Richard Ord Deputy Editor
  • Sunderland
  • National World

Columnist and deputy print editor for Sunderland Echo, Shields Gazette and Hartlepool Mail.

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70 Articles
9 months ago
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RICHARD ORD:

​Thinking of giving up smoking? Let me direct you to the nearest packet of cigarettes.

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10 months ago
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RICHARD ORD: How do you like your political potatoes? Half-baked or cremated?

Give a man a fish and he’ll eat for a day. Give him a fishing rod… and he’ll be able to sell it for, like, £100 and e...

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10 months ago
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RICHARD ORD: Give the Beeb, and my body parts, a break

As big stories of the day go, I think it’s touch and go between me hurting my hand playing cricket and some unnamed f...

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11 months ago
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RICHARD ORD: One billion of our dinosaurs is missing... probably more

There has been much talk of AI wiping out humanity sometime in the near future. Anywhere between 20 years and the nex...

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12 months ago
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RICHARD ORD: Stick that in your pipe... but don't smoke it

Just when you thought it was safe to send your kids to the sweet shop, turns out liquorice pipes are still being sold.

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12 months ago
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RICHARD ORD: Why I mourn the death of the world’s dullest chocolate bar

Just heard the sad news that they no longer produce Topic confectionery bars.

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12 months ago
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RICHARD ORD: Why I mourn the death of the world’s dullest chocolate bar

Just heard the sad news that they no longer produce Topic confectionery bars.

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about 1 year ago
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RICHARD ORD: The fickle 'fat finger' of fate falls on King Charles III

There isn’t an entry in the Guinness Book of Records for the world’s fattest fingers… someone ought to tell King Char...

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about 1 year ago
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RICHARD ORD: Forget baking beans, it's AI chatbots that will cook your goose

In fiction, the end of the world and similar dystopian nightmares often begin quite quietly.

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about 1 year ago
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RICHARD ORD: Could AI take my job? Let's find out

As a journalist, it's always been my job to ask the tough questions and uncover the hard-hitting truths.

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about 1 year ago
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RICHARD ORD: King's Coronation quiche left me stumped

The cricket season looms once again and so all thoughts turn, naturally, towards mini sausage rolls.

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about 1 year ago
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RICHARD ORD: Brian Cox is all that stands between me and rock immortality

It’s good to see my eldest son has inherited my innate dynamism and indestructible lust for life.

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