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With a nod to “When did you last stop beating your wife?” – the legal phrase allegedly deployed recently and controversially by Attorney General Geoffrey Cox QC – I wished to turn today to the vexed subject of gender. In doing so, and being (as I am) sufficiently ‘in touch’ to be [...]

October 6, 2019 // 0 Comments

Doing it right

It is an inalienable fact of life that every sport known to man comes with a series of principles that define its culture and to an extent attracts participants that respond to them on one level or another. There are also inherent differences between those which one might describe as individual [...]

October 5, 2019 // 0 Comments

Something to write home about

As it happens I was out on the golf course yesterday partaking in a traditional practice round in the company of a Canadian relative by marriage in advance of an annual family tournament – an outing in days of yore used to be a welcome warm-up for the main event. Sadly, I fear that at my stage of [...]

October 4, 2019 // 0 Comments

And in The End …

It is in the nature of things that at a Ruster’s stage of life reminders of tempus fugit – welcome or otherwise – tend to come thick and fast in all areas of existence. Recently in the field of music a new edition of the Beatles’ penultimately released (but last recorded) album Abbey Road, [...]

October 3, 2019 // 0 Comments

A “Doh!” moment in Doha

Sharp-eyed Rusters may have noticed our ‘non-coverage’ of the World Athletics Championships currently taking place in Doha, Qatar, over the past few days. No disrespect intended to those dedicated and hard-working individuals who devote themselves to participating in track & field – [...]

October 2, 2019 // 0 Comments

Autumn reflections

Without wishing to pile logs on the fire of the national misery surrounding the Brexit crisis, the state that Parliament has got itself into or indeed the culture surrounding political discourse generally as we embark upon one of the most crucial and far-reaching months in the history of this [...]

October 1, 2019 // 0 Comments

The Emperor has no clothes

It is perhaps a sign of our turbulent and unsettling times that my somewhat eventful weekend brought together events and ruminations that resulted in some uncomfortable conclusions and judgements. To be more specific, a what was later identified as a several-days’ old leak from a flat two floors [...]

September 30, 2019 // 0 Comments

Two weddings – no funeral

Rather like the buses I don’t go to a wedding for months and then two come along in successive weekends. Yesterday I went to Claridges to celebrate the wedding of an old friend. For both he and his bride to be it was the second time round. They opted for Claridges and a cocktail party from 5-8 [...]

September 29, 2019 // 0 Comments

Changing times – or maybe not?

The UK may think that it is currently immersed in the mother and father of mess-ups over politics, Brexit and where the hell it is going, but you can take comfort in the knowledge you’re not alone. Those at the top table of rugby administration – not least World Rugby itself – are making a [...]

September 29, 2019 // 0 Comments

The state of the world

Following the political developments upon both sides of the Pond in the media over the past week it has occurred to me that the world has progressed well beyond the dismissive clichéd truism “You couldn’t make it up”. A combination of ‘Fake News’, the hysterical and embarrassing [...]

September 28, 2019 // 0 Comments

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