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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 welcome advance

At the Rust we like to give credit where credit is due. For years the website of The Independent has been the poor relation among those of the UK’s broadsheet newspapers, looking far more of back bedroom amateur effort than the product of a major media organ. Today it seems things have [...]

September 24, 2015 // 0 Comments

A sad day for sport and justice

My reaction yesterday to the news that long distance runner Paula Radcliffe had issued a four-page statement acknowledging that she had been the ‘household name’ British athlete mentioned in the series of exposures begin last month by The Sunday Times (in conjunction with the German broadcaster [...]

September 9, 2015 // 0 Comments

Doesn’t getting it right matter?

Pardoning me for mentioning this, but isn’t it about time – now that we seem to have the video and other technology to check sporting action with a chilling degree of accuracy – that, if by chance a referee or other official in charge of proceedings on the field of play makes a [...]

August 18, 2015 // 0 Comments

A storm in a tea-cup

During the BBC’s television coverage of the 2015 Open – by the way in my view a terrific tournament, one of the best in years – veteran commentator Peter Alliss supposedly made two sexist and/or politically incorrect on-air gaffes which (I am reliable informed) resulted in a social media [...]

July 23, 2015 // 0 Comments

Beware Greeks (or anyone) bearing gifts

The United Kingdom’s relationship with the EU has been a running sore for far longer than I can remember – I’m a bit hazy about anything further back than 2004, so let’s say about forty years. Most of our electorate have an in-built suspicion about anything that involves unelected [...]

June 23, 2015 // 0 Comments

The art of cutting back

Running a national economy is no simple matter – I couldn’t do it. The 2010-2015 Coalition and new Tory governments have made great mileage out of ‘getting our finances in order’ (specifically trying to balance the books by a combination of reducing spending and encouraging economic growth) [...]

June 2, 2015 // 0 Comments

Keeping ahead of the game

I believe it was Churchill who once said “If you’re not a liberal when you’re twenty you have no heart, if you’re not a conservative at forty you have no brain”, but one of the genuinely worrying aspects of growing older is the constant need to avoid disconnecting from the modern world [...]

April 1, 2015 // 0 Comments

Uncertain outcome?

No apologies for lazy journalism at the Rust today. Andrew Rawnsley is a political commentator who is always worth reading and today he has an excellent piece on the likely outcome of the General Election featuring in – see here – THE [...]

March 15, 2015 // 0 Comments

Admitting what you’re thinking

A confession. Yesterday I was watching the television reports of the three schoolgirls from Bethnal Green Academy in Tower Hamlets – apparently their headmaster says that there is no evidence they were radicalised by anything related to his establishment, meanwhile some pundits are attacking [...]

February 24, 2015 // 0 Comments

Another fine mess

In keeping with our tradition of bringing excellent media articles to the attention of National Rust readers, here is one from today’s website of The Guardian, by columnist Simon Jenkins on the latest in the delayed publication of the Chilcot Inquiry – THE [...]

January 22, 2015 // 0 Comments

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