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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

Je suis Charlie mais non Ched Evans

I sent an email of sympathy to a French friend of mine who replied that they died as heroes, pen in hands, not a slow death in hospital. Understandably the country has been transformed by a wave of emotion. One country so far omitted from the debate is Israel. When Israel is attacked, as it has [...]

January 9, 2015 // 0 Comments

Forgotten but not quite

Former Lib-Dem leader Jeremy Thorpe died yesterday aged 84 after a long battle with Parkinson’s Disease. [Actually – hold that statement for a moment. I saw a comment by a lady in the media, somewhere within the past week, that she resented people’s experience of living with cancer being [...]

December 5, 2014 // 0 Comments

A complex subject with no easy answers

I am prompted to write today by  a piece I spotted in the media on the difficult subject of rape – I use the word ‘difficult’ deliberately because, for me, there are fundamentally worthy but conflicting issues involved on both sides. All campaigners against rape tends to cite the facts [...]

December 2, 2014 // 0 Comments

Fiona Woolf

Some 25 years ago I had a gig in international promotion for the Law Society’s international committee chaired by Fiona Woolf. We became friends and used to have what I like to call a power breakfast at the Connaught. She struck me as forceful but with a certain engaging vivacity. I was not [...]

November 1, 2014 // 0 Comments

Details count (sometimes)

Getting up at my usual unearthly hour today, I was mildly amused by Radio Five Live’s coverage of the Ofcom and BBC Trust rebuke for the amount of swearing let loose on air during the coverage of the BBC Big Weekend Event – see here for a report on the website of THE GUARDIAN In about 1980, [...]

October 21, 2014 // 0 Comments

Getting down to it

Scotland has had its referendum and decided to remain within the United Kingdom. The wider implications are enormous, as indeed they would also have been if Scotland had voted “Yes”. The potential fall-out the UK now faces highlights both the strengths and weaknesses of democracy. The losing [...]

September 21, 2014 // 0 Comments

Going down to the (barbed) wire

In the context of there being now effectively just three campaigning days left in the referendum on Scottish independence, the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show and The Politics Show yesterday provided me with my latest first-hand ‘fix’ of what’s happening. [The trouble with newspapers these days is [...]

September 15, 2014 // 0 Comments

Plain-speaking that seemed to add up

Shortly after I awoke and rose from my bed in the wee hours this morning, I caught the tail-end of a Radio Five Live interview conducted by guest Up All Night presenter Lucy Grey with Michael Schwayer [query the spelling, I just noted it down as I heard it], a Professor from Georgetown [...]

August 22, 2014 // 0 Comments

You read it here first

As a leading British media organ, the National Rust has made a virtue of being a leader in world opinion, progressive thinking and initiatives in the cause of improving public health, tolerance and understanding of this island’s heritage and culture. It is therefore no surprise that, once again, [...]

August 6, 2014 // 0 Comments

Book it, Dano!

With apologies for not deferring to the legend that is our film editor Neil Rosen, I am such a devotee of artistic disasters that I could not help bringing the new British film Pudsey The Dog: The Movie to the attention of National Rust readers. Based upon this review by Peter Bradshaw, it surely [...]

July 18, 2014 // 0 Comments

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