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About Simon Campion-Brown

A former lecturer in politics at Keele University, Simon now lives in Oxfordshire. Married with two children, in 2007 he decided to monitor the Westminster village via newspaper and television and has never looked back. More Posts

The art of muddling through

Today I wish to begin with four famous quotations. Whilst we are all aware of Lord Acton’s famous statement ‘Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely’ we sometimes forget that it continued ‘Great men are almost always bad men’’. The American journalist and social [...]

November 15, 2016 // 0 Comments

That’s the first I heard of it

This Brexit constitutional crisis continues to dominate the headlines. Yesterday, surrounded by the Sunday newspapers, as is my habit I sat watching the BBC1’s Andrew Marr Show and later Sunday Politics (hosted by Jo Coburn because Andrew Neil is away in the Unites States covering the General [...]

November 7, 2016 // 0 Comments

There’s always one

I always enjoy reading a good, strong, biased rant and here’s a classic I came across today – from The Independent‘s (is it?) Middle East correspondent Robert Fisk who in my book practically operates as an anti-Western ‘First Nation’ – pro-Palestinian, [...]

November 4, 2016 // 0 Comments

Trying to make sense of it all

Sitting locked away in my bunker, surveying a world that seems simultaneously to have discarded judgement and reason and thereby become become appreciably more dangerous, I wondered whether Rust readers might benefit from being recommended this link to an article by John Harris, as appears today on [...]

October 28, 2016 // 0 Comments

The world’s gone mad (again)

It is not often that I am up at the time on a Thursday (10.35pm or thereabouts) for the BBC1 Question Time programme chaired by David Dimbleby, as I was last night. The first two topics discussed were those of the US Presidential debate and, of course with Mrs May at her first EU summit, Brexit. [...]

October 20, 2016 // 0 Comments

A matter of expediency

Some might think in prospect that it is a jump too far somehow manage to compose a blog post linking the EU Referendum result to the recent involuntary (I’m not discussing here Will Young’s decision to walk away from the show) three celebrity ‘votings-off’ the BBC’s weekend ratings [...]

October 18, 2016 // 0 Comments

Brexit confusion

Yesterday I watched the Six O’Clock News on BBC1 on which the opening story was the developing row at Prime Minister’s Question Time and elsewhere over whether Parliament should be allowed to scrutinise the Government’s strategy and/or ‘opening position’ on its Brexit negotiations  or [...]

October 13, 2016 // 0 Comments

It entirely depends where you’re coming from

As I type I’m sitting at my computer in the small hours with the BBC television coverage of first of the live US presidential debates playing in the background and finding it fascinating. Sometimes my pals and others complain that my views (anti-views?) are extreme, facile or just too cynical for [...]

September 27, 2016 // 0 Comments

It does make me smile

Regular Rust readers will know that I exercised my most fundamental democratic right (some might say duty) for the first time in my life on 23rd June 2016 when I recorded my vote in favour of Brexit in the UK’s EU Referendum. To this day I remain defiant in the face of constant criticism from [...]

September 8, 2016 // 0 Comments

Par for the course

Rust regulars will scarcely need reminding that I bow to nobody in my cynical contempt for the British Establishment and its political classes. They’re all too prepared to lecture the British public from their pompous Mount Olympus all-expenses-paid dining table about how theirs is the highest [...]

August 1, 2016 // 0 Comments

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