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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

Has the age of the female super hero arrived?

In common with some other Rust staffers, I’m sufficiently dinosaur in my attitudes to the world that as a matter of principle I regard ‘positive action’, e.g. the concept of women-only political party shortlists and the BBC’s insistence upon awarding semi-equal coverage to [...]

June 1, 2017 // 0 Comments

Reaction blues

Rape is a ghastly, sickening crime and one that many surveys and studies testify may be wildly under-reported not just in the UK but around the world. However, the recent acquittal of (now) Chesterfield professional footballer Ched Evans in his re-trial continues to produce a great deal of [...]

October 16, 2016 // 0 Comments

Pushing a boulder up a hill

It’s well-known that two signals of old age are firstly, an entrenched belief that things were better ‘back in the day’ [what a horrible phrase!] and secondly, a tendency to repeat one’s own stories. Thus I begin my post today hoping, probably in vain, that in addressing today’s chosen [...]

September 15, 2016 // 0 Comments

Aspects of ageing

We all know the harsher facts of 21st Century life. Perhaps save for in some distant, Third World, geographically-or-climate-change-challenged countries, continents and regions, the civilised human world faces an innumerable series of societal issues of which ongoing medical advances and healthy [...]

August 30, 2016 // 0 Comments

UFC is a whole new ball game

Last night, having got up in the wee hours to go upon my computer and organised to have the BBC’s television coverage of the Olympics on in the background, I happened to notice a report upon one of the newspaper websites that they would be providing live updates upon the grudge rematch UFC (mixed [...]

August 22, 2016 // 0 Comments

Chilcot digested

In my judgement Andrew Rawnsley belongs to a small and distinguished group of British political commentators whose views and articles are always worth an airing and invariably seem to add light (and shade), as well as common sense, to the sum of human understanding. Here’s a link to his [...]

July 10, 2016 // 0 Comments

Curious and curiouser

Sometimes you come across something in the world that stops you in your tracks and makes you wonder. I experienced an example this morning when perusing the website of The Guardian newspaper. In principle we’re all in favour of the freedom – and indeed the diversity – of the [...]

July 1, 2016 // 0 Comments

Not waving but drowning (again)

One of the issues for columnists upon an organ like the Rust is that when current affairs are as fluid, fast-moving and extraordinary as the aftermath of the Brexit vote in the UK’s EU Referendum campaign there’s not a lot of light that we can shed. Or at least, that we can shed that won’t be [...]

June 29, 2016 // 0 Comments

What comes around

We are shortly approaching the fortieth anniversary (on 4th July) of one of the moments in history that seems to have gained iconic status amongst Rusters. Operation Entebbe, or Operation Thunderbolt to mention its military version – or indeed Raid On Entebbe, to name the 1977 television film [...]

June 26, 2016 // 0 Comments

What’s going on? (as Marvin Gaye once sang)

The awful, tragic, events of yesterday in Birstall, West Yorkshire – when Labour MP for Batley and Spen Jo Cox was killed by a constituent in the street – quite rightly caused all other matters of state and nation to be pushed aside from public attention. Times and incidents like this, such the [...]

June 17, 2016 // 0 Comments

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