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Get your hard hats at the ready …

Rusters might not have noticed but the UK’s General Election process is now cranking into gear with just over a month ago. While the rest of us – the flood-suffering residents of Fishlake included – are just trying to get on with our lives having now collectively reached the terminal stage of [...]

November 15, 2019 // 0 Comments

It’s going to get worse before it gets better …

Hmnn …. as I begin this post I’m conscious that many Rusters may be fed up to the back teeth with Brexit’s latest manifestation – the General Election – but after yesterday’s developments the bee in my proverbial bonnet has been buzzing in my brain like a jackhammer road drill which [...]

November 13, 2019 // 0 Comments

The legacy continues

On the eve of Remembrance Sunday the thoughts of many of us turn to those who have served or still serve in the military – those who survived unharmed the experience of being ‘in action’, those who survived but were physically or mentally scarred by it and, of course, those who [...]

November 9, 2019 // 0 Comments

It’s as bad as you first imagined

Like I suspect most prospective voters with a pulse I’ve been keeping a watching brief upon the recently-officially declared “off and running” General Election, just as I’ve kept one broadly-speaking over the last nine plus years since the Tories returned to office overlayed, as all events [...]

November 8, 2019 // 0 Comments

The certainties of uncertainty

We are – what? – two days and counting into the General Election campaign and all I have seen and read leads me to the conclusion that ‘The Nightmare’ [the three year crisis over Brexit which has now extended into a general existential crisis over our political elite, the constitution and [...]

November 2, 2019 // 0 Comments

When common sense goes AWOL

Yes, I am a male correspondent in his late sixties and therefore – despite any pretensions to being sympathetic to the cause of female emancipation I may claim from time to time – no doubt have the fairly rudimentary attitude towards feminism and women generally that as man of my generation [...]

October 31, 2019 // 0 Comments

They’re off!

Tuned to Up All Night on Radio Five Live overnight, about 3.30am I think it was, I caught what I’d describe (possibly erroneously) as the regular “Brexit Podcast” produced by the BBC’s political correspondents sitting around and just discussing the latest developments in Parliament. During [...]

October 30, 2019 // 0 Comments

Five days and counting …

Hot on the back of the unexpected – I’m not going to say unintended – news that the Rust’s contingent of correspondents in Japan for the final ten days of the Rugby World Cup have been nominated for a special Pullitzer Prize for Best Foreign Coverage of a Global Event, today I thought I’d [...]

October 29, 2019 // 0 Comments

A sensible precaution?

The only thing stopping me instigating a Rust poll or survey –  simply to find out the various ways that our UK readers’ have devised for themselves in order to cope with the never-ending Brexit crisis – is the prospect that it would only add to the general pain. There’s a general [...]

October 22, 2019 // 0 Comments

Sorry to mention it, but …

Well, yesterday’s House of Commons “Super Saturday” – the first since the Falklands War crisis of 1982 – was a bit of a damp squib, wasn’t it? With the current Brexit 31st October departure date looming ever closer everybody involved, including the media, had assumed in advance that [...]

October 20, 2019 // 0 Comments

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