea, though I walk through the valley...
Posted on 10:02am Friday 14th September 2007
"No matter how I struggle and strive/ I'll never get out of this world alive," sang Hank Williams, who died in the back of a limousine, New Year's Day, 1953.
Jim Greenhalf »
Movin' on up
Posted on 12:51pm Monday 23rd April 2007
On February 21 Lent began with a nice piece of news: the house I had been renting since September 2004 was being put up for sale.
Jim Greenhalf »
Islam: the urgence of engagement
Posted on 2:18pm Monday 2nd April 2007
According to a Muslim acquaintance - we are friendly but do not know each other well enough yet to claim the bond of friendship - truth and patience are two of the four Koranic conditions for success.
Jim Greenhalf »
The extreme price of the pursuit of truth
Posted on 11:45am Monday 26th March 2007
I met Ian Wooldridge only once. He turned up in the Press box at Valley Parade for Bradford City's all-important match against Ipswich Town the season the team just missed promotion to what was then Division One.
Jim Greenhalf »
A bus driver's lot...
Posted on 12:34pm Monday 12th March 2007
Unless you travel by bus in Bradford during the evening rush hour the abuse of bus lanes by other drivers won't mean much to you - unless you are a culprit.
Jim Greenhalf »
Lords a-leaping towards democracy?
Posted on 12:34pm Monday 12th March 2007
Interesting to see the division among the Metropolitan District's MPs regarding the proposal to inject the House of Lords with a lethal dose of democracy.
Jim Greenhalf »
Dig in for a better world
Posted on 1:41pm Monday 5th March 2007
Happening to catch the last few minutes of Gardeners' World on BBC2, while waiting for the Wild West docu-drama about Billy the Kid, I had a revelation.
Jim Greenhalf »
Scared of change? Have faith.
Posted on 12:01pm Thursday 1st March 2007
Some believe that either Bradford will become a Western Islamabrad, culturally divided and segregated, or an ideal kind of Bradistan, a happy amalgam of East and West based on tolerance, equality and responsibility.
Jim Greenhalf »
Is it time for City to leave Valley Parade?
Posted on 9:08am Wednesday 21st February 2007
Victorian poet Arthur Hugh Clough once asked himself a very serious question: "Would I lay down my life for the average British female?"
Jim Greenhalf »
Karaoke democracy
Posted on 10:51am Monday 19th February 2007
Cigarette-box democracy refers to the post-war era when people worked in a place for 30 or 40 years and signed off aged 60 or 65 with an inappropriate corporate gift.
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