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The passing of a legend

Perhaps the biggest media story of the week was the news that UK national treasure and all-round entertainer Sir Bruce Forsyth CBE had died on Friday afternoon at the ripe old age of eighty-nine. As on other similar occasions, I am afraid I have not bothered to read the special six-page newspaper [...]

August 20, 2017 // 0 Comments

Everything works fine until it doesn’t

One of the ironies of the age is that anyone of ‘a certain age’ (like me) can be found harping on about how things were in their youth – and how baffling or stupefying the modern world increasingly tends to be – and yet half the time we’re also part of it. On the Rust there’s always [...]

August 19, 2017 // 0 Comments

There comes a time

As an oldie myself, I could not help sympathising with actor Tom Cruise four or five days ago when garish media stories went viral about a stunt that went wrong whilst he was filming a roof top chase sequence for the movie Mission: Impossible 6. I should add here that I don’t get out much these [...]

August 18, 2017 // 0 Comments

Whose news is it anyway?

In these strange times there are moments when you find yourself shaking your head wondering just what the hell is going on. My son is currently staying with me and scarcely a day goes by when, reacting to the latest news from the United States about the antics of Donald Trump, he doesn’t comment [...]

August 17, 2017 // 0 Comments

A bit of a find

Yesterday I teamed up with a brother for a military-style mission to take our 91 year old father to a Harley Street consultation in central London. My brother did the ‘pick up’ by travelling to the coast and driving said parent to my place in south London, after which my contribution would be [...]

August 16, 2017 // 0 Comments

Is the future electric?

As an old geezer, I like to swing back and forth between being ‘up with the latest technological advances’ and the direct opposite. It so happens that I was looking through a recent copy of Stuff magazine the other day – it’s the monthly one whose obvious competitor is called T3 – just to [...]

August 15, 2017 // 0 Comments

A modern conumdrum

Amidst the madness that seems to have engulfed the world recently – whether you’re talking the 2017 UK General Election result, Brexit, the 2016 US Presidential campaign, the current confrontation between President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un or indeed the weekend’s events in [...]

August 14, 2017 // 0 Comments

The media merry-go-round – is it reporting or creating?

My subject today springs from the recent media story about the thirty-something male jogger who was allegedly caught on CCTV on Putney Bridge pushing a female pedestrian into the road, whereupon she appeared to have been saved from serious injury, if not death, by the instinctive action of a [...]

August 14, 2017 // 0 Comments

My topic was a false start

In following the Rust’s stance of principle against the use of performance-enhancing drugs in sport, I have made use of a nose-peg and a healthy pinch of salt each time before tuning in to the World Athletics Championships now drawing to a close at the London Stadium. There are so many things [...]

August 13, 2017 // 0 Comments

It may not be cricket – or rugby – as we know it …

Drawing parallels between sports can be something of a fantasy pastime, especially in the 21st Century when the commercial demands of globalisation, social media and ‘instant gratification’ can seemingly send previous time-honoured cultures, folklore and traditions askew. In the UK the 1963 [...]

August 11, 2017 // 0 Comments

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