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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

Round and round we go

Everyone I know with a pulse, never mind an ounce of common sense or an ability to think, recognises the pact with the Devil that we all make when it comes to what is proudly referred to by its supporters as “the Fourth Estate” – i.e. the press or media. We’re in the realms of the trade-off [...]

April 15, 2020 // 0 Comments

A recommended read or two from the Editor

What a splendid thing is the internet – keeping us all in touch with each other as the Coronavirus pandemic continues its progress around the world! Although out here, bobbing around in the ocean on our mooring off the coast of Tenerife, you’d think we’d find our existence somewhat removed [...]

April 4, 2020 // 0 Comments

A little bit of honesty wouldn’t go amiss

US President Donald Trump – a special and indeed unique case in the history of Man – aside, yesterday the UK Government stood out yesterday by continuing its ludicrous late afternoon “Number 10 press conferences” seeking to give the impression that from the outset it had been in charge, and [...]

April 2, 2020 // 0 Comments

It’s going to get worse … before it gets more worse

It occurred to me yesterday that you can get up to some pretty weird things trying to occupy yourself during these lock-down days. It’s all relative, of course. Here in The Rust’s editorial command centre on the second level deck of the publisher’s superyacht moored two miles off the coast of [...]

March 29, 2020 // 0 Comments

Stuff keeps happening

As part of an assistance drive for Rusters, we occasionally provide a linking service to media stories that have caught the eye. Here are some from the UK  newspapers today: POLITICS Firstly, the latest piece by Tom Peck which appears today upon the website of – THE INDEPENDENT Next, that [...]

March 26, 2020 // 0 Comments

Back to the future!

Now that we have metaphorically “sent the Sports department home”, the Rust can continue the development of our campaign to take regular readers into the future by providing comprehensive coverage of the world of E-Sport – let it never be said again that this organ is behind the [...]

March 23, 2020 // 0 Comments

Let’s get serious about where all this is going!

With some trepidation because I am steeping into dark waters today – if Tom H. and his crew on the Rust’s sports team will permit me –  but I’ve suddenly come to realisation that I’m sure will also have occurred to some of our astute readers about the position to which elite sport [...]

March 22, 2020 // 0 Comments

Some things keep changing – and some don’t

It is of these things that in the world of entertainment some of the standard rules of business apply and some don’t. In one sense it’s an obvious point to make – and no doubt most sectors (e.g. fishing, fashion, flying and … er porn) would probably claim similar – but few have been more [...]

March 8, 2020 // 0 Comments

On the other hand – and indeed side of the Pond …

I’m bound to say that if we in the UK have had some weird political times since the 2016 EU Referendum, they’re nothing compared to what the United States of America has been going through since Donald Trump was elected President. “As any fule no” – to quote the legendary Nigel [...]

February 6, 2020 // 0 Comments

And now for something completely different

Over the years the future course of the BBC and all that goes with it has snuck up on the inside rail, some might think somewhat against the odds, to become one of our regular “hot topics”. Rusters will have noticed that it has recently been shooting up the priority list of London-centric [...]

January 25, 2020 // 0 Comments

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