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England v West Indies 1991 (1st Test)

I watched highlights of this game last night hungry for any sort of cricket. There are those who say a replay is unsatisfying as you know the result. I do not agree. I enjoy seeing cricket as it was competed 30 years ago – the hairstyles, the billboards, the players you have forgotten and [...]

June 14, 2020 // 0 Comments

Das Boot

I was so pleased that the second series of this German broadcast was back on screen. It’s based on the 1981 film but the series oscillates between the U-boat and La Rochelle, the port where many U-boats were berthed. The original film did not feature La Rochelle but both series and the film gave [...]

June 11, 2020 // 0 Comments

The state of opinion forming (not informed opinion)

My contribution today comes from my perspective as a privileged, white, sixty-something male with no particular political axe to grind – which description in itself probably marks me as someone who has as many weaknesses (and lack of appreciation of the world’s problems) in terms of his genes, [...]

June 10, 2020 // 0 Comments

Keeping an eye on what’s happening

It’s a funny old world. During the gestation period of this organ, in our wildest imaginings not a man jack among the original editorial team had the slightest idea that in a few short years the Rust would become one of the world’s most popular go-to websites or achieve its current ever-growing [...]

June 3, 2020 // 0 Comments

COPENHAGEN/MICHAEL FRAYN/RADIO 3

I had reservations about listening to the broadcast last night on Radio 3 of Michael Frayn’s play Copenhagen for 3 reasons. Niels Bohr 1) It is based on the meeting in 1941 of two leading physicists Niels Bohr, a Jewish Dane, and Werner Eisenberg, a Jewish German who headed up the Nazi nuclear [...]

May 25, 2020 // 0 Comments

Another of Life’s little veils is stripped away

For all obvious reasons the global coronavirus crisis has not only given humanity a sharp jerk on the ‘training reins’ but provided time for reflection – and for some – a general re-think (if not quite yet ultimately a re-set) – of who we all are and what is really [...]

May 23, 2020 // 0 Comments

A chat across the road

As routines become entrenched I enjoy my daily chats with the gent who runs the independent high street supermarket shop from where I buy both my newspapers and odds and sods of food and drink. Yesterday when I popped over the road to collect my Sunday newspapers including The Sunday Times, he [...]

May 18, 2020 // 0 Comments

Peter Sellers

I have three none too proximate connections with Peter Sellers. My late father was once on a plane with Peter Sellers, a fellow passenger going to the South of France, when he experienced cardiac problems. My father did his best to tend to him but he was  none too impressed by celebrities as [...]

May 11, 2020 // 0 Comments

Fauda (chaos)

This is a Netflix production featuring an operative unit of Israelis who conduct hit operations in Gaza. It’s obviously a hit as in its third series.  Series like The Spiral in its 7th series show that team movies are popular. These have been the subject of successful films like The Magnificent [...]

May 8, 2020 // 0 Comments

Private Passions/Radio 3: Hannah Rankin

As previously noted here, if you seek the formula of interview coupled with musical choice Private Passions, not Desert Island Discs is for you. Yesterday the subject was Hannah Rankin who combines two unusual accomplishments: she is the IBF Super Welterweight  boxing champion and a concert [...]

May 4, 2020 // 0 Comments

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