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About Gerald Ingolby

Formerly a consumer journalist on radio and television, in 2002 Gerald published a thriller novel featuring a campaigning editor who was wrongly accused and jailed for fraud. He now runs a website devoted to consumer news. More Posts

Storm Eunice passes through

Living – as I now do – some distance away from any metropolis that matters one has to get used to the complicating factors that come with the territory – both literal and metaphorical. There exists a degree of “community feel” in the locality. Somebody began a WhatsApp group at the [...]

February 19, 2022 // 0 Comments

The decline and fall of Marks and Spencer

Many conventional reasons are given to explain the decline of Marks and Spencer – their failure to adapt to the digital age;  the dowdiness of their womenswear; the arrival of new kids on the block like Primark, New Look and Boohoo; the reduction in value of their high street sites; and a [...]

January 27, 2022 // 0 Comments

New Highway Code outrage

It perhaps doesn’t quite become me, as someone who is still serving a six months disqualification from driving on the roads of the UK, to get on my high horse over the woke-prompted “positive discrimination” in favour of cyclists in the latest edition of the Highway Code which [...]

January 24, 2022 // 0 Comments

Grinding to a halt under the eco-activist yoke

At the risk of becoming tagged as the Rust‘s unofficial motoring correspondent, today I return to the the subject of two significant threats to the quiet enjoyment of Britain’s public roads by the ordinary, average, law-abiding, private motorist – namely, cyclists and those who [...]

December 7, 2021 // 0 Comments

A hard life-lesson

It is about this time of year that I traditionally begin my latest annual fitness campaign and earlier this week I opted to visit a physiotherapist in advance for a “look-see” session and perhaps some advice. I cannot shy away from part of my motivation for this move: both my thirty-something [...]

September 17, 2021 // 0 Comments

An occupational hazard

Regular readers will be aware that my relationship with the speed limits displayed upon the roads of Britain has been slightly less than perfect during the fifty-plus years since I passed my driving test. Not to beat about the bush, it is fair to state that during the course of this period I have [...]

June 25, 2021 // 0 Comments

Fitness (new campaign) update 2

Now officially over a week into my latest fitness campaign, which has the vague goals of helping me lose up to a stone (14 pounds) in weight and revisiting the general “well-being” feeling that attends being fit, I am still stuck in the inevitable early “hard yards” phase. The first [...]

June 17, 2021 // 0 Comments

Catching the end of it

As regular Rusters will be aware, I recently began my umpteenth fitness campaign in an eternal “start-stop” routine that I have been conducting for the best part of thirty years. Before I embark upon my “Topic Du Jour”, for the benefit of the trainspotter-type fraternity amongst our [...]

June 14, 2021 // 0 Comments

Back in the groove again (possibly)

From time to time I take to the Rust in order to report from my perspective as a near-septuagenarian seeking to stave off the ravages of time by maintaining a certain degree of physical fitness. This quest is a sometimes unequal contest between committing to and enjoying the undoubted benefits of [...]

May 26, 2021 // 0 Comments

Well whaddya know?

Over the last year or so there has been plenty of coverage in the media about the issue of virus-deniers and/or vaccination sceptics and their impact upon the worldwide efforts of Governments and scientists to counter, restrict and then control the advance of the Covid-19 virus pandemic, including [...]

May 21, 2021 // 0 Comments

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