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Not so much Murphy’s Law as a Murphy no more …

Yesterday I had a poignant brush with the past – my own, and possibly also that of others of a similar age and state of mind. Eons ago, well approximately 52 years ago when I was being educated in a boarding school far away in the country, in one circumstance or another – probably a deal for a [...]

October 22, 2019 // 0 Comments

A sensible precaution?

The only thing stopping me instigating a Rust poll or survey –  simply to find out the various ways that our UK readers’ have devised for themselves in order to cope with the never-ending Brexit crisis – is the prospect that it would only add to the general pain. There’s a general [...]

October 22, 2019 // 0 Comments

A worthy read

Britain has a proud tradition of developing outstanding sports journalists and one of the current crop that I usually find worth reading is Jonathan Liew, currently plying his trade on The Independent. Accordingly I offer a link to his latest piece – on the subject of ‘specially [...]

October 20, 2019 // 0 Comments

Sorry to mention it, but …

Well, yesterday’s House of Commons “Super Saturday” – the first since the Falklands War crisis of 1982 – was a bit of a damp squib, wasn’t it? With the current Brexit 31st October departure date looming ever closer everybody involved, including the media, had assumed in advance that [...]

October 20, 2019 // 0 Comments

Yes, I think I’ve got it now …

Having watched several current affairs television programmes yesterday and read the newspaper websites overnight, and whilst I hold no brief for key political players involved – or indeed for any related policy involved, well beyond the fact that I am a firm supporter of the second Scottish [...]

October 18, 2019 // 0 Comments

Strange new and remembered times

For those readers who may have missed it – particularly female ones – I begin my post today by providing a link to a piece by Meghan Daum that appears today upon the website of The Guardian in case it may be of interest. It is a thought-provoking opinion piece from the perspective of a [...]

October 17, 2019 // 0 Comments

The same old song

For most of yesterday for reasons beyond my control I was sat in front of the television and on at least two occasions was obliged to watch coverage of the Scottish National Party’s annual conference in Aberdeen – the second of them being for the entirety of leader Nicola Sturgeon’s keynote [...]

October 16, 2019 // 0 Comments

The influence of testosterone upon sporting performance

As regular readers will be aware – and to the frustration of some including our marketing department – one of the features of the Rust is its deliberate lack of a particular political or other stance on any subject including the pursuit of popularity or commercial success. It is what it is [...]

October 16, 2019 // 0 Comments

Another step on the road to somewhere

With opening apologies to those Rusters who have had a bellyful of Brexit-related matters and would really rather read of something/anything else, yesterday because of circumstances against my control I happened to watch a large proportion of the BBC’s coverage (fronted by Huw Edwards) of the [...]

October 15, 2019 // 0 Comments

Making a hash of it

Anyone who has ever used a keyboard will be familiar with the vagaries of random fortune when it comes to tapping the wrong key, a phenomenon that doesn’t necessarily fade into the distance even when modern technology specifically designed to prevent or protect the tapper against the problem is [...]

October 15, 2019 // 0 Comments

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