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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

Reflections – Women’s Euros 2022, the Final

Yesterday, from approximately 4.20pm until its conclusion – joining millions of other Brits and television viewers all around the world – I watched the build-up and then the dramas of England’s epic 2-1 (after extra time) victory over Germany in the Final of the women’s Euros 2022 [...]

August 1, 2022 // 0 Comments

Chums/Simon Kuper

The central thesis of Simon Kuper’s book is that a tiny caste of Oxford graduates of the 1980s took over the running of the country and the origins of Brexit are to be identified there. The clear flaws in this theory are that Nigel Farage and the 52% that voted leave were not educated there. [...]

July 6, 2022 // 0 Comments

The way things are going …

Trawling the internet via the media websites overnight I came upon the following piece on the website of the Daily Mail – as Rusters will appreciate from experience, one of the few newspapers that still allow human beings to “link” their stories to pals and third parties – and considered it [...]

July 4, 2022 // 0 Comments

Finally, the world stops going mad

Although this organ’s mission statement and running themes are well known to its adherents – and we need make no apologies for them – I have been reassured to see that recently the world of sports administration seems, after much hang-wringing and procrastination, at last to have [...]

June 21, 2022 // 0 Comments

Fighting nature is sometimes futile

Given its general mission of providing observations upon modern life from the viewpoint of those of us who happen to be beyond the first flush of youth, it would be strange indeed if – amongst all the inevitable and wondrous advances that science, technology and cultural developments bring [...]

June 12, 2022 // 0 Comments

The place of sport in life

Some might argue that the belief held by some that world sports constitute little more than contests between power-hungry nations vying for global pride, supremacy, power, influence and control continued by means other than war has been somewhat undermined by events over the last 100 days in [...]

June 3, 2022 // 0 Comments

TV Review: new sit-com Ten Percent

Modern life as it is experienced by those of us beyond the first flush of youth is a many-sided jewel, involving as it does a combination of looking back upon one’s life and trying to recall incidents and anecdotes from one’s past; marvelling (or becoming baffled and frustrated by) supposed [...]

April 29, 2022 // 0 Comments

You couldn’t make this stuff up …

Picking up from where my colleague Arthur Nelson let off yesterday [Wokery – the curse of the 21st Century? (26th March 2022)], as I was touring the newspaper websites overnight I came across a number of stories and/or reports that reinforce the impression that we are living in some pretty [...]

March 27, 2022 // 0 Comments

Where diversity and reality meet …

Both contributors to this organ and its followers know that the Rust’s mission statement is built around its stance of providing a “window upon the world” from the point of view of those of us who have passed beyond “the first flush of youth” yet retain possess an independence of mind and [...]

March 15, 2022 // 0 Comments

Headline/Daily Star

Every so often a tabloid headline is right “on the money”. I recall Gotcha during the Falkland War and Up Yours Delors.    In the Daily Star this headline appeared. It made me laugh out loud. Of course the brothers Klitschko could not withstand a Russian tank, but reducing the conflict [...]

March 2, 2022 // 0 Comments

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