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Award-winning columnist and blogger. Keeping an eye on the tribulations and trivia of a fast-changing world

June 19, 2020

Peter Rhodes on parachuting, baby-boomers and the case for drinking lager before drafting laws

Peter Rhodes|Jun 19, 2020

June 18, 2020

Peter Rhodes on a puzzling sign, our obsession with America and things created on the back of fag packets

Peter Rhodes|Jun 18, 2020

June 17, 2020

Peter Rhodes on statues, stigma and modern heroes who turn out to have feet of clay

Peter Rhodes|Jun 17, 2020

June 16, 2020

Peter Rhodes on a missing bear, the ending of slavery and the fraught business of taking the knee

Peter Rhodes|Jun 16, 2020

June 15, 2020

Peter Rhodes on bat-eared masks, the decline of gammon and the strange ending of the British Empire

Peter Rhodes|Jun 15, 2020

June 12, 2020

Peter Rhodes on white privilege, TV make-up and why subtitles never get any better

Peter Rhodes|Jun 12, 2020

June 11, 2020

Peter Rhodes on the desecration of a national symbol, a shortage of logic and a tradition of chucking things in the river

Peter Rhodes|Jun 11, 2020

June 10, 2020

Peter Rhodes on taking a tumble, face-mask embarrassment and the future for Nitty Norah

Peter Rhodes|Jun 10, 2020

June 9, 2020

Peter Rhodes on high heels, dodgy statistics and unwitting guinea pigs in London

Peter Rhodes|Jun 9, 2020

June 8, 2020

Peter Rhodes on the gentlest touches, a misguided demo and whatever happened to the slave-trade profits in Africa?

Peter Rhodes|Jun 8, 2020

June 5, 2020

Peter Rhodes on double standards, gull-free meals and why a bald head has become a prized scalp

Peter Rhodes|Jun 5, 2020

June 4, 2020

Peter Rhodes on a scrapped holiday, HS2's vanishing profits and the humbling of a Speaker

Peter Rhodes|Jun 4, 2020

June 3, 2020

Peter Rhodes on living for the moment, an equation for our time and the enigma of the hidden camera

Peter Rhodes|Jun 3, 2020

June 2, 2020

Peter Rhodes on going forward and hijacking the rainbow flag

Peter Rhodes|Jun 2, 2020

Meet the foundling who found joy despite hardships

Wolverhampton|Jun 2, 2020

June 1, 2020

Peter Rhodes on otters, trials without juries and the lurking menace of TB

Peter Rhodes|Jun 1, 2020

May 29, 2020

Peter Rhodes on bookies, hot spots and the Dominic Cummings scandal that simply went away

Peter Rhodes|May 29, 2020

May 28, 2020

Peter Rhodes on a hidden message, the wisdom of William Brown and the continuing campaign to get Cummings

Peter Rhodes|May 28, 2020

May 27, 2020

Peter Rhodes on smart Alecs, viral remedies and how to be a broadcaster

Peter Rhodes|May 27, 2020

May 26, 2020

Peter Rhodes on the vanishing future, amateur theatricals in Westminster and a case of advertising overload

Peter Rhodes|May 26, 2020

May 25, 2020

Peter Rhodes on a Black Country legend, the EasyJet hack and the return of parliamentary debate.

Peter Rhodes|May 25, 2020

May 22, 2020

Peter Rhodes on smoking in a face mask, respecting the old and keeping suffering in perspective

Peter Rhodes|May 22, 2020

May 21, 2020

Peter Rhodes on an airborne author, a president's experiment and the dawning of a glorious new age

Peter Rhodes|May 21, 2020

May 20, 2020

Peter Rhodes on dodgy hairdos, the fading case for HS2 and llamas to the rescue

Peter Rhodes|May 20, 2020

May 19, 2020

Peter Rhodes on obvious answers, hard times for shoplifters and a new game – guess the gizmo

