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About Miles Piper

After university, Miles Piper began his career on a local newspaper in Wolverhampton and has since worked for a number of national newspapers and magazines. He has also worked as a guest presenter on Classic FM. He was a founder-member of the National Rust board. More Posts

Music and Time

Yesterday’s review by Michael Stuart of the Rod Stewart concert at the Hove cricket ground – an excellent piece on the enduring quality and appeal of one of rock music’s greatest vocal performers – brought to mind a slew of thoughts about the complex issues that sometimes [...]

July 14, 2019 // 0 Comments

Take a look at this one

As Rusters  and indeed “any fule no” [(c) Nigel Molesworth circa 1955], on this organ we do lists. I need say no more. Here’s another one worth considering, courtesy of a feature spotted overnight on the website of – THE [...]

July 7, 2019 // 0 Comments

Overnight plucking

Here come further contributions to our continuing series of “items of potential interest to Rusters spotted on the internet”. Few things make me laugh more than a classic malapropism and/or inadvertent mix-up of words. My own grandmother was capable of both, sometimes in the same [...]

June 18, 2019 // 0 Comments

Mine’s a half!

These are strange times indeed, with the summer’s highly-anticipated international cricket season now fast approaching and four English clubs contesting European football’s elite championship cups, albeit in distant parts. Meanwhile, nearer home UK politics remains trapped in a Brexit [...]

May 14, 2019 // 0 Comments

In the news today

As they say with buses, so it is with our continuous perusal of the UK’s national newspapers on behalf of Rusters around the globe in search of stories of interest. Occasionally – after a seemingly eternal wait, several come along in a bunch. So it has happened today. Here are a [...]

May 2, 2019 // 0 Comments

EDITORIAL – The exciting times we live in

It is incontestable that the average punter on the proverbial Clapham omnibus could be forgiven for thinking that the world has lost both its marbles and bearings and has taken a one-way ticket to Hell in a handcart. These days you can go to bed day-dreaming up the whackiest and most unlikely [...]

April 20, 2019 // 0 Comments

What’s it all about, Alfie?

The current sporting cause célèbre of Aussie rugby player Israel Folau’s anti-gay public statements is fascinating and one that tends to invite the average punter like myself to mine at the rich seam of phrases tending towards cliché such as ‘a game of two halves’, ‘seeing both sides of [...]

April 12, 2019 // 0 Comments

A Brexit contribution

Purely out of a (perhaps erroneous) impression that amidst all the Brexit confusion Rusters might appreciate having the opportunity to have a degree of levity introduced to proceedings, I am providing a link to the latest piece on the subject penned by Tom Peck – currently my favourite [...]

April 6, 2019 // 0 Comments

At last! Getting to the bottom of it …

In these wonderfully entertaining times – dare I mention Brexit, ‘Fake News’ and the influence of the ‘unregulated’ internet upon which anyone of impressionable mind can find cod-evidence supportive of the most crackpot of ideas and theories, let alone dangerous and/or [...]

April 2, 2019 // 0 Comments

A breakthrough? Perhaps …

Today another feather in the Rust‘s cap – and indeed that of Tom Hollingworth, our sports editor – for the uncompromising campaign we have been running to promote the virtues of transparency, honesty and integrity in world sport. Sometimes the best and most principled attitudes to [...]

March 21, 2019 // 0 Comments

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