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When “equality for all” hits the iceberg

It may be fundamentally inappropriate and/or facile to discuss the Covid-19 pandemic in quasi-wartime terms so I apologise in advance to any Ruster who may be offended by me doing so today. However, it seems to me that with the benefit of hindsight – amidst the snowstorm of incoming competing [...]

February 12, 2021 // 0 Comments

Sport and drugs – a slight and unhappy update

On the Rust – taking the view as we do that the sanctity of a “level playing field” is absolute when it comes to sporting contests – we maintain a clear and unforgiving attitude towards the use of performance-enhancing drugs in sport in order to cheat and therefore gain victory, whether [...]

December 27, 2020 // 0 Comments

The theory of Life

As I approach my 69th birthday this weekend with alarming speed it is surely a sign of the times when, somewhere in the media earlier this week, I read a report upon a study of 917 people between the ages of 14 and 77 by some Norwegian psychologists demonstrating to their own satisfaction that [...]

October 29, 2020 // 0 Comments

The future of sport – discuss

As yesterday at 11.00am we watched Sir Patrick Vallance and Chief Medical Officer Professor Chris Whitty do their Two Ronnies act scaring the heebie-jeebies out of the UK general public with their presentation on the gathering storm of a second “Covid-19” wave of infections and deaths from 10 [...]

September 22, 2020 // 0 Comments

Another bulletin from the sporting front line

One of the joys of being a regular visitor – and occasional blogger – to this organ is the wide variety of interests and viewpoints among its correspondents. These can range from the meaning of Life to matters of sporting minutiae, philosophy, great obscurity and then some of the more mundane [...]

August 22, 2020 // 0 Comments

Sometimes worrying things are close to home

A recurring duty in my list of ‘to dos’ in my capacity as Sports Editor – sometimes delegated to others at times of extremis, I admit – is to sweep the internet in a search for sports stories of potential interest to Rusters, with particular regard to three headings: (1) [...]

July 12, 2020 // 0 Comments

A pair of sporting stories in the UK newspapers

It’s in the nature of this world that necessity is the mother of invention. One potentially positive aspect of this coronavirus crisis is that the lockdown has prompted a wide range of people to come up with unusual, novel and inventive ways of “doing those things that they always intended to [...]

May 19, 2020 // 0 Comments

Report from the front line …

Hello. I haven’t troubled the scorers in the ongoing unofficial Rust contributors ‘most prolific poster’ competition for a while. Nevertheless, I am happy to return to the fray this morning, hard on the heels of the news that Jo Pavey, the 47 year old middle distance runner, will be [...]

May 15, 2020 // 0 Comments

The facts of life

Despite the inevitability that time keeps moving on and things change, arguably some of them don’t. Amidst the often-mocked doctrines of the “woke” generation, diversity, political correctness – and yes the feminist-inspired “Me Too” campaign – one cannot [...]

March 15, 2020 // 0 Comments

Keeping an eye upon some perennial favourites …

Here’s an update upon the latest media stories on two issues we feature regularly in our Rust sports coverage: CONCUSSION Iconic Wales rugby union player George North is even now undergoing concussion protocols as a result of yet another head injury he sustained in the last round of Six [...]

February 28, 2020 // 0 Comments

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