Peter Rhodes|May 19, 2020

May 18, 2020

Peter Rhodes on nuclear rain, an archbishop on the ward and why a game-changer may not change the game

Peter Rhodes|May 18, 2020

May 15, 2020

Peter Rhodes on the perils of technology, the return of weddings and a perfect storm coming this weekend

Peter Rhodes|May 15, 2020

May 14, 2020

Peter Rhodes on happy cyclists, a poorly fox and how to keep orders simple

Peter Rhodes|May 14, 2020

May 13, 2020

Peter Rhodes on a mysterious smoke alarm, lifting lockdown and the unbelievable lightness of boating

Peter Rhodes|May 13, 2020

May 12, 2020

Peter Rhodes on cuckoos, thrushes and the Doctor Who approach to history

Peter Rhodes|May 12, 2020

May 11, 2020

Peter Rhodes on lifting lockdown, checking your oxygen and Brits who rush in where others fear to tread

Peter Rhodes|May 11, 2020

May 8, 2020

Peter Rhodes on musical murders, missing statistics and how we all know more than the experts

Peter Rhodes|May 8, 2020

May 7, 2020

Peter Rhodes on more Covid mysteries, a Dickens character in the garden and the joyous anarchy of VE-Day

Peter Rhodes|May 7, 2020

May 6, 2020

Peter Rhodes on closing churches, a national campaign against flab and discriminating against miseryguts

Peter Rhodes|May 6, 2020

May 5, 2020

Peter Rhodes on the crumbling lockdown, wooing tourists - and did a queen object to Wednesfield?

Peter Rhodes|May 5, 2020

May 4, 2020

Peter Rhodes on cavalier behaviour, idiots unmasked - and when did this pandemic really start?

Peter Rhodes|May 4, 2020

May 1, 2020

Peter Rhodes on “small bubbles” bursting, a pointless comparison and getting the NHS we need

Peter Rhodes|May 1, 2020

April 30, 2020

Peter Rhodes on problem gambling, the last taboo and why everyone's talking about Tettenhall

Peter Rhodes|Apr 30, 2020

April 29, 2020

Peter Rhodes on deserted hospitals, the two-metre rule and the many meanings of a Latin phrase

Peter Rhodes|Apr 29, 2020

April 28, 2020

Peter Rhodes on the EastEnders saga, a remedy for Trump and how an earlier pandemic vanished

Peter Rhodes|Apr 28, 2020

April 27, 2020

Peter Rhodes on predicting a pandemic, watching a demolition and the stories behind the headlines

Peter Rhodes|Apr 27, 2020

April 24, 2020

Peter Rhodes on angling after a pandemic, misleading TV reports and why are their flames higher than ours?

Peter Rhodes|Apr 24, 2020

April 23, 2020

Peter Rhodes on close-quarter clapping, preparing for another disaster and looking good in a surgical mask

Peter Rhodes|Apr 23, 2020

April 22, 2020

Peter Rhodes on a new tsar, smelling a rat and the case for promoting Captain Tom

Peter Rhodes|Apr 22, 2020

April 21, 2020

Peter Rhodes on a celebrity infection, the future for theatre and something wizard from Oz

Peter Rhodes|Apr 21, 2020

April 20, 2020

Peter Rhodes on the tumbling of a wall, the dangers of religion and meeting a literary giant

Peter Rhodes|Apr 20, 2020

April 17, 2020

Peter Rhodes on the revenge of the millennials, a cure for fly-tipping and the benefits of counting to ten

Peter Rhodes|Apr 17, 2020

April 16, 2020

Peter Rhodes on crowded housing, wacky virus theories and reasons to be hopeful

Peter Rhodes|Apr 16, 2020

April 15, 2020

Peter Rhodes on “fighting” illness, silly escapism and a great year for blossom

Peter Rhodes|Apr 15, 2020

April 14, 2020

Peter Rhodes on Starmer's unknowns, traditional weather and a time of reckoning for our universities

Peter Rhodes|Apr 14, 2020

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