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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

Back to the future, maybe

This organ used to pride itself on its unique and contrary, slightly left-field ‘oldie’ takes on aspects of modern living. Indeed this was the central theme our board’s USP when pitching for the US$1.6 billion funding injection in the fall of 2016 that took us into exclusive league of [...]

January 22, 2020 // 0 Comments

It’s that time of year again

Overnight the New Year’s Honours List was published and – as usual – has been greeted with a mix of celebration and raised eyebrows at some of those receiving gongs and titles, and indeed what for. See here for a link to the review of this year’s List penned by Adam Forrest [...]

December 28, 2019 // 0 Comments

Election aftermath

Here’s a brief but damning opinion piece posted today by Simon Jenkins on the website of – THE [...]

December 17, 2019 // 0 Comments

Okay – that’s quite enough!

Given that we have reached the point in the General Election campaign where (according to the latest poll I have seen) the Tories’ lead over Labour has been cut to nine percentage points and there are still nine days to go – and therefore absolutely any outcome is theoretically possible – [...]

December 3, 2019 // 0 Comments

Get your hard hats at the ready …

Rusters might not have noticed but the UK’s General Election process is now cranking into gear with just over a month ago. While the rest of us – the flood-suffering residents of Fishlake included – are just trying to get on with our lives having now collectively reached the terminal stage of [...]

November 15, 2019 // 0 Comments

Japanese disaster – viewed from the sofa

So that’s it, then. Another World Cup – rugby’s this time – and “our boys” fall at the Final hurdle again. Global supremacy and immortality oh so near and yet also so far. But that’s how it should be, isn’t it? Wonder, vindication, elation and glory for one finalist – [...]

November 3, 2019 // 0 Comments

With just 24 hours and counting to go …

Having yesterday seen some of the early rushes from the Channel Four documentary being made about our intrepid Rusters’ Tour de Japan I am confident that the British public will be in for a veritable treat – not to mention a suitably entertaining antidote to whatever the result of the General [...]

November 1, 2019 // 0 Comments

I think I’m turning Japanese … [Not?]*

(Note: * above is a reference to the worldwide single hit Turning Japanese by The Vapors, taken off their 1980 album New Clear Days). Despite our Rust delegation out in Japan continuing to set new standards of reporting excellence, overnight I spotted a piece in the British media suggesting that [...]

October 30, 2019 // 0 Comments

One game at a time, of course …

As this morning it builds towards the next turn of the screw – its second semi-final between South Africa and Wales this morning – this momentous 2019 Rugby World Cup in Japan with its infectious, joyous, festival atmosphere is proceeding towards its climax a week hence accompanied by a growing [...]

October 27, 2019 // 0 Comments

A sensible precaution?

The only thing stopping me instigating a Rust poll or survey –  simply to find out the various ways that our UK readers’ have devised for themselves in order to cope with the never-ending Brexit crisis – is the prospect that it would only add to the general pain. There’s a general [...]

October 22, 2019 // 0 Comments

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