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The mince-grinder of sporting success

The English Premiership season is drawing to its play-off stage and, appropriately perhaps, the one thing that can be said for those clubs involved [Wasps, Exeter Chiefs Saracens and Leicester Tigers] is that – over the course of the competition – there can be no dispute that the best four are [...]

May 9, 2017 // 0 Comments

Strange times and indeed a strange world

Yesterday (7th May) I followed my habitual Sunday morning routine of watching the Andrew Marr Show on BBC1 from 9.00am followed immediately by Nicky Campbell’s weekly audience debate show The Big Questions an hour later – whilst flicking through The Sunday Times, The Sunday Telegraph and the [...]

May 8, 2017 // 0 Comments

A day out in Northamptonshire

Saturday 6th May 2017: Aviva Premiership Round 22: Northampton Saints v Harlequins at Franklin’s Gardens; Result – Northampton Saints 22: Harlequins 20: Northampton Saints 4 league points, Harlequins 1 losing bonus point. Final league positions – Harlequins 52 points, Northampton Saints 52 [...]

May 7, 2017 // 0 Comments

Voting issues

For several years on this website I have bored readers with my resolutely negative view of Western democratic political elites – not least those of all parties within the UK version – because of their patronising attitude towards the voting electorate. I’ve even suggested that anyone [...]

May 5, 2017 // 0 Comments

A high-achiever and natural communicator

This is either going to be a ‘first’ for the Rust … or a complete waste of time. I say that with a degree of confidence because, as a ‘Gold Star’ winning technophobe, I have not the faintest idea as to whether what I am about to attempt will work … Let me [...]

May 4, 2017 // 0 Comments

Future to the back

Perhaps comic Frankie Howard’s most famous catch-phrase (I recall it most often in the context of his vehicle Up Pompeii!) was a staged aside protest to his audience as they were laughing at a previous insult/gag he’d just cracked about some hapless fellow character: “No don’t – [...]

May 3, 2017 // 0 Comments

Going back and coming forward

My hunch is that the majority of our readers would regard it as par for the course – given our self-styled contrary, old-school, anti-mainstream, cult status slant – for the Rust’s music correspondent to admit that he doesn’t listen to music much anymore these days. The fact is [...]

May 1, 2017 // 0 Comments

Getting ready to rumble

Just before lunchtime yesterday I decided to purchase my cable company’s pay-per-view offering of live coverage of the super-fight boxing bill featuring as its main event the world heavyweight championship bout between Britain’s supposed novice but greatly-hyped 27 year old Anthony Joshua and [...]

April 30, 2017 // 0 Comments

Another tale of ‘cheap and cheerful’ flying

Reading of Robert Tickler’s experience of flying back to the UK by Easyjet on the Rust yesterday brought to mind my own progress from Palma, Mallorca to Gatwick on Thursday evening. One of the things that never ceases to amaze me – when our media and left wing politicians would have it that the [...]

April 30, 2017 // 0 Comments

A evening of stirring farewells in south-west London

Aviva Premiership Round 21: Harlequins v Wasps at the Stoop: Result – Harlequins 32 Wasps 13: Harlequins 4 points, Wasps 0: League positions – Wasps 1st (79 points, 5 ahead of second placed Exeter Chiefs who have played one less match, Harlequins 6th (51 points, 3 ahead of seventh-placed [...]

April 29, 2017 // 0 Comments

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