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Going down to the water, but not drinking …

Being – to coin a phrase – an old age pensioner who necessarily lives somewhat hand-to-mouth, I have to confess that sometimes I have been less than sympathetic to the type of Brit who complains bitterly that they don’t have enough to live on, have to visit food banks etc. and then put the [...]

February 15, 2020 // 0 Comments

Postcard from plague city

You might have thought that Brighton and Hove, with five recorded cases of coronavirus, is a city in panic. Far from it. I now travel on the buses as I have a senior free pass. I have noted that illness is frequent topic of conversation on buses, especially as the number 7, which goes through the [...]

February 13, 2020 // 0 Comments

The glorious uncertainties of sport and business

One of the developing themes in our coverage human activities is the extent to which the popularity of different elite sports affects their participants’ careers, short or long, and either boosts or hinders their projected future development. Not to place too fine a point upon it, many of the [...]

February 13, 2020 // 0 Comments

The subtle art of letting it creep up on you …

Ageing is a weird process because every living thing does it without ever – I suspect – fully knowing (or should that be ‘acknowledging’) it. Every dog begins as a ball-of-fluff puppy, acts like one until they’re about eight or even ten and then gradually turns in to a wheezing, rarely [...]

February 10, 2020 // 0 Comments

A sporting conundrum

There’s one thing I’d wish to assure regular Rusters who might be labouring under a misapprehension on the point – and that is that we don’t just sit around all day in our ‘virtual editorial offices’ actively trying to dream up new subjects upon which to begin serial debates or [...]

February 9, 2020 // 0 Comments

Another Moses who came down from the mountain …

Ed Moses, now 64, is indisputably one of the all-time greats of track and field – and also one of my favourite sporting heroes partly because of his extraordinary achievements and partly because of his physique and personality. A quite different character to Muhammad Ali, perhaps the all-time [...]

February 7, 2020 // 0 Comments

The perils of non-surprise

When you’re my age – i.e. a stage at which most of what was once worth retaining of one’s body has already “gone south” (or missing) there’s a certain rhythm and lack of expectation to life. The prospect of being lured upstairs on the spur of the moment by an [...]

February 6, 2020 // 0 Comments

On the other hand – and indeed side of the Pond …

I’m bound to say that if we in the UK have had some weird political times since the 2016 EU Referendum, they’re nothing compared to what the United States of America has been going through since Donald Trump was elected President. “As any fule no” – to quote the legendary Nigel [...]

February 6, 2020 // 0 Comments

It Ain’t Right …

It’s funny how the modern world operates sometimes – I’m thinking of such recent phenomena as the ‘diversity’ row over at the recent BAFTA awards which even Prince William felt necessary to complain about, even though he’s President of the ruddy organisation. As an oldie, what strikes [...]

February 5, 2020 // 0 Comments

A funeral of a friend

Yesterday I attended the funeral of the father of a fellow Ruster. On the train journey along the South Coast I reflected on why we go to funerals: is it duty, paying your last respects, support, obligation? In my case it was to pay my last respects.  I was flattered to be considered close enough [...]

February 5, 2020 // 0 Comments

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