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Barely leaving the pier

Although as the Rust’s ‘music man’ I am entrusted with commenting upon all kinds of music and performer, like any human being I have my heroes. A personal favourite of mine is Brian Wilson, the mastermind behind the Beach Boys, whom I regard as one of the greats of the past seventy five [...]

May 25, 2015 // 0 Comments

The way ahead

Writing as a senior citizen who likes to think – probably erroneously – that he keeps up to date with what is happening in the world via his television-watching and internet-browsing, I was pleased this week to be given new confidence about the future by two media reports. The first was about a [...]

May 24, 2015 // 0 Comments

Montgomery’s reputation

A. recent book on the Ardennes campaign, popularly known as the Battle of the Bulge, by the distinguished historian Antony Beevor  (Ardennes 1944: Hitler’s last gamble) is critical of Field Marshal Montgomery. Monty in charge of the  Northern Army hoped that everyone would be back home by [...]

May 23, 2015 // 0 Comments

Saluting a classic

They say that simple things please simple minds and here I declare my devotion to the American television animation series The Simpsons which, at times when I am bored or otherwise waiting for something, I occasionally seek out either on Channel Four or on Sky. Decades ago I worked in television [...]

May 23, 2015 // 0 Comments

Having your cake and eating it

I’m conscious that I might well be barking up the wrong tree in commenting upon this issue but overnight I spent a period up to 0100 hours this morning listening to Radio Five Live. One of the topics of the moment was the ‘gay cakes’ discrimination case in Northern Ireland, in which (as I [...]

May 22, 2015 // 0 Comments

Stating the obvious

Pardon me for being thick, but – ever since Prime Minister David Cameron hatched his strategic plan of renegotiating the UK’s relationship with the EU and then putting the result to the electorate in a referendum – I’ve considered the wheeze ridiculous, borderline crackers. Never mind Mr [...]

May 21, 2015 // 0 Comments

Working out what happened

Life constantly goes forward and thus the General Election result announced on 8th May is fast receding into the past. For the average punter/voter, trying to follow the antics of the ‘losing’ parties is a complicated task involving (as it inevitably does) a delicate tippy-toeing between the [...]

May 20, 2015 // 0 Comments

And hopefully, goodbye to all that …

This, my last blog post of the 2014/2015 season, follows Quins’ 26-27 defeat to Bath last Friday night at the Stoop – a slightly atypical loss amongst our many this term in that it followed an exciting ding-dong battle in which the lead changed six times and the outcome could have gone either [...]

May 10, 2015 // 0 Comments

Out-takes and impressions

Still suffering from my debilitating bout of man-flu, I spent much of yesterday unable to muster much interest in life as it is lived by others, either abed or in my favourite television-watching armchair. This unpromising set-up actually enabled me to form some insights or opinions upon the [...]

May 9, 2015 // 0 Comments

Rummaging through the embers

It is the morning after the night before and the media pundits are now running amok on all broadcasting channels. One of their main quests is to try to work out how and why the boffin from Strathclyde University who oversaw the GfK, NOP and Ipsos MORI ‘exit poll’ prediction on behalf [...]

May 8, 2015 // 0 Comments

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