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Eddie Jones in the dock

The fall-out ramifications from England’s loss to Scotland in the Calcutta Cup match on Saturday evening continue to dominate the sporting media and – justifiably, many fans and pundits believe – Eddie Jones continues to cop most of the flak for England’s spectacular slide from [...]

February 7, 2022 // 0 Comments

Scotland hold on for a famous victory

Writing as a Scot now residing in the English home counties, yesterday’s 20-17 rugby union victory over England at Murrayfield comfortably qualified as a welcome not to say exhilarating opening to the annual Six Nations campaign. Statistically, it is very rare that a team losing its opening game [...]

February 6, 2022 // 0 Comments

“WOKE”-WATCH LATEST

It is a duty that falls to me – as editor of The Rust – to bring to the attention of our adherents the latest madness from the 21st Century “woke”/diversity fraternity and I take no particular pleasure today in having to present to you the following:- HIGHWAY CODE CHANGES [...]

January 31, 2022 // 0 Comments

Rust “woke watch” latest (part 14)

No apologies here from me for today linking Rusters to two pieces in which columnists for one of the UK’s national newspapers decide to vent against the latest concessions to the forces of Generation X “wokedom” … THE EVER-ONWARD MARCH OF CYCLISTS AND E-SCOOTER LOONIES First [...]

January 25, 2022 // 0 Comments

New Highway Code outrage

It perhaps doesn’t quite become me, as someone who is still serving a six months disqualification from driving on the roads of the UK, to get on my high horse over the woke-prompted “positive discrimination” in favour of cyclists in the latest edition of the Highway Code which [...]

January 24, 2022 // 0 Comments

“Wokeness” is here to stay, folks …

Here are a selection of some latest media stories on the state of “wokeness” in the United Kingdom – and, inevitably, the Rust‘s “You couldn’t make it up” department would have had a field day with some of them:- The University of Northampton has decreed that some of its students [...]

January 23, 2022 // 0 Comments

Sometimes you couldn’t make it up …

It is a fact that inevitably, from time to time, stories appear in the media that seem – to the proverbial ordinary man or woman on the Clapham omnibus who can claim to possess a modicum of plain, old-fashioned, common sense (as we all can) – defy logic and/or fly in the face of every [...]

January 16, 2022 // 0 Comments

A media/sporting oddity

With my apologies in advance for stepping gingerly into our esteemed sports editor’s domain, this morning I wanted to bring to Rusters’ notice an example of media coverage that – for those who might wish to consider such things – highlights some of the difficult and [...]

January 13, 2022 // 0 Comments

A wet and unsatisfying trip to the Stoop

Yesterday I was in a party of five – three of them Exeter Chiefs supporters – that travelled to the Harlequins home ground in cold, blustery and super-wet conditions for a English Premiership clash resulting in a closely fought 14-12 victory for the hosts. It is a fact of sporting life that [...]

January 9, 2022 // 0 Comments

More “woke pro-cyclist madness” …

From our “You just couldn’t make it up” department:- Here’s another glaring example in the Rust‘s ongoing campaign against the Government’s misguided policies championing the nefarious interests of cyclists above those of tens of millions of  law-abiding [...]

January 5, 2022 // 0 Comments

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