MP Diana Johnson Uninspired by Hull By David Sloan

Hull MP Diana Johnson thinks prisoners should be allowed to vote. If she went on the streets of Hull and asked the people what they thought I'm sure she would get a very different answer. She was inspired, she says by a former inmate John Hirst, who served a life sentence for manslaughter. He mounted a legal challenge saying depriving him of his vote was against his human rights. He is now free, because as we all know, life no longer means life. Unfortunately the man or woman he killed will never get their chance to vote again.

Ms Johnson should concentrate on Hull's problems if she wants to do some real good for society. I'll lists just a few to get her focused: high unemployment, poor wages, poor education, high crime, drugs and the worst police force in Britain. There should be enough there to keep her occupied for the next 4 years.

Opinions - Christmas Shopping Opportunity By Mr. A.N. Gry
	Well Christmas will soon be upon us and everyone is busy getting their Christmas shopping lists ready of what to get their kids or even themselves, but unfortunately at some other poor bugger's expense! Yes, the Christmas bookings for stereos and PCs and play stations etc., etc, etc. are being taken and the opportunists are a knocking at our backdoors and windows (good job we have 3 monsters Read more...

Opinions - Amused or not, a muse on Yo-Yo By Michelle Dee
	Whilst all you scenesters were at Leeds watching the likes of The Killers, The Pixies and The Paddingtons... life continued back home. Welly on Saturday was a little emptier than previous weeks, but that just meant there was more room to move and it wasn't quite so hot. DJ Priya had a difficult job tonight due to the lack of so many regulars Read more...

Opinions - Did Hitler See the Good in Hull ? by David Sloan

	Hull has been voted Worst City in the UK to live, on a recent Channel 4 TV programme. This of course was not always the case. Before the war Hull was a prosperous important sea port. Unfortunately the last politician to recognise this was Adolf Hitler. The Germans saw Hull as a major port and manufacturing centre. That's why Hull was the second Read more...

Opinions - Bringing Me Down By Steve Stewart
	Why do others bring people down all the time? Can people not leave other people alone, or is it because some of us want to get on with our lives but others won't let us? I wrote this and would like to share it with you who read it. At the moment I am feeling that it's never going to end. Maybe, hopefully this may help some of Read more...

Opinions - Reply to Tom Hawcroft By Lee Cassanell

	Well, you rattle a cage and you get a response. Thank you from the bottom of my heart Mr Hawcroft for taking the time and effort to respond. War is indeed Hell (Yes I've seen Platoon) but when someone throws a grenade into your Garden Party I think it's only fair to throw it back so I will indeed respond to your response in the vain hope that you tear yourself away from your moral Read more...

Opinions - Letter to Tom Hawcroft From Maurice Fairfield

Dear Tom Hawcroft, I only know Lee Cassanell as an able though inferior versifier publishing in these pages (although he did call me a genius recently). Reading his vitriolic piece on the old place, I was a bit surprised by the entertaining venom until I got myself back in the Hull mindset which I remember well as generally being expressed in the form of open derision for most things and Read more...

Opinions - Regarding Tom Hawcroft's Retort to Lee Cassanell's Hull By Mark Pollard

	I'm not absolutely certain about this, but I think Tom might have been hoodwinked by a piece of ever-so-clever, post-industrial, post-modern, post-comedy, post-post-whatever, irony schmirony by Master Cassanell. Sorry - I'm being ironic myself now. Or am I? Lee - I think you need to come clean about your motivations here; something that may require a Read more...

Opinions - Retort to Lee Cassanell's Hull By Tom Hawcroft

	Lee Cassanell, when you were drafting out your masterpiece entitled simply; Hull (brilliant, just brilliant), what were you hoping to achieve? If it was to undermine and belittle the hardworking and conscientious people in this city (of which there are many), via the use of a series of independent non-factual rants then you may have succeeded. I understand this is the opinions Read more...

Opinions - Hull By Susan North

	Guess these guys never lived here in Hull and are talking through their arses. Hull is a city full of history and warm hearted people who will open their doors to anyone genuinely needing help. Always has been for centuries. OK, most cities have some bad points but that goes with the generations of the day as they Read more...

Opinions - Hull - A Letter to Jon Snow Channel 4 By Maurice Fairfield - Another program knocking Hull?

