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Barry: Reduced to tears by super Mario Oct 20 2010

LIKE all Ulstermen, my tear-ducts were sealed up when I was a small child, meaning I am unable to cry.Read

Barry: Manx tale of Mr Baggs of ambition Oct 13 2010

IN other televisual news, Britain’s finest programme - The Apprentice - has returned to our screens.Read

Barry: Glimpse back through smoke haze of history Oct 13 2010

WHAT better way to spend a weekend than by watching an election broadcast from four decades ago?Read

Barry: Tory glasses raised away from prying eyes Oct 06 2010

THERE’S an unfortunate picture of David Cameron on page 8 of Monday’s Examiner.Read

Barry: My not so strong grasp of language Oct 06 2010

I SUPPOSE it was inevitable.Read

Barry: Missing words can be so dangerous Sep 29 2010

ONE of the pains – and occasional joys – of life in journalism is being bombarded with press releases from every PR under the sun.Read

Barry: Backing Miliband Minor Sep 29 2010

FIRST of all I’d like to say a big thank you to Ed Miliband for making me £10 richer.Read

Barry: Word of advice to Nick Clegg – with power comes unpopularity Sep 22 2010

UP and down the microphone went half a dozen times.Read

Barry: Are you sherious? He’s an Irish politician Sep 22 2010

INTRIGUING news from Ireland this week where Prime Minister Brian Cowen faces calls to resign after allegations he was drunk during a radio interview.Read

Barry: A convenient excuse to show this convenience sign Sep 01 2010

IF Denis Kilcommons can do the odd column about politics, there’s no reason I can’t write the occasional joke piece.Read

Barry: My month without alcohol Sep 01 2010

I’VE had today circled in my mental calendar for the last month.Read

Barry: Check-out these new statistics Aug 25 2010

I WROTE a column last year about my dislike for self-service check-outs, the automated autocrats colonising supermarkets across the land.Read

Barry: Scrapping the Audit Commission was the wrong answer Aug 25 2010

I HAD a quick look round the Examiner newsroom before beginning this column and I couldn’t find a pot plant anywhere.Read

Barry: Blair’s gift is unlikely to change views Aug 18 2010

I’VE had the pleasure of meeting and interviewing Peter Brierley, the Batley man whose soldier son Shaun died in Kuwait on the eve of the invasion of Iraq in 2003.Read

Barry: The deceptive art of making assumptions Aug 18 2010

WHEN you present your opinions to thousands of readers every week, you’ve got to expect a reaction.Read

Barry: Crouchy stoops low Aug 11 2010

TONIGHT is likely to be a difficult evening for the millionaires who make up the English football team.Read

Barry: Speeding to a conclusion Aug 11 2010

I’M a little surprised that last week’s column praising speed cameras generated so little reaction.Read

Barry: There’s no need to brag about Yorkshire’s natural greatness Aug 04 2010

JENNY and I headed up – at a responsible speed – to Oakwell Hall on Sunday for Yorkshire Day celebrations.Read

Barry: Fed up of speed camera moaners Aug 04 2010

AS goes Oxfordshire, so goes the nation when the southern county became the first in the country to turn off all its speed cameras in a bid to save £600,000 a year in running costs.Read

Barry: Sound advice in council jargon Jul 28 2010

YOU may recall that last week I mocked Kirklees Council for an official document containing the horrible phrase “robustly estimated”.Read

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