Shuiab Khan's weekly column from the Lancashire Telegraph

Blog: I was a poor speller - and had big issues with comas!

1:00pm Friday 17th May 2013

THIS week my nine-year-old had a spelling test.

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COMMENT: We'll never see another Alex Ferguson

3:15pm Friday 10th May 2013

With the retirement of Alex Ferguson we are reminded that all good things must come to an end.

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Blog: My warm weather plumage

1:39pm Friday 3rd May 2013

Warm sunshine means one of two things. Either people start walking around in shorts and T-shirts or it is time to get out the air conditioned shalwar kameez.

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Blog: I'm nearly 40 - will you shut up please!

1:46pm Friday 26th April 2013

And so it happened – before you knew it you had reached forty.

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Blog: Surely we're all on Candid Camera!

12:39pm Friday 19th April 2013

It is a well-known fact that ‘Money For Nothing’, by Dire Straits has the best first 30 seconds of any song ever made.

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Blog: It's time to let it be over Mrs Thatcher

12:55pm Friday 12th April 2013

There was always going to be disunity after the death of one of the 20th century’s most defining figures.

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Blog: 16 minutes in, the budget went to pot

12:01pm Friday 5th April 2013

LIKE many parents I headed off to the fun fair with the kids this week.

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COMMENT: Proving that you are who you are

11:19am Friday 22nd March 2013

APPLYING for a new photo-card licence, or passport, is one of the most mind-numbingly pointless exercises ever invented.

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Blog: Learning the art of not listening

11:15am Friday 15th March 2013

THERE comes a point when one stops listening to people.

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Blog: Could women handle a man's month?

4:50pm Friday 8th March 2013

‘If you men had to go through what we women do once a month you wouldn’t know how to handle it’ is the cry us men here all to often.

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Blog: Charged 30p for spending a penny!

1:19pm Friday 1st March 2013

We love it when things are free, and I’m not talking about the ‘best things in life' – like the simple pleasures of a happy, healthy family and the like.

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Blog: Avoiding folk is much easier nowadays

11:36am Friday 22nd February 2013

WE have this pressing need to be connected to people, either through your phone, your laptop, or your TV.

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Blog: Time to cool obsession with meat

3:11pm Friday 15th February 2013

You know when things are getting serious – they make a logo for the news item.

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Blog: Pakistan has proper potholes

12:54pm Friday 8th February 2013

WHEN you can’t be bothered to finish a sentence then it’s time to switch the lights off and call it a day.

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Blog: Language barrier is still an obstacle

1:47pm Friday 1st February 2013

So, the census revealed that the number of people living in England and Wales who could not speak any English was 138,000.

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Blog: Only the Chelsea player livened up a boring week

1:46pm Friday 25th January 2013

WOULD staying in, or going out of, Europe really make a difference?

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Blog: People are a lot friendlier in the snow

4:29pm Friday 18th January 2013

IF my calculations are correct by the time you read this there will indeed be that thing snow on the ground.

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Column: Forgetful pal a member of stingy crew

4:00pm Friday 11th January 2013

There is nothing more problematic than having friends who do not like to spend their own money.

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Column: ‘Man flu’ is a female obsession

1:39pm Friday 4th January 2013

SO-CALLED ‘man flu’ is a thing made up by women to make them feel better about themselves.

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Even a bloke can stuff a chicken

10:40am Friday 21st December 2012

There comes a time in everyone’s life when one must attempt to cook a pot roast.

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