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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

A sporting nomination

‘Each to their own’ and how ‘long is a piece of string?’ are two phrases that immediately come to mind when addressing the complex issue of which sport lends itself best to television coverage, not least because – well, apart from those who would bet on which of two flies was going to [...]

July 22, 2018 // 0 Comments

Recommended pieces spotted in today’s media

Here’s a list of items on today’s media pages that might be of interest to Rust readers: Here’s an interesting take on probably the biggest internet/politics scandal to break so far this year. Julia Carrie Wong – writing from San Francisco – on the issues arising from [...]

March 20, 2018 // 0 Comments

It’s that time of year again

As Yuletide beckons – chaotic last minute shopping, endless gridlocks on Britain’s motorways, television screens full of total rubbish except, of course, for Channel Four which seems to be showing a series of classic Carry On films during the daytime (yesterday they showed Carry On [...]

December 23, 2017 // 0 Comments

Up yours, you son of a gun! (geddit?)

[I’m rather proud of my headline today – for the slow off the mark, it’s a clever (I think) oblique reference to the rapid-firing Gatling gun – a forerunner of the machine gun – patented by US inventor Richard Gatling on 4th November 1862.] William Boyd as Hopalong [...]

December 19, 2017 // 0 Comments

The art of keeping up

Regular readers will be aware that from time to time the Rust has taken to featuring pieces on long-running issues, arguments or campaigns in which it is interested, many of them concerned with the world of sport. My opinion piece today is another. It is a fact of life that – in common with every [...]

October 24, 2017 // 0 Comments

Indexes

On the Rust we occasionally like to feature lists we’ve come across that might interest our readers. Here’s one I spotted today on the website of – THE INDEPENDENT More soon, I expect [...]

October 23, 2017 // 0 Comments

New television series to be launched

I wish to make it plain from the outset of this piece that I personally have not seen a single trailer or even episode of Love Island, the current ‘cause célèbre’ of the reality TV genre – I didn’t even know which channel it was broadcast upon until I googled the answer just now (it was [...]

July 25, 2017 // 0 Comments

What it takes

Whenever I read a magazine or newspaper article, or watch a documentary programme, which profiles anyone at the top of a business, professional or a vocation, I am always intrigued to discover exactly what appears to make the subject tick. (And okay, back in the day this curiosity used to spring [...]

July 7, 2017 // 0 Comments

How we got to here

There is a certain irony – and perhaps sympathy to be extended – whenever the ‘house-of-cards’ edifice of someone’s life collapses, all the more so when this happens in an unforgiving front-of-stage spotlight of public gaze and media comment. As I beheld the weekend’s newspaper and [...]

June 12, 2017 // 0 Comments

The knock on the door

Several centuries ago now (in the 1970s) – I cannot even recall which time of year it was but it was during a student vacation of some kind – a pal and I, editors of our respective student magazines, pitched up at a convention in Salford on the general topic of student publications, [...]

June 8, 2017 // 0 Comments

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