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Battening down the hatches

During the course of the last seven days there have been two media stories that have highlighted the gulf that exists between men and women. Firstly, there has been the news that those campaigning on both sides of the EU Referendum debate are being urged to address their ‘women’ problem [...]

May 31, 2016 // 0 Comments

As long as you’re still learning new things yourself …

They tell me that the saying “Life is what happens to you when you’re busy making other plans” comes from a John Lennon lyric – a line from Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy) from the former Beatle’s last album Double Fantasy in 1980 – but these days there are two principle means by which I [...]

May 29, 2016 // 0 Comments

Another staging post is reached

This week, some two years and seven months after suffering what appears to have been a self-inflicted catastrophic onset of osteoarthritis in my hip whilst playing golf, I went for a pre-op assessment in advance of my date with the knife for a hip replacement in July. By ‘self-inflicted’ I mean [...]

May 28, 2016 // 0 Comments

Bidding a temporary farewell …

The dictionary definition of ‘purdah’ suggests that it is a practice of certain Muslim and Hindu societies whereby women are screened from men or strangers, especially by means of a curtain. As regards the UK political system, as I understand it, the word has come to be applied to an agreed (or [...]

May 27, 2016 // 0 Comments

Some may not like it up ’em (at least at this time of the morning)

Yesterday my schedule had been built in advance around the latest Prime Minister’s Question Time shown live from the House of Commons on BBC2 as part of the Daily Politics programme hosted by Andrew Neil. What I hadn’t banked upon was the fact that David Cameron wasn’t going to be there – [...]

May 26, 2016 // 0 Comments

The best outcome of all

The EU Referendum campaign has less than thirty days to run and seems to have settled into a pattern of new daily accusatory ‘he said/she said’ claims and denials from both camps. In the past fortnight we have had the Remainers claiming that every family in the UK would be £4,300 worse off, [...]

May 25, 2016 // 0 Comments

Responsibility lies with the man in charge of decisions

The biggest controversy arising from yesterday’s announcement of England rugby head coach Eddie Jones’s squad for the tour of Australia next month is the selection of Harlequins’ wing threequarter Marland Yarde, apparently at the expense of Saracens’ free-scoring Chris Ashton. The argument [...]

May 24, 2016 // 0 Comments

Whoever would ever have thought it?

[Disclaimer: There’s been a long-running in-joke on the Rust team for years about ‘filler’ media reports setting out supposed insightful findings about humanity, as discovered by obscure research teams in obscure universities around the world, usually via surveys they have conducted featuring [...]

May 24, 2016 // 0 Comments

Dealing with the media

Something that has always fascinated me is the relationship between people – of whatever status, be they ordinary members of the public, celebrities, agents, PR spokesmen, CEOs and/or chairman of public bodies or business organisations or (wash my mouth out) even politicians – and the media [...]

May 23, 2016 // 0 Comments

Another day before the mast …

I’m currently staying with my elderly father, primarily engaged upon combining mowing the lawn in between the rain showers and watching sport on television. On Friday we watched an hour or two of the first cricket Test Match between England and Sri Lanka at Headingley – with eight wickets down, [...]

May 22, 2016 // 0 Comments

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