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Wimbledon

Daddy bought me a debenture for Wimbledon but we agreed this year that I would sell the tickets for the fortnight back to the All England Club and use the money for a holiday. I’m a fully paid-up member of the “Watch it on television” Rusters group and cannot believe the prices asked [...]

July 9, 2022 // 0 Comments

Arrivederci, Boris …

On this organ – in the main – we do our best to avoid what might be described as “straight reporting” of headline news stories and/or sporting contests for a combination of three reasons. Firstly, because the mainstream Fleet Street media and others supply this ad nauseam upon a [...]

July 8, 2022 // 0 Comments

Le Tour

Yesterday I watched an enthralling 5th stage of the Tour de France which followed the route more or less of the great classic Paris-Roubaix. Much of the terrain is cobbled narrow tracks which in the one day classic leads to a exacting race as the cobbled stones shake up the riders and in the rain [...]

July 7, 2022 // 0 Comments

Chums/Simon Kuper

The central thesis of Simon Kuper’s book is that a tiny caste of Oxford graduates of the 1980s took over the running of the country and the origins of Brexit are to be identified there. The clear flaws in this theory are that Nigel Farage and the 52% that voted leave were not educated there. [...]

July 6, 2022 // 0 Comments

David Hockney’s Eye/Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge.

The weekend took me up to Cambridge for the opening of my college library. I used the opportunity to visit the Fitzwilliam Museum which I did not know as much as I should. There I saw one of the best curated exhibitions I have ever visited. The theme was to set David Hockney’s works alongside the [...]

July 4, 2022 // 0 Comments

On musical tastes and one’s place in time

Over the past week or so – nothing to do with my editorial duties I hasten to add – I have chosen to watch specific items featuring popular (rock) music on the television for my own enlightenment and/or pleasure. I have blogged previously upon my view that, in many respects – whether we like [...]

July 4, 2022 // 0 Comments

The way things are going …

Trawling the internet via the media websites overnight I came upon the following piece on the website of the Daily Mail – as Rusters will appreciate from experience, one of the few newspapers that still allow human beings to “link” their stories to pals and third parties – and considered it [...]

July 4, 2022 // 0 Comments

More England rugby woes

England have now suffered four consecutive defeats. Most of my rugby pals shared my pessimism in the build-up and were critical of Eddie Jones. On Saturday, England failed to beat a 14 man team – not of the highest rank – who lost their fly half to injury in the warm up. The [...]

July 3, 2022 // 0 Comments

Tempus keeps fugitting …

Life has a habit of throwing up happy accidents and/or random interventions that either prove to be decidedly fortuitous or indeed quite the opposite. Only the other day the publisher of this organ mentioned in a conversation that its founders’ original mission had only ever been “to do [...]

July 3, 2022 // 0 Comments

Once more unto the breach …

Regular Rusters may be aware that – possibly in part as a gesture of defiance and/or general “raging against the dying of the light” – from time to time I undertake periods of what might properly be described as regular physical activity but I prefer to pretend are “fitness campaigns”. [...]

July 1, 2022 // 0 Comments

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