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A crackpot scheme

Labour’s election pledge to deliver free broadband by 2030 has been more or less capsized on techno, financing and competitiveness grounds but – for me – the greatest idiocy as outlined in the scheme by John McConnell is that, due to the size of the investment, Labour would take it [...]

November 16, 2019 // 0 Comments

Something that came back to me

A snapshot from the past. Yesterday, as I was walking into town to do some shopping, for no reason at all I remembered a scene from my past that made me smile. Eons ago – well, it must have been about 1966 because I was fourteen at the time – I was living away in the countryside at a boarding [...]

November 16, 2019 // 0 Comments

Get your hard hats at the ready …

Rusters might not have noticed but the UK’s General Election process is now cranking into gear with just over a month ago. While the rest of us – the flood-suffering residents of Fishlake included – are just trying to get on with our lives having now collectively reached the terminal stage of [...]

November 15, 2019 // 0 Comments

It’s going to get worse before it gets better …

Hmnn …. as I begin this post I’m conscious that many Rusters may be fed up to the back teeth with Brexit’s latest manifestation – the General Election – but after yesterday’s developments the bee in my proverbial bonnet has been buzzing in my brain like a jackhammer road drill which [...]

November 13, 2019 // 0 Comments

Heaven can wait

My subject today is one of sport’s current cause célèbres – the use of video technology to ‘improve’ the quality of refereeing and umpiring decisions. Even that statement raises an issue. Simply because it involves judgements and decisions made by one or more human beings, the skill of [...]

November 12, 2019 // 0 Comments

Reflections upon Remembrance Sunday

My paternal grandfather, whom I never met, was a territorial soldier for most of his adult life. Twenty years old at the outbreak of war in August 1914, as the saying goes “he had a [relatively] good WW1” in that, despite being wounded several times and at one point buried alive, he fought in [...]

November 10, 2019 // 0 Comments

The legacy continues

On the eve of Remembrance Sunday the thoughts of many of us turn to those who have served or still serve in the military – those who survived unharmed the experience of being ‘in action’, those who survived but were physically or mentally scarred by it and, of course, those who [...]

November 9, 2019 // 0 Comments

It’s happening all the time

There are two sides to almost everything and it occurred to me the other day that – in the context of ageing – this applies even to the supposed vicissitudes of a fading memory. As I get older I find myself not only becoming more forgetful but also being accused more often of being so by those [...]

November 7, 2019 // 0 Comments

Something good must come of it

Someone once wrote “It is a truth universally acknowledged …” and in the context of a 21st Century in which the human world becomes ever smaller and more interconnected perhaps  nobody should be surprised when greed, self-interest, sailing close to or ‘bending’ the rules in order to gain [...]

November 6, 2019 // 0 Comments

The morning after the night before – and the future

As the Rust‘s delegation returns from the Rugby World Cup – one of those expeditions that shall remain long in the memory – the world of rugby union is just beginning to wrestle with the aftermath of a brilliantly-staged tournament and the attendant issues that face the sport, [...]

November 5, 2019 // 0 Comments

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