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Aha! At last I think I’m ‘getting’ it …

Let me explain how you – okay, what I really mean is I – can hold two on-the face-of-it completely contradictory political views at the same time. It’s as simple as this. Firstly, I take the view it is a given that democracy (in its Western liberal ‘one man, one vote’ form) is a decidedly [...]

November 29, 2016 // 0 Comments

Phew! Another close call …

Aviva Premiership Round 9: Sunday 27th November 2106: Harlequins v Bath Rugby at the Stoop, kick-off 3.15pm: Result – Harlequins 21 Bath Rugby 20: League points – Harlequins 3 Bath Rugby 1: (New league positions – Bath Rugby third in the table on 31 points, Harlequins 6th on 21 points, five [...]

November 28, 2016 // 0 Comments

Talk is cheap at the business end

In family circumstances yesterday in which I watched the whole of England’s 24-17 victory at Twickenham against Argentina and then the first half of Ireland’s 27-24 win over Australia in Dublin on television, it is fast becoming a moot point as to which of these home nations will be favourite [...]

November 27, 2016 // 0 Comments

(As Marvin Gaye once warbled) What’s Going On

Much as the Establishments of the UK and EU might wish otherwise the Brexit Conundrum continues to dominate political and the news agendas across Europe and – for all I know – across large parts of the globe as well. Everything happening these days seems to come with some angle or another upon [...]

November 26, 2016 // 0 Comments

A meeting at the coast

For a variety of reasons which need not concern us here my November has been unusually hectic. As a break from everything else that is going on, yesterday I drove to the coast for a family meeting coinciding with the arrival of my father’s new live-in carer – in actual fact, one specifically [...]

November 24, 2016 // 0 Comments

They’re always playing ‘START ME UP’ somewhere …

Being a fan of old-style Rhythm & Blues – rather than the modern hip-hop variety – I’ve been a fan/follower of the Rolling Stones down the ages ever since they first crossed my radar, probably at some point in 1963 a few weeks or months after the Beatles. I won’t provide here a summary [...]

November 23, 2016 // 0 Comments

Phew! It’s tough even keeping up

We live in what can be described as ‘interesting’ times – what with Jeremy Corbyn becoming leader of the Labour Party, the EU Referendum and Brexit, Donald Trump becoming US President-elect, Mr Putin’s Russia continuing to flex its geo-political muscles and European potentially entering a [...]

November 23, 2016 // 0 Comments

It’s just about okay, if you don’t take it all too seriously

20th November 2016: Aviva Premiership Round 8: Leicester Tigers v Harlequins at Welford Road, kick-off 3.15pm: Result – Leicester Tigers 25 Harlequins 6. Overnight yesterday it had rained with something like a vengeance and in the morning, as I discovered when I nipped across the road to collect [...]

November 21, 2016 // 0 Comments

The art of modern politics

There is a cute but erroneous notion going the rounds that we only let the Rust’s political columnist Simon Campion-Brown out of his box now and again for fear of alienating readers of a sensitive disposition (not least our own staffers) with some of his hairier views upon those who inhabit the [...]

November 20, 2016 // 0 Comments

An act of plucky Brit defiance hits its mark

[The events recorded in this post occurred yesterday and regular readers will be familiar with my suspicion that I am under constant surveillance by organs of the British Government in its attempt to persecute me for spurious driving offences, most particularly speeding on UK roads. For the above [...]

November 19, 2016 // 0 Comments

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