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Hmmmnnn …

Pardon me for being mischievous but, having read this story on the website of The Independent this morning, I’ve been trying to work out whether it is just a piece of factual reporting … or, alternatively, an outrageous piece of Remain propaganda being put out by some sore loser still [...]

July 8, 2016 // 0 Comments

Chilcot reaction

The publication yesterday of the 2.6 million word (twelve volume) Chilcot Report presented something of a challenge for an organ such as the Rust. Regular readers will be familiar with our standard approach to current and sporting events – viz. that we tend to avoid straight journalistic [...]

July 7, 2016 // 0 Comments

Round and round we go

Last night I watched a report by Adrian Chiles for the BBC1 current affairs programme Panorama on the subject of those who had voted for Brexit in the EU Referendum. For some people Chiles is a ‘Marmite’ broadcaster, but personally I quite like his often perceptive questioning coming, as it [...]

July 5, 2016 // 0 Comments

Another lost weekend

After another Sunday morning spent in my favourite armchair flicking through the newspapers with BBC1’s The Andrew Marr Show and then Sunday Politics playing on the television in the corner of the room I suppose I should feel ashamed of myself but actually don’t. ‘Rubber-necking’ is what I [...]

July 4, 2016 // 0 Comments

Dropping the pilot

I read in the media this morning that, once it became clear that Remain has lost the EU Referendum, David Cameron decided upon – and would not be dissuaded from – resigning as Prime Minister for two reasons: (1) he instinctively recoiled from staying on in order to negotiate an EU [...]

July 2, 2016 // 0 Comments

Curious and curiouser

Sometimes you come across something in the world that stops you in your tracks and makes you wonder. I experienced an example this morning when perusing the website of The Guardian newspaper. In principle we’re all in favour of the freedom – and indeed the diversity – of the [...]

July 1, 2016 // 0 Comments

View from the bunker

There exist theories that reality is a dream and vice versa; that there is a parallel universe, or indeed several existing simultaneously; that time is a human concept, and only a human concept, devised to explain something else quite different but I cannot quite remember what that was; and, of [...]

July 1, 2016 // 0 Comments

More internet exasperation

On my return from Cornwall I received a letter from the Single Discount Review Team of my local council querying my single occupation. I will admit to the odd staying guest but as far as I was aware the only two occupants were and are myself and my cat. I put this in the Polly Pile for her to deal [...]

June 29, 2016 // 0 Comments

Not waving but drowning (again)

One of the issues for columnists upon an organ like the Rust is that when current affairs are as fluid, fast-moving and extraordinary as the aftermath of the Brexit vote in the UK’s EU Referendum campaign there’s not a lot of light that we can shed. Or at least, that we can shed that won’t be [...]

June 29, 2016 // 0 Comments

Politicians overboard … who will rescue them?

The fallout from the EU Referendum continues to expand like wildfire and more than one political commentator is now referring to it as not ‘one of’ but the biggest political crisis since WW2. See here for an example – Michael White writing in – THE GUARDIAN The basic problem is that it’s [...]

June 27, 2016 // 0 Comments

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