I TAKE issue with points made on this page last week by fellow columnist Stephen King.

THE passion thing is getting to me.

IT’S no more than a possibility, but a possibility it is, nonetheless.

CONSIDER this as a public relations strategy.

WITH all these cheap air flights to European capital cities, I’m a bit surprised that the Child of Prague hasn’t made a big comeback.

When she was driving the Lexus into the last parking space, she noticed the woman with the platinum page boy hairdo.

SO FAR, the score is one Waterford Glass tumbler, two plates and a cereal bowl.

No matter how many months he had been sober, no matter how, objectively, he knew that drinking was the road to hell, the visceral craving for alcohol overcame his resolution and he repeatedly relapsed.

YOU remember the pictures. Of course you do. Guys in good business suits, standing on the sidewalks of American cities, selling apples. It was the definitive visual representation of the onset of the Great Depression.

ALISTAIR CAMPBELL, in person, is taller, funnier and infinitely more charming than he is in print.