A selection of stuff
As the festive season gathers pace – I don’t know about you – but it seems to me that external events increasingly begin flying in to disrupt our attention from things that we really ought – or want – to be doing.
(And I’m not referring to Christmas shopping).
In case Rusters haven’t had time to open their windows upon the world, here are some items I spotted overnight on the newspaper websites that others might have missed:
BREXIT
Robert Fisk is a veteran reporter on the Middle East with a generally anti-Western World viewpoint.
Here he offers offers some pointers about how to run politics and countries without cow-towing to anything so inefficient and frustrating as democracy, as appears today upon the website of – THE INDEPENDENT
MUSIC LISTS
A subject that invariably gets people comparing any chosen selection with their own.
Barely a month after the release of a 50th anniversary remastered and anthologised version of their classic LP Beggars Banquet Graeme Ross offers his selection of the ten best-ever Rolling Stones albums on the website of – THE INDEPENDENT
Roison O’ Conner and Alexandra Pollard lay out their 18 best-ever Christmas songs on the website of – THE INDEPENDENT
THE STATE OF THE COUNTRY
In a modern world in which a worrying proportion of the UK population under the age of forty apparently have no idea who Paul McCartney is and believe that Churchill was/is a fictional character, here’s a report by Gemma Francis upon the results of a surveys of 2,000 Brits that shouldn’t perhaps surprise anyone, as appears today upon the website of – THE INDEPENDENT
Earlier this year my son explained to me – not that I understood quite understood him – how, as part of a necessary personal security protection strategy – everyone can and should ‘get off the regular internet’ (on which anyone can be identified and traced via their email and other ‘connections’) and instead register with some different kind of internet which ensures you can never be traced, not least because – at any time – you can apparently ‘change’ your world location at will.
It looks as if fans of the BBC’s autumn schedule staple Strictly Come Dancing are using something like to try an influence the outcome of the Final which is broadcast this coming weekend – see here on the website of the – DAILY MAIL
TENNIS
Yesterday it was announced that Wimbledon Park Golf Club – close to which I once lived and where, whilst I was never a member, often used to play a round – has decided to sell itself to the Wimbledon tennis organisation. Here’s a link to a piece by Mike Dickson which explains and illustrates the latter’s future plans, as appears today upon the website of the – DAILY MAIL
Jonathan Leiw, a talented sportswriter whom I note has a prominent entry in the Pseuds’ Corner section of the latest edition of Private Eye, reported on 28th November (I only spotted this item last night) upon some of the issues currently affecting the world of professional tennis on the website of – THE INDEPENDENT
HEALTH
It seems that the dangers of pickling up diabetes type 2 – as people can apparently often do in later life – are not limited to the hitherto well-known ones: see here for a piece by Colin Fernandez, medical correspondent of the – DAILY MAIL
One can sometimes be forgiven for believing that there is no end to things that can go wrong health-wise (who was it that once commented “Life is a terminal disease”?) and here’s an article by Alexandra Thompson that does nothing to dispel the notion, as appears today upon the website of the – DAILY MAIL
