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John Walsh

John Walsh: Tales of the City

Published: 03 April 2007

'It's one thing for a man to be an IRA sympathiser. But to say he was gay as well? Show some respect!'

John Walsh: Tales of the City

Published: 27 March 2007

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John Walsh: Tales of the City

Published: 20 March 2007

'The concept of the UnderCity won't catch on in Britain. We get scared in the basement of Harvey Nicks'

John Walsh: Tales of the City

Published: 13 March 2007

'No appearance by the Colette of Camden Town is complete without a familiar figure a-lurking'

John Walsh: Tales of the City

Published: 06 March 2007

'The simple affection of Profumo and Mosley for their miscreant dads would melt the sternest heart'

John Walsh: Tales of the City

Published: 27 February 2007

'A crime, right here, under my nose! I sprang to the telephone and called the police at once'

John Walsh: Tales of the Carnival

Published: 20 February 2007

'Rio's Sambadrome is the most flamboyantly tacky, over-the-top parade you've ever seen'

John Walsh: Tales of the City

Published: 13 February 2007

'When it comes to being revealed as a former criminal or a former prat, we'd happily choose the criminal'

John Walsh: Tales of the City

Published: 06 February 2007

'Let us see off the developers with a barrage of sourdough loaves and handmade truffles!'

John Walsh: Tales of the City

Published: 30 January 2007

'Frankly, I feel more surveyed, spied on and flash-filmed than Shilpa Shetty, and I'm sick of it'

John Walsh: Tales of the City

Published: 23 January 2007

'Eh, Ambassador, wi' these pork pies and pints of Bass, you're bloody spoiling us, y'are'

John Walsh: Tales of the City

Published: 16 January 2007

'The behavioural fascists tell us we must get organised. Nonsense. Mess is good!'

John Walsh: Tales of the City

Published: 09 January 2007

'Depending on how you're feeling that evening, Romeo and Juliet needn't die in the tomb after all'

John Walsh: Tales of the City

Published: 02 January 2007

'The day is near when random words will start appearing in my conversation, as though I'm reciting concrete poetry'

John Walsh: Tales of the City

Published: 26 December 2006

'Hollywood has become fixated on movies about authors, however unpromising the subject matter'

John Walsh: Tales of the City

Published: 19 December 2006

'I've been approached by the US film industry and asked to write for them. Hurrah! Fame, riches and women await'

John Walsh: Blog. Is there an uglier word in the entire history of our language?

Published: 17 December 2006

Comfort zones, default positions, identity theft. I ask you!

John Walsh: Tales of the City

Published: 12 December 2006

'I have an unshakeable image of the bishop in full regalia, weaving from Hyde Park to Southwark'

John Walsh: Tales of the City

Published: 05 December 2006

'The biggest threat to life in Egypt isn't bombs, pirates or bird flu - it's Cairo's drivers. Absolutely crazy'

John Walsh: Tales of the City

Published: 28 November 2006

Stick a toe into the huge, still pond of history, and you'll be amazed how fast it churns up into a tsunami.

John Walsh: Tales of the City

Published: 21 November 2006

'Now pay attention, 007. This may look like a plate of sushi, but when Stelth is involved...'

John Walsh: He may look like a sad Samurai, but we're falling for David Gest

Published: 19 November 2006

To a pair of baby alligators he said, "Weren't you at my wedding?" - Recollections of marriage to Liza were sweet or hilariously rude

John Walsh: Tales Of The City

Published: 14 November 2006

'During the encore, my plastic tooth flew out across Wembley Arena. Oh, the wages of vanity '

John Walsh: Tales of the City

Published: 07 November 2006

'Like David Attenborough clucking over a stricken yak, one wonders what will come of tragic Battersea Power Station'

John Walsh: Tales of the City

Published: 31 October 2006

'The whiff of Sixties hippiedom and Nelson Mandela saintliness are, I'm sure, unconscious'
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