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Lindy McDowell

Good taste: WI calendar girls are carefully posed

Daft EU jar rule creates a real pickle

Bad news for the Women's Institute, famous for its jam and Jerusalem and much-copied Calendar Girls calendar featuring naked members shielding their bits with strategically placed cupcakes and pickled preserves.

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Inside Lindy McDowell

Traffic plan to get us moving is just driving everyone mad

Thursday, 11 October 2012

Progress Belfast-style? The bus lanes have replaced the bombers in effectively bringing the city to a standstill. So what can we expect as a next move from the farcically-entitled Belfast On The Move?
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Could Lewis' witch produce a magic theme park?

Thursday, 11 October 2012

It's reported Paramount Pictures is planning to build a £2bn theme park in Kent which will provide around 27,000 jobs.
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Why I've just been invited to dinner by Barack Obama

Thursday, 4 October 2012

Barack Obama won't stop emailing me. Since the beginning of September I've had five emails from the great man himself, two from Marlon Marshall, who is Deputy National Field Director of the Obama for America campaign and another one (my favourite) from Bill Clinton.
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Please screen more local history

Thursday, 4 October 2012

Shouldn't we have more local history on local television?
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Just ask Van price of fame

Thursday, 4 October 2012

I was lucky enough to catch the bit on Sunday night's X Factor were Rylan Clark was informed by Nicole Scherzinger that he was through to the finals of this year's series of this well-worn format.
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When family pride is winner

Thursday, 27 September 2012

Maybe it's because local sport has, in the last while, been overshadowed by stories of such awful tragedy - the deaths of the Spence family members, of Brian Og Maguire and last year the terrible murder of Michaela McAreavey that I found a small scene of celebration after the Donegal All-Ireland win so very moving.
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Maternity leave creates mother of all problems

Thursday, 27 September 2012

It had to happen eventually I suppose. A woman who has not actually given birth is suing the government for the right to maternity pay. The lady in question had a child - a little boy - after she'd used a surrogate. But it's the surrogate who is, under law, entitled to the leave.
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Peter and Martin should urge respect for all centenaries

Thursday, 27 September 2012

A couple of years back when we were coming up to what was being described as a decade of momentous centenaries in Northern Ireland, someone made the point that this could be such a positive thing for this place.
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Don't keep up with Kourtney if you value privacy

Thursday, 20 September 2012

Among all those mythical things we sometimes fondly imagine might be out there somewhere but know in our hearts of hearts don't actually exist - unicorns, the Loch Ness monster, Utopia, comfortable high-heels - is a new one we should add to the list.
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Education reform will be a real test for our politicians

Thursday, 20 September 2012

After years of debate about the dumbing down of exams, the much criticised GCSE is now being phased out in England to be replaced by a new tougher test proposed by Education Minister, Michael Gove. (His name rhymes with stove.)
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Isn't it time for Bob to stop having bad hair days?

Thursday, 20 September 2012

At what age should a man get his hair cut? Bob Geldof is 60. Time for a trim?
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The new gold standard for girls

Wednesday, 12 September 2012

A few months back we were complaining of being Titanic-ed out. Now we’re Olympic-ed out. Or are we?
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Atheists haven’t a prayer when it comes to spot on Radio 4’s God slot

Wednesday, 12 September 2012

Should atheists get a God slot? Not according to the BBC’s head of religion who has been considering calls from the National Secular Society to be allowed to take part in Thought for the Day (affectionately known as the God Slot) during Radio 4’s Today programme.
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