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Getting down to it

Scotland has had its referendum and decided to remain within the United Kingdom. The wider implications are enormous, as indeed they would also have been if Scotland had voted “Yes”. The potential fall-out the UK now faces highlights both the strengths and weaknesses of democracy. The losing [...]

September 21, 2014 // 0 Comments

Declining frequency

The newspapers openly refer to late summer as ‘the silly season’ – a period when, because half the world seems to be on holiday and there’s very little going on in the world, weird stories involving skateboarding ducks, UFOs and/or the state of Jordan’s (sorry, Katie Price’s) [...]

September 20, 2014 // 0 Comments

Onward we go!

I am personally devastated by the “No” result of the Scottish referendum. All my soundings, feelers, expectations and indeed earnest hopes were that the Jocks would vote for independence and leave the rest of the UK to go forward into a brave new world in which we would eventually dominate [...]

September 19, 2014 // 0 Comments

It won’t stop here

[Editor’s note: Simon Campion-Brown has been given temporary leave of absence. I was going to use the infamous euphemism ‘Simon Campion-Brown is ill’ but, given the National Rust‘s principles and drive for truth, I prefer to admit to our readers that Simon’s view upon [...]

September 17, 2014 // 0 Comments

Bon voyage

At some point this morning, probably not before 10.00am, my son Barry and his crew will be departing on board his super-yacht for a ten-day voyage to southern Portugal. They have been holed up in a Gosport marina for the past ten days awaiting a suitable weather ‘window of opportunity’ and [...]

September 14, 2014 // 0 Comments

Food for thought

Spotted today on the website of The Guardian, an excellent article by Jonathan Freedland on the implications of a ‘Yes’ vote in the Scottish independence referendum which I commend to readers of the National Rust – see here – JONATHAN [...]

September 13, 2014 // 0 Comments

Quins 0 Saracens 39 – the scoreline says it all

FACT: The Stoop has a reputation as something of a fortress and a forbidding place for opposition teams to visit. The Harlequins fans pride themselves on the length of the gaps between home losses and, until last night, the current period had been twelve months and counting. REALITY: As regular [...]

September 13, 2014 // 0 Comments

Practising the art of the possible

It’s one of life’s truisms, but ultimately all human inter-relations at country-level and above are governed in their extent and effectiveness by the art of diplomacy. Diplomacy, of course, is an esoteric pastime reserved – in Britain at least – for mandarins in the Foreign and [...]

September 12, 2014 // 0 Comments

Fading away

The media is awash today with reports and reviews of the new Apple Smartwatch and iPhone 6 – see here for a typical example on the website of THE GUARDIAN As a senior citizen, I’ve long held the opinion that the relentless march of new technology is a reliable yardstick by which the descent of [...]

September 10, 2014 // 0 Comments

The rewards of history

Currently my son Barry and his crew are still holed up in Gosport, waiting for both weather and orders. Yesterday he rang to mention that in the afternoon they were going to visit the new Mary Rose exhibition centre at the Historic Dockyard in Portsmouth and on a whim I drove over to join them. As [...]

September 9, 2014 // 0 Comments

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