Articles by Richard Bolton

Hmmnnn ….

They say of London buses that when you need one they don’t come for ages – and, when eventually they do, several arrive in convoy. As a senior citizen, I say similarly damn this internet thing, whose most annoying aspect is almost the reverse. When you read something of note somewhere on a [...]

November 7, 2016 // 0 Comments

Working it all out

Whenever we contemplate life’s innumerable mysteries, the imaginative scope of the human brain soon reaches its outer limits and we have to resort to head-shaking wonder and quite possibly the issue of whether God exists or not and other similarly-profound matters. It is almost as if the more [...]

September 28, 2016 // 0 Comments

Eighty not out

Some might call it lazy journalism, but they don’t understand what websites such as the Rust are about. Our primary purpose is to reflect the interests, observations, attitudes and complications of life as it is lived in the 21st Century by those who have reached broadly the age of fifty or [...]

July 29, 2016 // 0 Comments

Chilcot reaction

The publication yesterday of the 2.6 million word (twelve volume) Chilcot Report presented something of a challenge for an organ such as the Rust. Regular readers will be familiar with our standard approach to current and sporting events – viz. that we tend to avoid straight journalistic [...]

July 7, 2016 // 0 Comments

The Greatest

It had been a long time coming but the news of Muhammad Ali’s passing will rock the world for a while. Like millions of others I shall spend this weekend listening to, reading and watching the tributes to his life and career in a state of numbed fascination and wonder. I shall feel entitled to do [...]

June 4, 2016 // 0 Comments

Battening down the hatches

During the course of the last seven days there have been two media stories that have highlighted the gulf that exists between men and women. Firstly, there has been the news that those campaigning on both sides of the EU Referendum debate are being urged to address their ‘women’ problem [...]

May 31, 2016 // 0 Comments

Answering Ireland’s call – but which one?

Sometimes one spots an article in the national media that is not only enlightening and informative and actually makes one sit up and think. Here’s a link to one from Robert Fisk, who normally covers things connected with politics and conflict in the Middle East, on the centenary celebrations [...]

January 19, 2016 // 0 Comments

Definitely worth a read

Spotted today, this article by Patrick Cockburn on the website of THE [...]

January 9, 2016 // 0 Comments

We’re all being watched, get over it!

On my daily perusal of the UK national newspaper websites this morning I came across the following item about a new Tory government initiative – see here – in THE INDEPENDENT It seems to me that there are points to make on both sides of the issue, as follows: Firstly, that the Government [...]

September 7, 2015 // 0 Comments

A blast from the past

These days it is often considered that the word ‘genius’ [broadly defined in most dictionaries as ‘an exceptional intellectual or creative power or other natural ability … (or perhaps exceptional skill in a particular area of activity)’] is over-used. For example, and exaggerating to make [...]

August 25, 2015 // 0 Comments

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