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Jonathan Sumption speaks

Jonathan  Sumption, brilliant lawyer, High Court judge and medieval historian has been called the cleverest man in England. Here he cogently argues that the lockdown is unnecessary, ineffective and disastrous for the economy: Link courtesy of – YOUTUBE     [...]

May 27, 2020 // 0 Comments

Living some way from the front line

During a chat with a member of the Rust’s editorial team the other day he revealed that he had become the equivalent of terminally bored with the coronavirus crisis. I could instantly sympathise with where he was coming from, not least because the effects of Covid-19 so dominate the newspapers [...]

May 20, 2020 // 0 Comments

Sad and inconvenient truths

Life, as an elderly uncle commented the other day, joshing me gently with a black-humoured chuckle, is a terminal disease. The notion is not incompatible with the principle that all lives are equally important. Amidst the continuing media storm over the Government’s handling of the [...]

May 15, 2020 // 0 Comments

Nothing to write home about, as usual

For my sins, last night I watched Boris’ Speech to the Nation on BBC One at 7.00pm and the the Huw Edwards-anchored BBC News Special that followed. Long-suffering Rusters will be aware of my overwhelming cynicism towards politicians, which extends to the view that Boris is not Premier material [...]

May 11, 2020 // 0 Comments

Hysteria has pulled into town

Last weekend – from personal experience – I found myself drawing inexorably towards the view that the British public had either gone mad and/or, fuelled by boredom, frustration and perhaps a sense of “Oh, what the hell …?”, had begun to ignore the Government’s “Stay Home, Protect the [...]

May 10, 2020 // 0 Comments

Taking stock but always in vain

When the time comes to look back over the course of UK’s coronavirus crisis – and possibly the world’s too – one aspect that will need examining in depth is the general degree of public semi-madness, concern and anxiety generated by the endless amounts of rumour, speculation, fantasy, [...]

May 5, 2020 // 0 Comments

It’s all going a bit weird

When I went out for my one per day exercise walk yesterday I was both surprised and dismayed by what I came across – and that’s allowing for the fact that it was early afternoon, possibly a peak time for others to be doing similar. To be blunt it was as if I’d been asleep for a month, there [...]

May 3, 2020 // 0 Comments

A man on a mission

Michael (Lord) Ashcroft, 74, is a British born entrepreneur/businessman estimated in March 2020 to be worth £1.7 billion and a man of many parts. He officially lives ‘off shore’, retains dual citizenship with Britain and Belize, and his tax status has been a source of controversy most [...]

May 3, 2020 // 0 Comments

Hancock’s half hour

The ridiculous controversy over Secretary of State for Health and Social Care Matt Hancock’s highly ambitious announcement that the Government would be doing 100,000 coronavirus tests per day by 30th April – and specifically as to whether the Government had achieved its target or not when the [...]

May 2, 2020 // 0 Comments

Yesterday was a Thursday (I think)

Yesterday – just another in lockdown, albeit with a variation supplied by the inclement weather – gave me the opportunity for a touch of rumination on the future and life after the coronavirus crisis, if and when there is some. Over these past few weeks not a few I have spoken to have [...]

May 1, 2020 // 0 Comments

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