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Today I’m the last to leave of the National Rust party. It’s gone well. I prefer the apartment with its stunning views over the Baie des Anges and greater space to last year’s more cramped one. With the help of Alice Mansfield we have made cultivating excursions to the museums of [...]

April 28, 2017 // 0 Comments

Boats ahoy!

On Wednesday I jumped onto an Easyjet flight at Gatwick in order to nip down to Palma, Mallorca, and spend just 28 hours seeing my son Barry who lives and works there. I’d originally hoped to do this seven days earlier – on his birthday – but such is his hectic work schedule that he [...]

April 28, 2017 // 0 Comments

Now the fun begins

As a self-professed cynic I sometimes get accused by readers of not taking politics seriously enough in the context of world affairs and the nation’s future etc., but I cannot help that. My area of special interest is the ‘game’ and its procedures rather than the respective party policies and [...]

April 26, 2017 // 0 Comments

A new business opportunity

This one comes straight from the “You couldn’t make it up” genre of newspaper website stories but, in case Rust readers have missed it on their daily trawl of the internet, today I really did feel the need to draw their attention to this recent story on the imminent arrival of the concept of [...]

April 25, 2017 // 0 Comments

Slipping on a banana skin?

We’ve had Donald Trump being elected US President, the announcement of a UK General Election on 8th June, Emmanuel Macron (who started his own political party only a year ago) now installed as heavy favourite to become the President of French next month – how could the world get any weirder [...]

April 25, 2017 // 0 Comments

A decidedly unimpressive outing

Being en route to London at the time I was unable to watch yesterday’s BBC1 Sunday Politics show as it was being transmitted (unusually) mid-afternoon due to priority being granted to the Beeb’s coverage of the London Marathon. Instead, after a little technical difficulty, I managed to locate [...]

April 24, 2017 // 0 Comments

Something turns up

Just occasionally one learns of some archaeological dig in an unlikely location that turns up something really exciting and may broaden the world’s understanding of the progress of human civilisation to the modern era. Here’s one that I spotted on the website of The Guardian today [...]

April 23, 2017 // 0 Comments

Under starter’s order … and they’re off!

And so here we go again – another UK General Election, this time on 8th June. For an avid veteran politician-watcher such as myself there is no such thing as whatever-that-woman-from-Bristol’s-name-was (that gave an exasperated ‘You’ve got to be kidding me!” type reaction to a media [...]

April 20, 2017 // 0 Comments

Farewell to a legend

Yesterday it was announced that All Black and Harlequins fly half Nick Evans, 36, one of the most gifted rugby union exponents it has been my pleasure ever to set eyes upon, was to retire at the end of this season. There’s plenty that I could have mentioned in a piece to salute this [...]

April 19, 2017 // 0 Comments

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