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Coverage of the Fourth Test

As I write this towards the end of the third day with England struggling, I would rather post on the coverage particularly the Aussie contribution. When I was last in Australia 5  years ago there was no journalist I enjoyed more than Gideon Haigh in The Australian. The newspaper was given out free [...]

January 7, 2022 // 0 Comments

The Aftermath (2019)

I found the films over the festive period disappointing. There is a reason for this and that reason is Netflix. Netflix, whose annual subscription is less than the BBC licence fee, are broadcasting films shortly after their cinema general  release. So BBC and ITV are reduced to showing their stock [...]

January 6, 2022 // 0 Comments

More “woke pro-cyclist madness” …

From our “You just couldn’t make it up” department:- Here’s another glaring example in the Rust‘s ongoing campaign against the Government’s misguided policies championing the nefarious interests of cyclists above those of tens of millions of  law-abiding [...]

January 5, 2022 // 0 Comments

Seagulls soaring

With 7 points outs of a possible 9, Brighton can look back at a successful festive season. For the first time Brighton scored 3 in a match at Everton in a 3-2 win and 2 came from the unlikely source of Alex Mac Allister [Note to sub-editor: he likes to separate his “Mac” from his [...]

January 5, 2022 // 0 Comments

Lowry and Dali/BBC 4

BBC 4 on a Monday has some excellent art programmes and yesterday there were two such: Fake or Fortune and another on Salvador Dali. On Fake or Fortune the son of a successful northern businessman was seeking to authenticate 3 Lowrys acquired by his father. His problem was, whilst they [...]

January 4, 2022 // 0 Comments

Weekend sport

Once again sandwiched between two Premiership soccer matches of high fliers another Premiership match – the rugby variety – provided me with the best entertainment when Harlequins left Kingsholm with a narrow victory (20-17) over Gloucester. Winning at Kingsholm is never easy but all [...]

January 3, 2022 // 0 Comments

New Years Day Concert/ Vienna

My favourite ritual on New Years Day is the annual concert in Vienna. Tickets are gold dust- all the more this year as because of the pandemic the audience in the Golden Hall was limited to 1,000. The concert honoured Daniel Barenboim who was conducting the Vienna Philharmonic. He is 80 now and I [...]

January 2, 2022 // 0 Comments

Lunch at home/University Challenge

In the week I gave lunch to our art teacher J and her husband R. At various points in the morning as I was preparing lunch I asked myself the question “Would it not be easier to take them to the local and cheapo Italian?” One such moment was after I left M & S, which has excellent food [...]

January 2, 2022 // 0 Comments

Vienna Blood

In my normal way I’m reviewing Vienna Blood after seeing all three episodes of the second series. It is a psychological thriller set in Vienna around 1900 and is based on the Frank Tallis novels. The two central characters are police officer Oscar Rheinhardt (Jurgen Maurer) and a pupil of [...]

December 31, 2021 // 0 Comments

The silly season continues here …

As another Rust year draws to a close and we contemplate what 2022 might bring, it occurred to me that – as is not unusual in the gap between Christmas and New Year – there is a remarkable lack of worthy media news stories doing the rounds. As proof of my proposition, here are two [...]

December 31, 2021 // 0 Comments

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