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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

Sir Geoffrey exits (stage right) …

On 21st October this year, assuming all remains as is – coincidentally the 215th anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar – Sir Geoffrey Boycott will celebrate his 80th birthday. I think it is fair to describe Boycott as a singular man in the twin senses of “exceptional” and [...]

June 10, 2020 // 0 Comments

The mystery unravels

Whilst my flying parasol has been returned, Inspector Tickler is still on the case. In particular why has been there no response from my neighbour? Late in the afternoon there was: she wrote a reply on the back of my second letter which contained an invitation to a barbecue and my request for her [...]

June 10, 2020 // 0 Comments

Two jolts whilst I was busy doing nothing

Time catches up with us all, of course, albeit that most of the time – despite our jokes at the dinner table about bits falling off, hair (either receding in anticipated parts of the body and/or growing in others you didn’t know you had), expanding waistlines and going somewhere in [...]

June 7, 2020 // 0 Comments

Remembering ROUND ONE

I too served my journo apprenticeship with Round One along with Jimmy Westacott and retain the happiest memories. Walter Schlumbermayer contributed a column he wired over in those pre internet days called `Stateside with Schlumbermayer’. He took us into the Garden, steaks at Jack Dempsey’s [...]

June 6, 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

Tony Zale – hewn of rock

Many years ago I cut my teeth as a boxing hack on alternative boxing publication called Round One. It was comprised of wannabees like me and has beens like Walter Schlumbermayer. Uncle Walt as we called him was as well known and respected as AJ Leibling and to have met him was a considerable [...]

June 5, 2020 // 0 Comments

Reflections

Yesterday for the first time in 10 weeks, I judged it safe to take a corporation bus. It was spotlessly clean and for most of my short journey I was the only passenger. The only breach of social distancing I saw was a van by the kerbside that sold hot food. It is popular with workers at the [...]

June 4, 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

Keeping an eye on what’s happening

It’s a funny old world. During the gestation period of this organ, in our wildest imaginings not a man jack among the original editorial team had the slightest idea that in a few short years the Rust would become one of the world’s most popular go-to websites or achieve its current ever-growing [...]

June 3, 2020 // 0 Comments

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