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Two items from me today:   TRANSATLANTIC TRADE AND INVESTMENT PARTNERSHIP Here’s a follow-up to my spot of a report in The Independent yesterday about the leak of pages from the highly-secretive and positively disturbing EU/US trade agreement entitled ‘TTIP’ currently being negotiated. [...]

May 3, 2016 // 0 Comments

Done up like a kipper!

If the recent revelation by The Independent of the leak of hundreds of documents related to the highly-secret and controversial Transatlantic Trade an Investment Partnership (‘TTIP’) being negotiated between the EU and the United States of America is not a potentially decisive game-changer for [...]

May 2, 2016 // 0 Comments

Sad, but it had to be done …

Sunday 1st April 2016: Madejski Stadium: Aviva Premiership Round 21: London Irish 25 Harlequins 32: Respective latest league positions – Harlequins 6th on 55 points, London Irish 12th on 20 points (relegated into the Championship). I did not watch this Harlequins away match because firstly, I [...]

May 2, 2016 // 0 Comments

Remembering rugby’s sacrifice

Yesterday afternoon I travelled to Twickenham Stadium for the launch of the RFU’s Rose & Poppy Gates opposite the middle of the West Stand – essentially a memorial to the England internationals who were killed in the First World War – but (and I was unclear on this point) possibly [...]

April 30, 2016 // 0 Comments

What goes around comes around (maybe)

The tribal gulf between adherents of Rugby Union and Rugby League, caused by the hundred years ‘parting of the ways’ in 1895 when the Northern Union clubs (League wasn’t called League until about 1922) split off over the question of ‘broken time’ payments, i.e. professionalism, remains [...]

April 28, 2016 // 0 Comments

You heard it here first

As the EU Referendum Day draws ever nearer, both sides are filling the media with a snowstorm of claims and counter-claims. Within the past fortnight we have had US President Obama joining in on the Remain side by urging the UK to stay in; Michael Gove (Brexit) claiming that staying in the EU will [...]

April 27, 2016 // 0 Comments

An Evening of Magic

This year Sussex CCC does not have a cricketer as beneficiary but rather its charity the Sussex Charitable Foundation.  David Bowden who is active in both the Cricket and  SCF and a talented magician to boot organised an evening of magic at the Hove Ground last night for the SCF to which I was [...]

April 26, 2016 // 0 Comments

In pursuit of sports equality

For good or ill, today I return to the vexed and ultimately related problems of sexism in sport and extreme political-correctness – a subject that re-emerges from time to time on this highly-regarded media organ. I am taking as my text for this purpose the article that appears today upon the [...]

April 26, 2016 // 0 Comments

Yesterday on Marr

Today I must begin my piece with a disclaimer. As regular Rust readers will know – and therefore accordingly discount my views by whatever percentage they choose – on the matter of the EU Referendum I am an avowed Brexiter largely because I wish to rid the UK of Scotland. That said, I am doing [...]

April 25, 2016 // 0 Comments

Some call it progress

In this era of supposed gender equality it sometimes seems as if there’s been little progress in human relationships and ‘the battle of the sexes’. Here’s a link to an article by Barbara Ellen that appears today upon the website of – THE GUARDIAN Sometimes we like to kid ourselves that [...]

April 24, 2016 // 0 Comments

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