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Beware Greeks (or anyone) bearing gifts

The United Kingdom’s relationship with the EU has been a running sore for far longer than I can remember – I’m a bit hazy about anything further back than 2004, so let’s say about forty years. Most of our electorate have an in-built suspicion about anything that involves unelected [...]

June 23, 2015 // 0 Comments

Getting on

Someone once said “The world takes you at your own estimation”. Even though my kids are now in their thirties, I often quote that statement at them. I’m not 100% certain what it means, but the way I interpret it is that, broadly-speaking – and I’m not talking race, class or gender here [...]

June 20, 2015 // 0 Comments

A worthy reunion

Yesterday my brother and I went for lunch with my father and his oldest pal Patrick, who is now over ninety. As it was also the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo, we had decided to celebrate that with a bottle of champagne and various props including British, French and Italian (well, it [...]

June 19, 2015 // 0 Comments

Deja Vu unlimited

Last night I watched the first Labour leadership candidates’ televised debate – entitled Newsnight- Labour Leaders – on BBC2 at 7.00pm. The reason for doing so was little to do with my rank as a Rust political correspondent, and rather to do with the fact there’s bugger-all worth watching [...]

June 18, 2015 // 0 Comments

Another day at the coast

Yesterday in the dead of night I was obliged to drive for an hour and a half for a rendezvous at the M2 service station nearest the A3 turn-off at 0400 hours. The purpose of this ridiculous expedition was to lend my brother my ‘Continental legally-required’ set of self-administering [...]

June 16, 2015 // 0 Comments

Life on the ocean wave

Towards the end of last week I travelled to stay with my father at the coast for about ten days – part of the reason being to sail in an annual regatta which takes place in June. This year my father is celebrating his half-century as owner/skipper of his 21 feet (at the waterline) keel boat which [...]

June 14, 2015 // 0 Comments

We’re doomed! (Don’t panic …)

Two media stories took my eye yesterday. The first was a report in The Times on the latest long term outlook issued by the Office for Budget Responsibility. [I would have wished to ‘link’ my readers directly to it, but I refuse no principle to pay the subscription in order to be able to do [...]

June 13, 2015 // 0 Comments

A chance encounter (with a razor)

Back around 1970 the worst thing that any teenager could imagine happening to them was probably a case of disfigurement (e.g. an outbreak of spots) the day before an important first date. Yesterday, way past my sixtieth birthday I suffered an oldie’s equivalent when, having arranged to meet a [...]

June 10, 2015 // 0 Comments

When sport disappoints

Sport is a life-enhancing part of life, or it ought to be. We spectators come to it every time expecting or hoping to be lifted out of our mundane existences and transported to a world in which magical things happens and we can marvel at the athletic skills of people more talented than ourselves. [...]

June 8, 2015 // 0 Comments

Not all developments are advances

Flibanserin. Write that down, ladies – … ‘FLIB … AN … SER … IN’. Apparently, when you’re in Tesco’s tomorrow morning after dropping the kids off at school and firing up your first wash of the day, make sure you pop by at the pharmacy counter and pick up a set of four boxes of [...]

June 7, 2015 // 0 Comments

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