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The honeymoon is over – so where’s the beef?

One British political myth – or is it truth – combining both received opinion and straight history is that, whereas the Labour Party is at continual war with itself over ideological issues and in particular engages in prolonged leadership battles, the Tory Party is eternally better off because [...]

December 29, 2016 // 0 Comments

Same old, same old (with sleigh bells on)

Tuesday 27th December: Aviva Premiership: Harlequins v Gloucester Rugby (Big Game 9) at Twickenham Stadium, kick-off 4.00pm (attendance 77,000); Result – Harlequins 28 Gloucester Rugby 24. Regular Rust readers will be aware that I gave up attending matches at Twickenham Stadium some eight years [...]

December 28, 2016 // 0 Comments

Witnessing a great sporting moment

I’ve got to own up here – I’m not really into sport. I played a bit at school, largely because it was compulsory, and have variously tried squash, golf and garden cricket in my time but participation is not really my game. I began following football by becoming a notional ‘fair weather’ [...]

December 27, 2016 // 0 Comments

Christmas fun

Yesterday we popped across London to join a Christmas Day gathering that became one of the most enjoyable of its kind I can recall in recent times. As a group we have a had a number of family health issues in the past twelve months – and also a wedding – and yet the schedule unfolded in as [...]

December 26, 2016 // 0 Comments

Fings ain’t wot they used ter be

This is my sixty-fifth Christmas and one thing I’ve noticed recently is that either my computer keyboard needs a new battery – that was my first assumption some eight months when I first noticed the phenomenon, since when I’ve changed the batteries twice – or my ability at two-fingered [...]

December 25, 2016 // 0 Comments

The application of common sense

About this terrorist attack on the market in the centre of Berlin, its aftermath and the bloody end of the Tunisian Anis Amri, widely suspected to have being the main perpetrator, in Milan after a European-wide manhunt – pardon me, but am I missing something? Let me begin by mentioning a couple [...]

December 24, 2016 // 0 Comments

Why do these things always happen to me?

Yesterday I had a dentist appointment to replace a tooth cap that I had lost without even noticing it: “Perhaps you swallowed it …?” he had helpfully suggested when we met a fortnight previously for my six monthly check-up. Is it Murphy’s Law that says “If it is possible for something [...]

December 23, 2016 // 0 Comments

Pub talk

After the Mickey Mouse mismatch-farces of the Timisoara Saracens European Challenge Cup matches over the past fortnight, we Harlequins fans are now preparing for the festive season and what in 2016 will be the supposed extravaganza of Big Game 9 at Twickenham Stadium next Tuesday, the day after [...]

December 22, 2016 // 0 Comments

It’s all going crazy!

Twice every year there tends to be a disconnect between the world as it normally is and a degree of weirdness, i.e. during the August (end of summer) ‘silly season’, when not much is happening, and then the second half of December, when it’s almost a case of too much going on. It won’t have [...]

December 20, 2016 // 0 Comments

One last trip to the Stoop before the New Year

Saturday 17th December: European Challenge Cup pool stage: Harlequins v Timisoara Saracens at the Stoop: Result – Harlequins 75 Timisoara Saracens 3. Quins tries: Wallace, Visser, Roberts 3, Brown 2, Yarde 2, Clifford, Swiel. Quins conversions: Jackson 5, Swiel 5. Having won the away leg 42-3 [...]

December 18, 2016 // 0 Comments

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