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The pressure ramps up

Simon Campion-Brown is unwell. I don’t wish to over-dramatize things but Rust readers beyond a certain age may recognise this cultural reference to Jeffrey Bernard, who used to write a column entitled Low Life for The Spectator magazine in the 1970s and 1980s. This detailed his indulgent life [...]

June 2, 2017 // 0 Comments

Must do better

My Bank Holiday weekend was slightly strained at times for domestic reasons, not least because I hadn’t realised that it was one, if you see what I mean. As a retired person, I still have weekdays and weekends, but they tend to all blend into one and in my book a Monday is a ‘weekday’ – end [...]

May 30, 2017 // 0 Comments

Unfolding events cause abandonment of a plan

This is the naked truth. I rose just after 11.00pm last night – slightly earlier than normal, to be honest – in order to begin my (first) day shift. Shortly afterwards I began hearing ‘breaking news’ on Radio Five Live about the explosion(s) at the Manchester Arena after a concert by Ariana [...]

May 23, 2017 // 0 Comments

What’s going on

I awoke in a cold sweat last night after having a nightmare. Or possibly it was after realising that I hadn’t been having a nightmare at all but that in fact everything I had been ‘experiencing’ was actually true. It had to be one or the other. ‘Alternative facts’ and ‘Fake news’ [...]

May 21, 2017 // 0 Comments

Voyage half-way through?

A snapshot of Thursday 18th May 2017. Just another General Election campaign day: another manifesto; several carefully ‘stage-managed’ appearances in front of the media; hundreds of journalists searching in vain for an Election-related story remotely interesting to them and indeed their [...]

May 19, 2017 // 0 Comments

Wittering on …

My regular readers will no doubt have been missing the incisive Campion-Brown views upon the progress of the General Election but, as I have explained at some length to my editor, whilst I have been following events with my usual day-by-day concentration, I’ve become bored by it and having little [...]

May 16, 2017 // 0 Comments

Future to the back

Perhaps comic Frankie Howard’s most famous catch-phrase (I recall it most often in the context of his vehicle Up Pompeii!) was a staged aside protest to his audience as they were laughing at a previous insult/gag he’d just cracked about some hapless fellow character: “No don’t – [...]

May 3, 2017 // 0 Comments

Under starter’s order … and they’re off!

And so here we go again – another UK General Election, this time on 8th June. For an avid veteran politician-watcher such as myself there is no such thing as whatever-that-woman-from-Bristol’s-name-was (that gave an exasperated ‘You’ve got to be kidding me!” type reaction to a media [...]

April 20, 2017 // 0 Comments

Reaching for the button …

It’s good to know that, contrary to popular belief, the UK Government has long been planning for all contingencies arising from geo-political developments such as a Russian invasion or a Brexit. Here’s a report by Adam Lusher on how Mrs May and her Cabinet might be able to resolve not [...]

April 4, 2017 // 0 Comments

A guilty pleasure that sometimes delivers the goods

In liberal circles (with a small ‘L’) and among those of us who regard it as no more than a right-wing/middle class version of the Red-top tabloid British rags, the Daily Mail had a reputation – to adapt Prince Philip’s famous dismissal of the Daily Express – as [...]

April 4, 2017 // 0 Comments

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