Articles by Simon Campion-Brown

The dictionary definition of ‘purdah’ suggests that it is a practice of certain Muslim and Hindu societies whereby women are screened from men or strangers, especially by means of a curtain. As regards the UK political system, as I understand it, the word has come to be applied to an agreed (or [...]

Regular readers will have correctly fingered me as a supporter of Brexit on the forthcoming EU Referendum. I have reached this position not from a careful forensic analysis of the economic, political, security and innumerable other issues that we voters are being told we should be considering. Nor [...]

As the EU Referendum Day draws ever nearer, both sides are filling the media with a snowstorm of claims and counter-claims. Within the past fortnight we have had US President Obama joining in on the Remain side by urging the UK to stay in; Michael Gove (Brexit) claiming that staying in the EU will [...]

Today I must begin my piece with a disclaimer. As regular Rust readers will know – and therefore accordingly discount my views by whatever percentage they choose – on the matter of the EU Referendum I am an avowed Brexiter largely because I wish to rid the UK of Scotland. That said, I am doing [...]