Just in

Articles by National Rust Newsdesk

Who dares sometimes wins

Despite my general antipathy towards technology over time I am pleased to report that I have mastered the rudiments of being able to record television programmes before they are aired – or alternatively go back and watch those I have missed via a ‘catch up’ facility –  on my cable TV [...]

February 15, 2017 // 0 Comments

One way of passing an afternoon I suppose

Saturday 7th January 2017: Aviva Premiership Round 13: Harlequins v Sale Sharks at the Stoop, kick-off 1500 hours: Result – Harlequins 29 Sale Sharks 26. Harlequins now 7th in the league table on 32 points, level with Leicester Tigers who have a game in hand, and 6 points behind Bath Rugby in 4th [...]

January 8, 2017 // 0 Comments

Day Two in Mallorca

The weather out here in Palma resembles a balmy mid-September UK during daylight, becoming significantly colder once the sun goes down about 6.00pm. Day Two began about 10.00am when my son Barry came to pick me up and take me to his industrial unit about 15 miles out of town, the hub of his [...]

December 17, 2016 // 0 Comments

Some things never change

Nobody in the know on such matters would be in the slightest surprised at the ‘news’ just announced that the BBC’s coverage of the Euro 2016 cup final out scored ITV’s by a 5 to 1 margin in the viewing ratings. See here – as reported on the website of the DAILY MIRROR [...]

July 19, 2016 // 0 Comments

The Last Supper

Yesterday was my last full day in Nice. It seems ages ago that I arrived at the airport expecting the waiting smiles of the advance party Grania and Polly and the booked taxi driverbut none of them were there. You can only go uphill from there and indeed I did. Rather than pick out memorable days I [...]

April 15, 2016 // 0 Comments

One that both teams needed to win

On the Rust we rarely tend to post multiple reports on a sporting fixture and here’s a first from the sport of rugby union: Aviva Premiership Round 13 – Friday 19th February 2016, kick-off 7.45pm – The Stoop – Harlequins 25 Leicester Tigers 19. (Quins 4 league points: Leicester Tigers 1). [...]

February 20, 2016 // 0 Comments

Please pardon my ‘doubting Thomas’ moment …

[The Stoop, Saturday 9th January 2015: Aviva Premiership Round 9: Harlequins 29 Saracens 23.] As I type this I’m trying to think of comparable days in my life to match yesterday – perhaps the birth of my kids; my two wedding days; my last day at school on which I captained my house to a win in [...]

January 10, 2016 // 0 Comments

So far so good (possibly)

Sandy Park, Saturday 28th November – Aviva Premiership Round 5 – Exeter Chiefs 26 [4 league points for a win] Harlequins 25 [2 bonus points, one for ending within 7 points, one for scoring four tries]. We like coming from slightly left field on the Rust but I would like it to be known that [...]

November 29, 2015 // 0 Comments

Building momentum

You can call it lazy journalism if you wish but that wouldn’t bother me. A few days ago, writing on this website, I suggested that the recently-published list of new peers was either a perfect example of extreme uncaring Establishment folly … or (alternatively) a deliberately [...]

August 30, 2015 // 0 Comments

Inevitable, I suppose

A while back, commenting upon the influence – and not always in a good way – of grubby business practices upon the world of elite sport, I made mention of Bernie Ecclestone’s German potentially-catastrophic court case in which he had been accused of bribery on a grand scale. Today we [...]

August 6, 2014 // 0 Comments

1 2 3 4

Copyright © 2024 The National Rust | Design by Premonition