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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

Power and democracy

Observing developments in the forthcoming US Presidential Election on top of those in Britain since 2015 (the Coalition Government, the 2015 General Election and now the EU Referendum) there certainly seems to be something in the theory that there is a growing ‘disconnect’ between ordinary [...]

June 7, 2016 // 0 Comments

Dealing with the media

Something that has always fascinated me is the relationship between people – of whatever status, be they ordinary members of the public, celebrities, agents, PR spokesmen, CEOs and/or chairman of public bodies or business organisations or (wash my mouth out) even politicians – and the media [...]

May 23, 2016 // 0 Comments

The times we live in

From time to time the Rust recommends to its readers an article or two that we have spotted somewhere in the media which seems worthy of being brought to our readers’ attention, just in case they have not come across it for themselves. Today we have no hesitation in placing this [...]

April 10, 2016 // 0 Comments

A salute of sorts to a newspaper of sorts

The abandonment of its print edition by The Independent newspaper – to a wholly digital future – is imminent. When it was first published in 1986 under Andreas Whittam Smith I was still idealistic and young enough to welcome it with open arms, pleased to encourage a brand new [...]

March 26, 2016 // 0 Comments

Worth another airing

Rust readers may like to file this one under the heading Iconic Moments From The Past – or just sit back, relax and briefly enjoy the simple 90-second footage and perhaps other personal memories that it brings to mind – but the story behind ‘The Gorilla Playing The Drums’ [...]

January 7, 2016 // 0 Comments

An excellent piece of television

This is not a regular habit of mine I promise, but earlier this morning – having read the broadsheet reviews of Tuesday night’s television programming in which it seemingly received 4 stars out of 5 all round – I deliberately took up my zapper and negotiated through my cable company’s [...]

December 23, 2015 // 0 Comments

Peake of achievement

Yesterday, almost by chance, I watched the take-off of the Russian spacecraft from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan that took with it the European Space agency British astronaut Major Tim Peake to a rendezvous with the International Space Station. I had been out shopping and, upon returning, [...]

December 16, 2015 // 0 Comments

Chocks away, chaps … !

On this rather important day for the Government, the Labour Party and indeed the nation here’s a link to a withering piece from Defence specialist Patrick Cockburn that appears today on the website of  – THE [...]

December 2, 2015 // 0 Comments

Reaction to Paris

I’m not in the business of discussing the various short and long-term implications of the terrorist attacks in Paris last Friday (13th November) because they’re evolving as new developments in the investigation as to what happened and why occur every day – maybe I should say ‘every few [...]

November 16, 2015 // 0 Comments

What you allow is what you get

Right now, thanks to yesterday’s media explosion following the publication of the report by the Independent Commission appointed by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) into systematic doping in the sport of athletics, there is no shortage of data, analysis and expert comment available for the [...]

November 10, 2015 // 0 Comments

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