Aidan Semmens, writer, editor, photographer, designer  
Columnist

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"I enjoy reading your column even when I disagree with you — no, especially when I disagree with you"
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"You sound like a Muslim - and you look like one too"

Semmens on sport:

Brief season of annual optimism
Chelsea success is no good for Britain
Phoenix to the Ashes
Seeing yellow, Beckham-style
Hao hai would you go?
A good win for the ref
Ee-aye-addio, we're out the Cup!
The ultimate in naff
Old blokes saying daft things
Decadence of a once-beautiful game

Now you judge:

Why is the world warming up?
Storm over Stromness
Discredit where it's due
Taking the brainwash pledge
A hero in the war for truth
Thoughts on the death penalty
Just because Al Fayed's paranoid...
Porn inflation and a society in decline
My new guide on the information super-railway
It's not rocket science - or is it?
See the world and help destroy it
Nuclear power - we should listen to a real expert
The answer is blowing in the wind
Stuff Christmas
Royal finds pedants revolting
Enriched with advanced BS
The unpopular truth about drug laws
At one with the tribe, at loggerheads with loggers
Nightmare without end for Kate and Gerry McCann
A land where food matters
Driving v walking: a green own goal
Awkward truth comes out of the woods
Smiles and humanity in the war-torn Congo
Wembley - and lousy acoustics for all
Just a Dig at Preston
Dogs, blogs and baloney
Pushing God like candy to innocent kids
Torture porn - the killers' manual
The Genuine article - how can you be Shaw?
On revolution, history and journalism
The dumb, deadly American way
Dylan: still the Wicked Messenger
It's not just about the bullies
Slavery - why it's wrong to say sorry
Dangerous games
Tragedy of a non-fighting man
Why I eat meat, despite 'farming' horrors
Robbing children of their childhood
Talking turkey about bird flu outbreak
Mental scars of the innocent witness
Tell Sid the empire isn't British any more
The United Kingdom of Britain and France
Laugh? We nearly died
Saddam - execution, or lynching?
Grim fame Suffolk didn't want
Blair's missed chance of a non-nuclear legacy
Dissension in paradise
News, news everywhere
The Unknown Economist and the scoop no one wants
Korea and Iraq, by those who really know
Shortage? Water shortage?
The war of Labour succession
Who are we at war with?
What does the elephant think of the zoo?
The hardest lesson of hard punishment
Israel: tragedy of victims turned victimisers
Women against pointless packaging
So which road is the government taking?
What's so British about our values?
Transport policy: speeding to the end of the road
Save us all from the Humberside hulk
Rewriting history as abhorrent myth
Faith, hope and atheism
Teach hatred and horrors will follow
What's black-and-white, and rainbow all over?
Education, education in Looking-Glass Britain
Irving and the Big Lie
ID fraud will turn me blue yet
Cartoon riots and the real extremists
The fat and ugly truth about obesity
Rapid riser in the league of oppressive nations
Ruth Kelly and the pervert teachers
Icons of Englishness
Monster lunch in the land of giants
The must-have accessory that isn't
No nukes is still good nukes
Blair's betting on boozy Britain
Egrets? I've seen a few...
Smoking ban - the fundamental flaw
Fear that is strictly for the birds
There are two sides to the question of balance
Meeting-houses of the living and the dead
Dying to be remembered
New Orleans - no best-case scenario
Where the burden of proof lies on Iraq
French food for thought
Freezers - the real price of chilling out
Modern life is rubbish
Gym'll fix it
Throwaway food for thought
Suicide bombers' strange way to paradise
Live 8 - it's all a bit rich
George Bush's freedom with the truth
Very midsummer madness
Safe as houses?
Park life's too lovely to take for granted
So is that it for Europe?
Why Bush, Blair - and Hitler - invented enemies
With all due respect...
Blair-Brown handover - it's not that simple
Living still with the romance of wartime
Labour delivers a kick in the teeth
Popes John Paul and Benedict
The boy with no name
Chas 'n Milla —so who cares?
What's the big idea?
Do you want to live forever?
On the road to a decongested future
Time for a go-slow on fast food
I'd like to apologise
It's my party
Oops - I touched a nerve
Vehicle of choice for the hard-of-thinking
The answer is blowing in the wind
Recycling Christmas
A statement is a question?
Is the end in sight for the great air adventure?
The danger and disaster of democracy
Stopped in our tracks by the Gherkin
The Doomsday scenario
Preparing for Emergencies - or why Bush needs Bin Laden
Rebuilding bridges in Bosnia
Bodyweight and life-expectancy
Olympics - the dream and the nightmare
How the Church missed its chance to grow up
Easter, the moveable feast

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