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The state of opinion forming (not informed opinion)

My contribution today comes from my perspective as a privileged, white, sixty-something male with no particular political axe to grind – which description in itself probably marks me as someone who has as many weaknesses (and lack of appreciation of the world’s problems) in terms of his genes, [...]

June 10, 2020 // 0 Comments

It takes all sorts

One aspect of the ongoing pandemic crisis that occasionally irritates me is the stupidity of other people. There, I’ve admitted it. No doubt it springs from my own smugness, racism, snobbery, personal stupidity and arrogant lack of tolerance; however, I cannot help it – listening to people [...]

June 5, 2020 // 0 Comments

Coronavirus percentages and life chances

Here’s a link to an article by Professor Karol Sikora on the pandemic and the current factors – and the “at risk” groups prey to them – that appeared overnight on the website of the – DAILY MAIL No doubt there’ll be many people – like me – going [...]

June 3, 2020 // 0 Comments

Women and sport

It is arguable that one of the greatest casualties of the global coronavirus pandemic has been the last half century’s advancement of female equality. Already it has been reported that, in direct consequence of the UK lockdown, female employees has been more likely to be furloughed and/or [...]

May 30, 2020 // 0 Comments

What’s Going On – as Marvin Gaye might have sung …

To borrow a phrase, democracy is a many-splendoured thing but also – as to paraphrase Churchill – that is, if it wasn’t one of those clever/profound bon mots he didn’t actually say or write but which people fondly attribute to him because it sounds like the sort of thing he might have [...]

May 29, 2020 // 0 Comments

Jonathan Sumption speaks

Jonathan  Sumption, brilliant lawyer, High Court judge and medieval historian has been called the cleverest man in England. Here he cogently argues that the lockdown is unnecessary, ineffective and disastrous for the economy: Link courtesy of – YOUTUBE     [...]

May 27, 2020 // 0 Comments

Living some way from the front line

During a chat with a member of the Rust’s editorial team the other day he revealed that he had become the equivalent of terminally bored with the coronavirus crisis. I could instantly sympathise with where he was coming from, not least because the effects of Covid-19 so dominate the newspapers [...]

May 20, 2020 // 0 Comments

Sad and inconvenient truths

Life, as an elderly uncle commented the other day, joshing me gently with a black-humoured chuckle, is a terminal disease. The notion is not incompatible with the principle that all lives are equally important. Amidst the continuing media storm over the Government’s handling of the [...]

May 15, 2020 // 0 Comments

Nothing to write home about, as usual

For my sins, last night I watched Boris’ Speech to the Nation on BBC One at 7.00pm and the the Huw Edwards-anchored BBC News Special that followed. Long-suffering Rusters will be aware of my overwhelming cynicism towards politicians, which extends to the view that Boris is not Premier material [...]

May 11, 2020 // 0 Comments

Hysteria has pulled into town

Last weekend – from personal experience – I found myself drawing inexorably towards the view that the British public had either gone mad and/or, fuelled by boredom, frustration and perhaps a sense of “Oh, what the hell …?”, had begun to ignore the Government’s “Stay Home, Protect the [...]

May 10, 2020 // 0 Comments

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