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An enjoyable lunch

Yesterday I had lunch with an very old pal of mine, a heavy hitter in the ad world and a sports media personality who was a former footballer. I thought I would be reprising my trip in Nice but our conversation was more catholic. My ad friend, picking up on Alice Mansfield’s theme, is an [...]

May 10, 2017 // 0 Comments

Boats ahoy!

On Wednesday I jumped onto an Easyjet flight at Gatwick in order to nip down to Palma, Mallorca, and spend just 28 hours seeing my son Barry who lives and works there. I’d originally hoped to do this seven days earlier – on his birthday – but such is his hectic work schedule that he [...]

April 28, 2017 // 0 Comments

Health and relationships

It’s an open secret that the editorial board of the Rust rarely meets in person, conducting as it does most of its business via the modern technological marvel of the internet. However, it is also metaphorically true that – at our editorial ‘gatherings’ over the ether – nothing invites [...]

April 19, 2017 // 0 Comments

An Easter Sunday clear-out

Approaching the end of a quiet Easter weekend at home, for want of anything better to do, yesterday I decided on a whim to see just how much of my wardrobe I could consign to the rubbish tip. I had better explain two aspects to this project. Firstly, I am the kind of guy who pays but passing [...]

April 17, 2017 // 0 Comments

Much ado about nothing (possibly)

The recent furore attending upon Sunderland football manager David Moyes’ inappropriate end-of-interview remark to female BBC sports reporter Vicki Sparks has not only highlighted several issues but launched a thousand newspaper columns and caused innumerable rent-a-mouths to bestride the [...]

April 6, 2017 // 0 Comments

Aspects of political correctness

Here’s an early bid to win a nomination for the shortlist of the 2017 version of the internal Rusters’ competition to find the most incongruous link between two media stories. My starting point is that familiar old bugbear of the editorial team – the wonderful world of Political Correctness. [...]

March 29, 2017 // 0 Comments

Turning back time (not)

I didn’t watch yesterday England’s 2-0 World Cup qualifier win over Lithuania yesterday because I was on my way to the gym and wasn’t that interested. Call me old-fashioned in this era when FIFA want 128 or something nations to play in the World Cup Finals but, for me, in prospect any England [...]

March 27, 2017 // 0 Comments

Dearie me

No apologies for this one! On the Rust we all mock ourselves for ‘cheating’ whenever we spot a silly piece in the media covering some whacky survey or published research, off which we can make some hopefully amusing comment and/or comparison with one’s own life. Here’s a [...]

March 24, 2017 // 0 Comments

Rubbing it in …

Yesterday I was flicking through The Times newspaper and gave myself a bit of a fright. Well, Doctor Mark Porter – who is either their medical correspondent and/or a regular columnist on medical matters – did. In a piece entitled Paternal age could be an important factor in the health of your [...]

February 22, 2017 // 0 Comments

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