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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

Some things are always there

Operation Yewtree … the Butler-Sloss inquiry withdrawal … this week’s reported sudden arrest of 660 suspected paedophiles, only 39 of which were previously on the sex offenders register. Britain’s safe, secure, idealistic, fantasy world of the Daily Mail and ‘Middle England’ has been [...]

July 17, 2014 // 0 Comments

I’d rather play Philadelphia

About fifteen years ago, I used to play golf regularly with a chap that I knew was interested in the arts – he and his wife were frequent visits to art galleries, the opera and (I thought) the theatre. One day I mentioned that I was shortly to make a rare excursion into the West End to see a [...]

June 20, 2014 // 0 Comments

No easy solution

Earlier this week, in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, the home minister responsible for law and order – one Babulal Gaur – publicly uttered his horrific opinion that the crime of rape is only committed if it is reported to the police: “This is a social crime which depends on men and [...]

June 6, 2014 // 0 Comments

Let’s face it – making a hash of things is easy

There are strange parallels between the issues surrounding September’s referendum on independence and David Cameron’s supposed pledge that, if he is still Prime Minister, he will oversee an ‘In – Out’ referendum in 2017 on whether Britain should remain a member of the EU. If you allow for [...]

May 16, 2014 // 0 Comments

A worthy read

I would like to commend to all National Rust readers this article by Marina Hyde upon the sexual/social climate within Parliament, as published today on the website of THE [...]

April 12, 2014 // 0 Comments

Peter Oakley: a senior citizen who made his mark

Today the National Rust editorial team raises a salute to Peter Oakley, an 86 year-old pensioner, who died recently and whose obituary appears on the website of the Daily Telegraph. Mr Oakley’s primary claim to fame is that, demonstrating the lasting resourcefulness of senior citizens in this [...]

March 26, 2014 // 0 Comments

Like an old friend whose brilliance never fades

Several weeks ago now, Channel Four broadcast the Mel Brooks’ classic 1968 movie The Producers, featuring Zero Mostel as Max Byalistock and Gene Wilder as Leo Bloom. The same year, Brooks received an Academy Award for ‘Best Writing, Story and Screenplay – Written Directly for the Screen’ [...]

March 11, 2014 // 0 Comments

The EU dilemma

In terms of assessing the evidence and expert opinion, I am neither intelligent or nor perceptive enough to know whether – in practice – Britain would be better off in or out of the EU. They say that, as a rough guide, there as many different economic theories in the world as there are [...]

February 4, 2014 // 0 Comments

Goodbye and good riddance?

As the USA and Britain military forces prepare to make their ignominious withdrawals from Afghanistan, there is much speculation as to what legacy – if any – they will leave behind. There is also a lot of spin and froth from politicians and military commanders of both countries, naked [...]

January 12, 2014 // 0 Comments

Rick Wakeman – still an outstanding musician and good bloke

Keyboard player Rick Wakeman occupies an enviable niche in the pantheon of British rock music. I’d hate to saddle him with ‘national treasure’ status but – despite his well-documented professional and personal excesses – he attracts a grudging respect even in those like me who [...]

January 9, 2014 // 0 Comments

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