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And your point is?

The crazy thing about the war of the sexes is that it still makes the headlines. These days arguments over whether or not there have been disproportionately few great female artists, musicians, composers or political leaders down through history ought to be superfluous, but we still get the same [...]

December 12, 2014 // 0 Comments

A Meeting of Old Friends

Yesterday I had lunch with two old friends , a lunch that  seems to have taken place since time immemoriam. After various venues we settled on the Guinea Grill as one a keen trencherman and imbiber said it had a fine wine list . The Guinea Grill has been going for years- like us. It’s rather [...]

December 12, 2014 // 0 Comments

Less means more (not)

I am always on the look-out for reports and surveys dealing with developments in human relationships – both out of general personal interest and in case these might shed light on some of the mysteries of the universe. In which context, one of the media stories doing the round of the broadsheet [...]

December 11, 2014 // 0 Comments

The saga continues

We at the National Rust make no apology for our continuing interest in the use of performing-enhancing drugs in sport. At this moment in time there are hard-hitting stories brewing about cycling [Wow! Quelle surprise!] and two recent German television documentaries alleging that a household-name [...]

December 11, 2014 // 0 Comments

A mass of contradictions

One of comedian Frankie Howard’s much-loved catch-phrases [used conspiratorially to his audience, whether it was in a theatre or at home watching on television] was “No, don’t laugh – it’s wicked to mock the afflicted …” and I’m somewhat reluctant to invoke it here when [...]

December 10, 2014 // 0 Comments

A warning to heed?

Nobody who has any knowledge or experience of modern elite sport would deny that the near-constant commercial and other pressures place enormous strain upon athletes and (where appropriate) their teams and coaching staff. There are some sports in which over-playing, tiredness and [...]

December 10, 2014 // 0 Comments

The slippery slope

It is in the spirit of the urgings of our esteemed editor that – in amongst anything else we might offer – we should shed light upon our descent into senility by noting aspects of our decline whenever we come across them that I begin my post today. The past 36 hours have not been amongst my [...]

December 9, 2014 // 0 Comments

A welcome victory

Now here’s a funny thing – in a re-run of the infamous ‘Bloodgate’ match of 2009, yesterday the Harlequins hosted the mighty Dublin-based Leinster province at the Stoop and not only beat them 24-18 in a full-bloodied contest that either side could have won, but thereby laid a number of [...]

December 8, 2014 // 0 Comments

Queueing as a form of life

Yesterday (Saturday) I was obliged to go food shopping – not a task I particularly enjoy at this time of year. Earlier in the week I had been to Sainsburys and found myself shocked by the sheer volume of numbers. I am certain this is a feature of growing older – you become gradually less [...]

December 7, 2014 // 0 Comments

A memorable day

Earlier this year my father, who still ranks ‘Eric & Ernie’ alongside Laurel and Hardy as the two greatest comedy partnerships of all-time, took delight in reminding us that Eric Morecambe died exactly thirty years ago. Since I was working in ITV – to where Eric and Ernie had latterly [...]

December 6, 2014 // 0 Comments

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