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Experience teaches you something but I don’t know what it is

It is a supposed burden of having been Winston Churchill – an eminently quotable gentleman – that there exists an entire sub-Churchillian industry in which ‘catchy’ things he didn’t ever actually say are ascribed to his authorship and/or improvisation and thus gain widespread currency on [...]

August 9, 2018 // 0 Comments

It’s all somebody’s Fake News, if you think about it

I suspect like many others I’ve lived the bulk of my life in a warm bubble of perception in which – broadly speaking, despite growing evidence to the contrary as from the late 19th Century onwards as Britain slid from a Grade A imperial power into something a little more mundane – at least [...]

July 26, 2018 // 0 Comments

The march of sporting equality

If today I begin today’s post by issuing a denial that the Rust is one of the last bastions of bigoted misogyny, terminally opposed to the advancement of equality and/or feminism and political-correctness in any form, then no doubt the social media trollers will once again assault us with a [...]

July 18, 2018 // 0 Comments

Stop the world, I want to get off (again)

This PC madness continues! The media is currently awash with reports of the decision of Scarlett Johansson to withdraw from a new movie called Rub and Tug in which she had been cast as a transgender character, this after protests from right-on campaigners that it should only be played by someone [...]

July 14, 2018 // 0 Comments

Pile in here before it’s too late!

The publishers of Nat Rust Global Corporation are pleased to announce the launch of the world’s latest and fastest-growing cryptocurrency RustCoin. In keeping with our long-held principle of looking after our followers and adherents we are offering a special introductory rate to Rust readers. If [...]

January 25, 2018 // 0 Comments

Two of a kind

Towards the end of last week, based solely upon its reviews in the Arts sections of the newspapers, I bought a copy of Walter Isaacson’s new book Leonardo Da Vinci – The Biography (525 pages not counting Cited Sources, Notes to Chapters, Illustration Credits, Index and About The Author, [...]

November 7, 2017 // 0 Comments

A modern conumdrum

Amidst the madness that seems to have engulfed the world recently – whether you’re talking the 2017 UK General Election result, Brexit, the 2016 US Presidential campaign, the current confrontation between President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un or indeed the weekend’s events in [...]

August 14, 2017 // 0 Comments

Never heard of him – but worth a peak …

Yesterday, confined to quarters miles from anywhere in the countryside, I received a cryptic text from an old school pal: “You must immediately read this article!” it read, followed by (an unusual achievement in his case) a properly-captured and applied ‘link’ to a piece by [...]

July 23, 2017 // 0 Comments

Getting to the nub of it

No doubt like many Rusters I have been enjoying my periodic dips into the BBC’s consistently excellent radio and television coverage of Wimbledon 2017. Call me old-fashioned, or Neanderthal – or even cod-nostalgic for the days of the British Empire that stretched across the quarter of the [...]

July 13, 2017 // 0 Comments

One that just keeps going

These days I am no longer a habitual listener to radio but that doesn’t prevent me having fond nostalgic memories of The Goons, Radio Luxembourg, Two Way Family Favourites, Radio One’s (Alan Freeman) pop chart show, Round The Horne and I’m Sorry, I’ll Read That Again from my [...]

December 29, 2016 // 0 Comments

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