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Trying to make sense of it all

Sitting locked away in my bunker, surveying a world that seems simultaneously to have discarded judgement and reason and thereby become become appreciably more dangerous, I wondered whether Rust readers might benefit from being recommended this link to an article by John Harris, as appears today on [...]

October 28, 2016 // 0 Comments

The world’s gone mad (again)

It is not often that I am up at the time on a Thursday (10.35pm or thereabouts) for the BBC1 Question Time programme chaired by David Dimbleby, as I was last night. The first two topics discussed were those of the US Presidential debate and, of course with Mrs May at her first EU summit, Brexit. [...]

October 20, 2016 // 0 Comments

And suddenly – we voted Brexit, folks (apparently)!

Overnight I visited the website of The Independent and suddenly felt that I’d fallen into a parallel universe in which Brexit had suddenly become the only topic of the moment. Flicking to the equivalents of the other what-used-to-be-called UK broadsheet ‘serious’ newspapers and normality [...]

October 19, 2016 // 0 Comments

A matter of expediency

Some might think in prospect that it is a jump too far somehow manage to compose a blog post linking the EU Referendum result to the recent involuntary (I’m not discussing here Will Young’s decision to walk away from the show) three celebrity ‘votings-off’ the BBC’s weekend ratings [...]

October 18, 2016 // 0 Comments

Brexit confusion

Yesterday I watched the Six O’Clock News on BBC1 on which the opening story was the developing row at Prime Minister’s Question Time and elsewhere over whether Parliament should be allowed to scrutinise the Government’s strategy and/or ‘opening position’ on its Brexit negotiations  or [...]

October 13, 2016 // 0 Comments

Stalemate in the wee hours

My past 24 hours was somewhat dominated by the second US presidential election (Donald Trump v Hillary Clinton) TV debate which took place from 2.00am this morning. After having a relatively quiet Sunday – reading the papers, watching the Andrew Marr Show and then then Sunday Politics, snoozing [...]

October 10, 2016 // 0 Comments

It entirely depends where you’re coming from

As I type I’m sitting at my computer in the small hours with the BBC television coverage of first of the live US presidential debates playing in the background and finding it fascinating. Sometimes my pals and others complain that my views (anti-views?) are extreme, facile or just too cynical for [...]

September 27, 2016 // 0 Comments

Strange times or perhaps maybe not

It is difficult to avoid the view that we live in interesting times, but then in reality all times are ‘interesting’, irrespective of whether they appear to be hosting a bigger number of earth-shattering or iconic events that one might normally expect. Right now we’re approaching getting the [...]

September 12, 2016 // 0 Comments

It does make me smile

Regular Rust readers will know that I exercised my most fundamental democratic right (some might say duty) for the first time in my life on 23rd June 2016 when I recorded my vote in favour of Brexit in the UK’s EU Referendum. To this day I remain defiant in the face of constant criticism from [...]

September 8, 2016 // 0 Comments

An incident in a supermarket

A true story. Yesterday, shortly before 6.00pm, I set off to drive into my local town in order to buy some food provisions that (I had been informed) were absolutely essential if I wished to enjoy the full majesty of my much-anticipated evening meal. My shop of choice for this expedition was [...]

August 26, 2016 // 0 Comments

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