Andrew Martin

Life & Society

Sidelines - Andrew Martin misses a train at Bradford

• 30 September 2002

My memories of Bradford amount to once missing a train there

Life & Society

Sidelines - Andrew Martin defends Yorkshire plain-speaking

• 23 September 2002

A Yorkshireman is rude equally to his wife, his parents, his friends and his dog

Society

Andrew Martin finds northerners scoffing the pies

• 16 September 2002

Sidelines - Who ate all the pies? Who ate all the pies? Why it was Leeds, of course . . .

Life & Society

Sidelines - Andrew Martin on how hacks are poorer than lawyers

• 09 September 2002

A BMW, a big house and a powdered wig - they all could have been mine

Sidelines - Andrew Martin plans a website for the north

• 02 September 2002

Less dust and more Ken Dodd, that's what awaits you in the real north

Sidelines - Andrew Martin once nearly met Paul McCartney

• 26 August 2002

I nearly met Paul McCartney once - and all because of a turkey masturbator

Diary - Andrew Martin

• 19 August 2002

My six-year-old son buys potatoes at the greengrocer's for his Lone Star Super Spud Gun. Do greengrocers realise that, technically speaking, they're engaged in arms dealing?

Life & Society

Sidelines - Andrew Martin finds Devon too gloomy

• 19 August 2002

There's more gloom in Devon than even in Yorkshire

Sidelines - Andrew Martin thinks London is too crowded

• 12 August 2002

London is so crowded that no whim or desire you may have is ever unique

Life & Society

Sidelines - Andrew Martin on Fred Trueman, the great northerner

• 05 August 2002

Fred Trueman - the last of the great professional northerners