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Just one of those things

I don’t regard myself as a vain person – others might quip “Just as well!” as this point – and as a result have never been motivated to undertake such ‘maintenance’ pastimes as diets and fitness regimes by a desire to ‘look good’. Whenever I have gone on an exercise blitz, it’s [...]

October 28, 2014 // 0 Comments

It’s going to get worse before it gets better

Yes, that’s right folks – it’s the Dad’s Army theory of the future [Frazer: “We’re Doomed! We’re Doomed!” – Corporal Jones “Don’t panic! Don’t panic!”] – it appears that we’re all going to hell in a handcart! [...]

October 28, 2014 // 0 Comments

The bragging rights come home

Rugby is no exception to the general sporting rule that derby matches count for plenty and last night’s 16-23 victory over Wasps in the second round of the group stage of the Rugby Champions Cup (which has replaced the Heineken as the top European competition) was a welcome boost to what [...]

October 27, 2014 // 0 Comments

Debating points

Having reported upon my trek to Islington to see Friday night’s concert featuring Dave and Phil Alvin yesterday, I subsequently reminded myself of a fascinating discussion that my little group had whilst consuming its pre-match meal. Amongst his many attributes, a couple of years ago my [...]

October 26, 2014 // 0 Comments

It came to me in a flash

In a perverse way, probably like many National Rust readers, I quite enjoyed my live Sky News coverage of David Cameron’s press conference meltdown yesterday over the EU’s latest demand of the United Kingdom – a £1.7 billion ‘penalty’ for our economy performing slightly better than [...]

October 25, 2014 // 0 Comments

Roots are what music is all about

Last night (Friday 24th October) I crossed town to the Islington Assembly Hall in order to join my brother and a pal on a pilgrimage to see Dave and Phil Alvin, sibling kernels of cult American rockabilly/R & B/Americana band The Blasters, on their latest (‘and The Guilty Ones’) UK [...]

October 25, 2014 // 0 Comments

A full day for once

One aspect of growing old is that you don’t have quite the energy stores of yesteryear. Yesterday I had a moderately busy time of it – something of a novelty in itself – the schedule for which involved going for a catch-up morning coffee with my daughter in a town just north of Oxford and [...]

October 24, 2014 // 0 Comments

Complicated issues

As a spin-off from my piece yesterday on the sentence given out to Oscar Pistorius in South Africa, today I venture into equally difficult and complex waters by taking as my subject the current media cause célèbre of the release from prison of convicted rapist Ched Evans and the row over whether [...]

October 23, 2014 // 0 Comments

It’s the context that counts

Yesterday in South Africa Paralympian Oscar Pistorius was finally given a five year custodial sentence for his conviction in respect of the culpable homicide of his then girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp on Valentines’ Day 2013. [I should declare a minor personal interest here in that I am a lawyer, [...]

October 22, 2014 // 0 Comments

Back for seconds

Following my piece published on the National Rust yesterday, please excuse me popping up so soon with another full of more cynicism about those who play the British politics game. I was prompted to do so partly because of an article by Robert Colville on the hypocrisy of Lib-Dem leader Nick Clegg [...]

October 21, 2014 // 0 Comments

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