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Walking back to happiness (as Helen Shapiro once sang)

At the beginning of the year – approaching six months after my hip replacement operation, the point at which medical savvy had it that someone in my position should ordinarily be ‘back to normal’ – I made a commitment to both my regular Rust readers that I would provide updates from [...]

April 6, 2017 // 0 Comments

Much ado about nothing (possibly)

The recent furore attending upon Sunderland football manager David Moyes’ inappropriate end-of-interview remark to female BBC sports reporter Vicki Sparks has not only highlighted several issues but launched a thousand newspaper columns and caused innumerable rent-a-mouths to bestride the [...]

April 6, 2017 // 0 Comments

Something new every day

As regards the wonderful world of natural science I’m a complete philistine. Nobody could ever accuse me of following in the footsteps of the likes of David Attenborough, Matt Baker or Chris Packham – though I’m bound to confess that in the late 1950s, as small boy of six or seven, I became [...]

April 4, 2017 // 0 Comments

Reaching for the button …

It’s good to know that, contrary to popular belief, the UK Government has long been planning for all contingencies arising from geo-political developments such as a Russian invasion or a Brexit. Here’s a report by Adam Lusher on how Mrs May and her Cabinet might be able to resolve not [...]

April 4, 2017 // 0 Comments

Once more unto the breach (again)

Reading the revelations this week in The Times and elsewhere about the current overspending disaster that has befallen Britain’s Defence budget, it was difficult to escape the conclusion that Defence is a no-win item. When you think about it – apart from the chaps (and chapesses) that you [...]

April 2, 2017 // 0 Comments

I can’t even remember what it was I came here to get away from*

(* Musically-inclined Rust readers may be familiar with the above lyric line from Not Dark Yet off 1997’s Time Out Of Mind, one of my all-time Bob Dylan favourite albums). Today I thought I’d begin my offering by sharing with my readers a snap of Perkins, the male pheasant who over the [...]

April 1, 2017 // 0 Comments

Democracy versus politics (continued)

After a very busy time of it yesterday I made myself a much-needed stiff drink and relaxed in front of the television to watch the BBC1 Six O’Clock News. One of the main topics was the Government’s now published Great Repeal Act, which was getting the Opposition extremely aeriated, an [...]

March 31, 2017 // 0 Comments

Just another day at the office …

Yesterday at midday, feeling that I ought to do so on such a momentous day, I deliberately tuned in to the BBC’s Daily Politics programme to watch Prime Minister’s Question Time and then Mrs May’s statement to the Commons on the day that she triggered Brexit by sending a six-page letter to [...]

March 30, 2017 // 0 Comments

Aspects of political correctness

Here’s an early bid to win a nomination for the shortlist of the 2017 version of the internal Rusters’ competition to find the most incongruous link between two media stories. My starting point is that familiar old bugbear of the editorial team – the wonderful world of Political Correctness. [...]

March 29, 2017 // 0 Comments

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