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John Walsh

John Walsh: Tales of the City Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 10 October 2006

'Spring-Heeled Jack Straw is at it again, leaping up in demonic fashion to terrorise decent voters'

John Walsh: Tales of the City Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 03 October 2006

'The girls were in raptures when the bride-to-be went on stage, lay on a bed and was swiftly decapitated'

John Walsh: Tales of the City Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 26 September 2006

'In future, male journalists must display a minimum BMI of 29.9 and a lung/smoke factor of 49 per cent'

John Walsh: Tales of the City Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 19 September 2006

'Historically, cannibalism is far more a Western phenomenon than an abomination of jungle savages'

John Walsh: Tales of the City Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 12 September 2006

'Despite his girth, the king enjoyed exercising on a custom-built bike on the tarmac at Tonga airport'

John Walsh: Tales of the City Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 05 September 2006

'What a miracle: we survived the Attack of the Party Teens. But my wheelie-bin didn't...'

John Walsh: Tales of the City Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 29 August 2006

'You need your very own personal bailiff; tough, no nonsense, short on social chitchat. That'll sort it'

John Walsh: Tales Of The City Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 22 August 2006

'How are parents who were fobbed off with lies to explain what was done in the name of the German people?'

John Walsh: Tales of the City Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 15 August 2006

'Like a Frankenstein's monster made up of different rock-star affectations, Russell Brand is utterly fake'

John Walsh: Tales of the City Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 08 August 2006

'In less than half an hour, I found that I had collected enough parking fines to paper the downstairs lavabo'

A Guide to (Modern) Etiquette....according to Mr JHM Walsh Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 07 August 2006

What's the best way to avoid getting mugged? When should you not leave a tip, or send a dish back? How do you compliment your friend on their plastic surgery? How do you exit, gracefully, after a one-night stand? modern life can be confusing, but John Walsh has the answers to these thorny questions - and many more

John Walsh: Tales Of The City Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 01 August 2006

'There's a limit to the number of days you can lunch al fresco on melon with slightly-too-stiff ham'

John Walsh: Tales of the City Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 11 July 2006

'Unlike the cast of Friends, we do not need five or six confidantes. We're not like that. We're British'

Memories are not made of this: the secret history of the Sixties Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 08 July 2006

As the saying goes - if you can remember it, you weren't really there. Now a survey has proved it to be true. Those who grew up in the decade of flower power have shamelessly embellished their recollections, according to the UKTV History channel study. And as John Walsh exclusively reveals, it wasn't all rock'n'roll, rebellion and recreational drugs - even for the icons of the age

John Walsh: Tales of the City Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 04 July 2006

'Gracelands Palace is no more. Not the Memphis shrine, but the Chinese restaurant on the Old Kent Road'

John Walsh: Tales of the City Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 27 June 2006

'Go and make some coffee, John. And tell me, which of those manuscripts do you think is in Wordsworth's writing?'

John Walsh: At last, a film that brings the truth to British eyes Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 23 June 2006

The first European terror group to be sanctioned by a government was sent from England

John Walsh: Tales of the City Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 22 June 2006

'Wedding dresses are getting more outrageous. Is there a shop out there called Pimp My Bride?'

John Walsh: Of The City Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 13 June 2006

Why you should read this column at 9.23am precisely (and definitely not at 2.16pm)

John Walsh: Tales of the City Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 06 June 2006

'The team's demands for Yazoo and Benecol call to mind a six-year-old's requirements at school breaktime'

John Walsh: Tales from Mauritius Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 30 May 2006

'We gaze fondly at the Mancunian rock star. Despite wearing his beanie hat at breakfast, he's a model of domesticity'

John Walsh: Tales Of The City Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 23 May 2006

'It's bleak and vicious, full of random shootings, ambushes, reprisals and beatings'

John Walsh: Tales of the City

Published: 16 May 2006

Groucho in the Pentagon: the least successful guest appearance of all time?

John Walsh: Tales from Jamaica Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 09 May 2006

I might 'smoke one for Bob', just as Catholics might light a votive candle for St Anthony

John Walsh: Tales of the city Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 02 May 2006

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