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Hmmmnnn …

Pardon me for being mischievous but, having read this story on the website of The Independent this morning, I’ve been trying to work out whether it is just a piece of factual reporting … or, alternatively, an outrageous piece of Remain propaganda being put out by some sore loser still [...]

July 8, 2016 // 0 Comments

Chilcot reaction

The publication yesterday of the 2.6 million word (twelve volume) Chilcot Report presented something of a challenge for an organ such as the Rust. Regular readers will be familiar with our standard approach to current and sporting events – viz. that we tend to avoid straight journalistic [...]

July 7, 2016 // 0 Comments

Here we go again

As anyone of a certain seniority will testify, modern life is constantly evolving – sometimes for the better, sometime not so – and wrestling with it all is part of the human condition. At my stage of life I’m always on red alert to avoid being pigeon-holed as a dog-in-the-manger-style moaner [...]

July 6, 2016 // 0 Comments

Round and round we go

Last night I watched a report by Adrian Chiles for the BBC1 current affairs programme Panorama on the subject of those who had voted for Brexit in the EU Referendum. For some people Chiles is a ‘Marmite’ broadcaster, but personally I quite like his often perceptive questioning coming, as it [...]

July 5, 2016 // 0 Comments

Goodbye to all that

That’s it for me. Fed up with the EU Referendum result and the political crisis that has inevitably followed, I’m off. I’m sufficiently worldly-wise that I anticipated some, but not all, of the fall-out that occurred after the Brexit vote. It always seemed to me that if you call a referendum [...]

July 4, 2016 // 0 Comments

Another lost weekend

After another Sunday morning spent in my favourite armchair flicking through the newspapers with BBC1’s The Andrew Marr Show and then Sunday Politics playing on the television in the corner of the room I suppose I should feel ashamed of myself but actually don’t. ‘Rubber-necking’ is what I [...]

July 4, 2016 // 0 Comments

Feeling good about giving stuff up

Thinking back now, I think it was about January 2009 – not long after my fifty-seventh birthday – that I stopped worrying about modern technology. Or as the young of today might more accurately put it, finally gave up, let go, and stopped trying to keep up with it. The vehicle involved in [...]

July 3, 2016 // 0 Comments

Somme thoughts

My grandfather won his MC on the Somme in September 1916 and I spent yesterday, the occasion of the centenary of that Battle’s opening day (in terms of casualties the greatest catastrophe in British military history), in the company of my father. Mr grandfather – by then a Brigadier – was [...]

July 2, 2016 // 0 Comments

View from the bunker

There exist theories that reality is a dream and vice versa; that there is a parallel universe, or indeed several existing simultaneously; that time is a human concept, and only a human concept, devised to explain something else quite different but I cannot quite remember what that was; and, of [...]

July 1, 2016 // 0 Comments

Dawn chorus

Yesterday I was pleased to join the Rusters’ outing to the Minerva at the Chichester Festival Theatre preceded by a very pleasant and lively lunch at Murray’s at the back of The Ship in North Street – especially since, when the expedition was first mooted, and ironically in view of my [...]

June 30, 2016 // 0 Comments

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