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Admitting what you’re thinking

A confession. Yesterday I was watching the television reports of the three schoolgirls from Bethnal Green Academy in Tower Hamlets – apparently their headmaster says that there is no evidence they were radicalised by anything related to his establishment, meanwhile some pundits are attacking [...]

February 24, 2015 // 0 Comments

Worth a read

Having acknowledged that anyone begins a piece with the words ‘Don’t get me wrong, …’ runs the risk of falling foul of the quotation from Shakespeare’s Hamlet ‘The lady doth protest too much, methinks …’ and/or the natural cynicism that accompanies [...]

January 31, 2015 // 0 Comments

What triumph is this?

So The Sun has quietly dropped its Page 3 topless model shots and I spent much of my yesterday being presented with female MPs, campaigners and celebrities on television and radio meowing in triumph at the demise of this iconic symbol of male chauvinism and tendency to treat women as objects, not [...]

January 21, 2015 // 0 Comments

Food for thought

In the wake of the Parisian Charlie Hebdo and Jewish supermarket Jihadist massacres/shootouts and the demonstration rallies in France yesterday, both ‘serious’ journalism and social media are awash with a wide range of conflicting opinions as to what happened and why, and how the [...]

January 12, 2015 // 0 Comments

Freedom and balls

Even as I type this at 10.45am on Friday 9th January, the apparent final end to the pursuit of the Jihadists who carried out the Charlie Hebdo massacre is playing out in the north-east suburbs of Paris in France. These are very difficult times for amateur bloggers such as myself the world over. [...]

January 9, 2015 // 0 Comments

… and there’s plenty more to come

I guess we all conspire to contribute to the things we like to protest about. With the General Election just over four months away, the politicians have been hitting the airwaves. The broadcasters have been only too willingly to give them airtime because this is the one medium-term story that is [...]

January 7, 2015 // 0 Comments

Some people need to grow up

Apparently the news that Formula One motor racing champion Lewis Hamilton was anointed as the BBC Sports Personality Of The Year last weekend has caused a bit of a hoo-hah. There are a number of professional golfers (professional and otherwise), plus golfing and other sports journalists who, some [...]

December 16, 2014 // 0 Comments

The saga continues

We at the National Rust make no apology for our continuing interest in the use of performing-enhancing drugs in sport. At this moment in time there are hard-hitting stories brewing about cycling [Wow! Quelle surprise!] and two recent German television documentaries alleging that a household-name [...]

December 11, 2014 // 0 Comments

A mass of contradictions

One of comedian Frankie Howard’s much-loved catch-phrases [used conspiratorially to his audience, whether it was in a theatre or at home watching on television] was “No, don’t laugh – it’s wicked to mock the afflicted …” and I’m somewhat reluctant to invoke it here when [...]

December 10, 2014 // 0 Comments

Whatever happened to British Justice?

I always remember a conversation with my father even though it must have taken place over fifty years ago. He was considering emigration to the United States but one of the factors that made us stay in the United Kingdom was his admiration for British justice.  At around the same time I also [...]

November 19, 2014 // 0 Comments

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