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Who’s watching who and why?

These days – in the circles wot I move in – it has become a bit of a cliché to mention in company that one is a tad concerned by the manner in which we are, or may be, being watched over or observed without our knowledge or consent. Rusters occasionally detail on this organ instances of [...]

September 19, 2019 // 0 Comments

Droning on

It was inevitable, if you think about it. The moment that video-gaming and the world of super-technology came together and took the concept of recreational flying toy aircraft – a refuge of anoraks the world over for the best part of 75 years – beyond all norms and to the logical [...]

September 17, 2019 // 0 Comments

On we go

As a habitual tuner to Radio Five Live ever since it first hit the airwaves in its current format in March 1994, I tend to treat its regular presenters of the moment like old friends, even as from time to time they come and go on to bigger (or lesser) things as their career fortunes ebb or flow. [...]

September 16, 2019 // 0 Comments

A ray of hope upon the horizon?

Far be it from me, dripping with a sense of entitled intellectual superiority, to exclaim “I told you so!” and/or otherwise wallowing in a sea of self-satisfied vindication at my own quasi-Nostradamus standard predictive skills, but I did manage to attain a degree of Zen-like [...]

September 15, 2019 // 0 Comments

Will the last person in the building please switch off the lights

Just when one thought The Brexit Matter couldn’t get any worse, suddenly – with appropriately ghastly timing – the spectre of David Cameron, the man who brought the whole thing about by setting up the 2016 EU Referendum, returns to haunt us with the launch of his 752-page political memoirs [...]

September 14, 2019 // 0 Comments

Remind you of anyone?

When times get tough and every news bulletin seems to bring details of new chaotic developments to your living room that out-do those of the day before, the average UK citizen could be forgiven for thinking that the world has gone plumb loco. Boris Johnson became Prime Minister on 24th July – not [...]

September 12, 2019 // 0 Comments

Brexit latest

Now let’s get this straight. The whole sad, sorry, pathetic, Establishment-revealing Brexit saga is somebody else’s fault, okay? Way back in the Dark Ages the blame lies with Harold Macmillan – you know the one, the patriarchal cove who instigated “the night of the long knives’ against [...]

September 9, 2019 // 0 Comments

It’s not easy watching a man drowning

I’ve just looked it up online, so it must be true: in his play Man and Superman, George Bernard Shaw – having a pop at the teaching profession – penned the line: “Don’t listen to her, Bob. Remember, those who can, do; those who can’t, teach.” Another popular version of the same thrust [...]

September 4, 2019 // 0 Comments

Review: first day of a momentous week?

Yesterday – for my sins, out of curiosity given the alleged momentousness of this week and possibly also for the benefit of fellow Rusters who couldn’t be bothered to follow by-the-minute-developments – I decided to spent much of my time ‘monitoring’ the political manoeuvrings at [...]

September 3, 2019 // 0 Comments

What really happened? No, me neither …

Today I return to the sometimes intriguing and puzzling relationship between reality and subjective perception, a subject that we on the Rust occasionally touch upon with a hint of mischievousness and humour. As I commence this piece I am listening to a Dotun Adebayo-hosted edition of Radio Five [...]

September 2, 2019 // 0 Comments

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