	I have lived in Australia for twenty years but I was born in Hull in 1928 and have lived with patronising contempt for the place ringing in my ears all my life. Perhaps less the town and its people in general but the working-class people who have lived with the contempt of the middle-class who lived off them and who I remember as themselves contemptible. Read more...

Opinions - Hull By By Ted Oliver (Manager of the Spring Bank Community Centre, Hull )

I moved to Hull with my parents in 1993 when I was just 13 years old, from a little village called Hunmanby, just near the popular holiday resort Primrose Valley. I must admit that my first impressions of Hull were not good, but over the last 12 years I've really come to love living and working here. Hull is a very multi-cultural city and always has been - ever since the docks first opened over 500 years ago. Read more...

Opinions - Hull By Lee Cassanell

	Hull is a town of apathy and idiots brimming with all kinds of degenerate scumbags that should be beaten to a bloody pulp and sterilised at birth. Most of the citizens have next to no communication skills, they are backstabbing ego maniacs who think just because they mumbled their way through a Look North interview or have been in the Hull Daily Mail Read more...

Opinions - Hull By Jeni Edge

I have been told by Channel 4 that I should not take the programme The Best and Worst Places to Live seriously, it is intended to be light-hearted and just a joke. But it is irresponsible of the media to claim that they have no impact, and if there is a joke the laughter is at the expense of the poor. To blight an entire city and excuse yourself because it was not meant seriously is no more acceptable Read more...

Opinions - Hull By Ted Robinson

	I have lived in Hull since 1996. I have had my car broken into seven times, I have also been violently robbed in the street and most of the people I know here have been burgled. So YES, Hull deserves to be at the bottom of the pile (and in all cases, the police proved to be useless)!

Opinions - It's Your Money, Why Are You Not Seeing Any Of It? By Anonymous

	Regeneration, Community Development, all those 'community' workers that litter the city, preaching change and empowerment for the people of the city. Ever wondered where they have come from, how they are paid, and what the funding they get to play with is spent on? Funding, wherever it comes from be it Government or the Lottery for example Read more...

Opinions - Living in Hull By Marphy Jones

	I am a foreigner living in Hull. My opinion is that Hull is really a worst place - full of naughty kids, impolite people, and a dirty environment. I think what you can do is to improve these images instead of constantly explaining that Hull is not a worst city. Commit to the facts and then make some improvements to show them! I have some suggestions: Read more...

Opinions - Hull By Paul Thompson

	I am planning to study at Hull. The city centre seemed OK when I looked round although it could do with some more regeneration. I have seen much worse in my opinion - areas like Coventry. There appears to be little gun crime, good nightlife, cheap houses friendly people, a very good university and I like the shopping centre. The area around the university is nice and green too. Read more...

Opinions - Channel 4's Best and Worst By Mark Pollard

	Last night's (Tuesday 9th August 2005) Channel 4 aired a programme which listed the ten best and ten worst places to live in the UK. It was one of the most ill-researched, unbalanced and downright irresponsible pieces of television that I have seen for many years. I used to regard Channel 4 as being a bit like BBC2 with adverts; unfortunately, they seem to be moving Read more...

Opinions - Bomb By Margaret Ryan
	For three fraught hours I believed my girlfriend was dead. Hearing snatched rumours of a bomb in rush-hour London I desperately rang her mobile again and again. At that time of 10:54am on 7/7 this, for me, had started. In those hours a quiet despair filled me. My only response was to scour the newspapers and news blogs. Read more...

Opinions - The Bitch Hikers Guide to The Fashionista Dance Troupe! By Mr. B. Quiet
	Yep, it's finally arrived! Hull's finally caught up with England's dream of alternative culture! Everyone buys their LP's by the nations favourite drug users from popular chain store supermarkets and spends £85 quid on a pair of designer jeans that have been ripped at the knees (Bros anyone?), before running off to Read more...

Opinions - Mother's Day By Andrea Longstaff
	Rain! Rain! Rain! Is this Mother Nature's symbolism? The bursting of the amniotic sack? Well it's not big and it's not clever! It's like some select club that I'm not a member of, and at my age (weirdo)! I'm made to feel like an outcast! I'm mocked by the little ones cos I've Read more...