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Horse racing needs to take a look at itself in the mirror

As someone of limited interest in horse racing – jumping or flat – the recent British Horseracing Association disciplinary case, in which professional female jockey Bryony Frost called out Robbie Dunne for conducting a personal campaign of verbal abuse and threats against her over a period of [...]

December 16, 2021 // 0 Comments

Party time at Number 10

One of the more surprising aspects of the current snowstorm of crises surrounding the besieged regime of Boris Johnson is that anyone finds it surprising. From his teenage years onwards, almost everyone who ever came into close contact with the present incumbent of Number 10 had him marked down as [...]

December 12, 2021 // 0 Comments

The Ashes

I really enjoy following the Ashes during these wintry nights snug under my duvet. Being a poor sleeper, waking regularly through the night, it’s a boon and I keep the radio on beside me. Early on Wednesday morning I tuned to the inevitable batting collapse. England were 62-5 with Joe Root, Ben [...]

December 9, 2021 // 0 Comments

Grinding to a halt under the eco-activist yoke

At the risk of becoming tagged as the Rust‘s unofficial motoring correspondent, today I return to the the subject of two significant threats to the quiet enjoyment of Britain’s public roads by the ordinary, average, law-abiding, private motorist – namely, cyclists and those who [...]

December 7, 2021 // 0 Comments

Standing up for what counts

Sometimes it occurs to me that, given the frequency with which contributors to this organ feel obliged to open their musings with an apology and/or ‘declaration of interest’ for being either an oldie and/or generally ‘out of touch’, our average reader might be forgiven for gaining the [...]

December 6, 2021 // 0 Comments

Not just a matter of self-identification

Many of those who contribute to this organ take pride in the Rust‘s long and healthy record of pointing out both the oddities and absurdities of modern 21st Century “woke”, politically-correct, “Let’s invent new groupings of supposedly disadvantaged put-upon minorities [...]

December 3, 2021 // 0 Comments

Happy Christmas, everyone!

One of the fascinating aspects of the ongoing saga of the Covid-19 pandemic – latest development the “discovery” of the Omicron variant believed by some to have first occurred in southern Africa, if not South Africa itself – is that the battalions of both the “No other way to deal with [...]

December 1, 2021 // 0 Comments

Boris Johnson, Judaism and politics

My niece sent me this Chanukah message from Boris Johnson – see here, courtesy of – TWITTER Like many including the Rust political columnists she cast Bojo as bumbling, lacking genuine conviction, chaotic, rackety, with an unusual personal life. However, even his sternest critics must [...]

November 30, 2021 // 0 Comments

Driving disqualification developments

Yesterday I was interested to come across a media story that, following a Freedom of Information Act request from the Press Association, the DVLA has revealed that some 8,632 UK motorists who have amassed 12 points on their driving licences for either speeding and/or drunk-driving offences – and [...]

November 30, 2021 // 0 Comments

View from the coal face

Last week I completed my annual medical review with a consultation with a cardiologist. I do not imagine this is is of great interest to the reader other than that I can report I passed my MOT and was signed off for another year. What may be of interest is how a medical professional views the [...]

November 27, 2021 // 0 Comments

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