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The record’s stuck, I’m afraid

Any worthwhile study of how politics works should be grounded in an exercise in developing an understanding of the absurd and counter-intuitive. Listening to the radio, reading the newspapers and watching current affairs television programmes over the weekend, one was forcibly reminded of the fact. [...]

October 20, 2014 // 0 Comments

Over to you, Conor …

Tonight I shall be travelling down to the Stoop to see the Harlequins take on Castres in the first-ever game in the new Rugby Champions Cup, the new pan-European competition that replaces the 19-years old and now defunct Heineken Cup. It’s basically the same competition with slightly more weight [...]

October 17, 2014 // 0 Comments

Sign o’ the times

My father, who turned 89 last week, set off yesterday to have lunch in central London with an old colleague, a peer of the realm, and his daughter. The occasion had been proposed by the daughter, who had bumped into my father outside the Gate cinema at Notting Hill Gate – introduced herself [...]

October 15, 2014 // 0 Comments

Moore than enough

In another two years it will be 60 since England’s soccer World Cup victory. Here’s a review by Ian Herbert of a new book on the great Bobby Moore, written by the Daily Telegraph‘s Matt Dickinson, as seen on the website of THE [...]

October 13, 2014 // 0 Comments

Another snore-fest

Last night, at the end of a long and arduous day, I flopped onto my sofa with a large gin & tonic and a takeaway pizza, switched to BT Sports channel 2 on my cable box and settled in to watch the Leicester Tigers versus Harlequins Premiership clash at Welford Road. For a fan, hope springs [...]

October 11, 2014 // 0 Comments

But how stiff will I be this morning?

Yesterday I drove to Petersham for a warm-up round of golf with my brother and a Canadian relation in advance of my brother’s annual tournament later today in the heart of the East Sussex countryside. Both outings are something of an annual tradition. With having to manage my ongoing hip [...]

October 10, 2014 // 0 Comments

This one will run and run

The topic of the moment for not just female readers of National Rust – as heralded by my article yesterday – can be categorised by reference to that classic Meg Ryan scene in the diner from When Harry Met Sally …, when a middle-aged lady, sitting at a table in the background, [...]

October 10, 2014 // 0 Comments

Back to basics

Wonders never cease. This week we have learned from our esteemed peers in the scientific community that there is no such thing as the vaginal orgasm. See here for a representative report upon the latest findings, as written by Rose Troup Buchanan for the website of THE INDEPENDENT Give me strength! [...]

October 9, 2014 // 0 Comments

The game continues as before … for now

Thank God – or someone – that the UK party political conference season is finally over. I suppose that it was fitting that the Lib-Dems were last to step up to the plate, with their leader Nick Clegg gaining praise for his apparently good delivery of a stirring ‘Call to Arms’ speech as we [...]

October 9, 2014 // 0 Comments

The song remains the same

The political party conference season is almost over. We’ve had those from Labour, the Tories – somehow perhaps missed UKIP’s and the Green’s along the way – and now we’ve got the Lib-Dems’, which is taking place, or has just taken place [it’s difficult to tell] in Glasgow. In a [...]

October 5, 2014 // 0 Comments

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