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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

The influence of testosterone upon sporting performance

As regular readers will be aware – and to the frustration of some including our marketing department – one of the features of the Rust is its deliberate lack of a particular political or other stance on any subject including the pursuit of popularity or commercial success. It is what it is [...]

October 16, 2019 // 0 Comments

The state of the world

Following the political developments upon both sides of the Pond in the media over the past week it has occurred to me that the world has progressed well beyond the dismissive clichéd truism “You couldn’t make it up”. A combination of ‘Fake News’, the hysterical and embarrassing [...]

September 28, 2019 // 0 Comments

Droning on

It was inevitable, if you think about it. The moment that video-gaming and the world of super-technology came together and took the concept of recreational flying toy aircraft – a refuge of anoraks the world over for the best part of 75 years – beyond all norms and to the logical [...]

September 17, 2019 // 0 Comments

Remind you of anyone?

When times get tough and every news bulletin seems to bring details of new chaotic developments to your living room that out-do those of the day before, the average UK citizen could be forgiven for thinking that the world has gone plumb loco. Boris Johnson became Prime Minister on 24th July – not [...]

September 12, 2019 // 0 Comments

Review: first day of a momentous week?

Yesterday – for my sins, out of curiosity given the alleged momentousness of this week and possibly also for the benefit of fellow Rusters who couldn’t be bothered to follow by-the-minute-developments – I decided to spent much of my time ‘monitoring’ the political manoeuvrings at [...]

September 3, 2019 // 0 Comments

Upon the eve of something

Bland and obvious though it is to type, every one of us is a product of the era in which we live plus a blend (perhaps in varying proportions) of our culture, ancestry, actions, decisions and indeed the social circles in which we move. As collectively, for good or ill, we stand on our cliff edge [...]

September 1, 2019 // 0 Comments

Adding to our ongoing series

Spotted on the website of The Independent: From Jonathan Liew, Cricket – THE THIRTY GREATEST CRICKET TEST INNINGS From Graeme Ross, Movies – THE TWENTY GREATEST BRITISH FILMS [...]

August 31, 2019 // 0 Comments

We get what we deserve (usually)

A puzzling and sometimes amusing feature of modern life are those occasions in which polling research into people’s views and attitudes appears to produce results which on the face of it are unexpected, counter-intuitive or odd. Or, alternatively, perhaps even perfectly normal for that matter. It [...]

August 14, 2019 // 0 Comments

Latest on the history frontier

Under the Rust’s service of bringing world developments to those of its readers who may be too busy, distracted or ga-ga to come across them under their own steam, today we offer the following:-   THE MOON For those of us who were pleased and indeed perhaps nostalgic to be reminded recently [...]

July 31, 2019 // 0 Comments

Disney ditties

Adding to another of our regular themes, here’s another list to add to our … er … list. Spotted today upon the website of – THE [...]

July 19, 2019 // 0 Comments

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