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Report from the front line …

Hello. I haven’t troubled the scorers in the ongoing unofficial Rust contributors ‘most prolific poster’ competition for a while. Nevertheless, I am happy to return to the fray this morning, hard on the heels of the news that Jo Pavey, the 47 year old middle distance runner, will be [...]

May 15, 2020 // 0 Comments

Sad and inconvenient truths

Life, as an elderly uncle commented the other day, joshing me gently with a black-humoured chuckle, is a terminal disease. The notion is not incompatible with the principle that all lives are equally important. Amidst the continuing media storm over the Government’s handling of the [...]

May 15, 2020 // 0 Comments

Cyclists – a national pest

A common theme amongst us Rusters is our dislike of cyclists. Yesterday morning I was walking alongside the sea on a wide pavement by the main coastal road. At great speed a  Cyclist came hurtling towards me. With an imperious wave he motioned me to walk 2 metres away from him. It’s bad enough a [...]

May 13, 2020 // 0 Comments

Nothing to write home about, as usual

For my sins, last night I watched Boris’ Speech to the Nation on BBC One at 7.00pm and the the Huw Edwards-anchored BBC News Special that followed. Long-suffering Rusters will be aware of my overwhelming cynicism towards politicians, which extends to the view that Boris is not Premier material [...]

May 11, 2020 // 0 Comments

Hysteria has pulled into town

Last weekend – from personal experience – I found myself drawing inexorably towards the view that the British public had either gone mad and/or, fuelled by boredom, frustration and perhaps a sense of “Oh, what the hell …?”, had begun to ignore the Government’s “Stay Home, Protect the [...]

May 10, 2020 // 0 Comments

Taking stock but always in vain

When the time comes to look back over the course of UK’s coronavirus crisis – and possibly the world’s too – one aspect that will need examining in depth is the general degree of public semi-madness, concern and anxiety generated by the endless amounts of rumour, speculation, fantasy, [...]

May 5, 2020 // 0 Comments

VE-Day commemorations and something quite different

With the 75th anniversary of VE Day coming up on Friday (8th May) I had in advance ‘scheduled for recording’ last night’s 8.00pm offering on Channel Four of VE Day in Colour – Britain’s Biggest Party but then watched it as it went out anyway. As it happens I found its mix of colour and [...]

May 4, 2020 // 0 Comments

It’s all going a bit weird

When I went out for my one per day exercise walk yesterday I was both surprised and dismayed by what I came across – and that’s allowing for the fact that it was early afternoon, possibly a peak time for others to be doing similar. To be blunt it was as if I’d been asleep for a month, there [...]

May 3, 2020 // 0 Comments

A man on a mission

Michael (Lord) Ashcroft, 74, is a British born entrepreneur/businessman estimated in March 2020 to be worth £1.7 billion and a man of many parts. He officially lives ‘off shore’, retains dual citizenship with Britain and Belize, and his tax status has been a source of controversy most [...]

May 3, 2020 // 0 Comments

Hancock’s half hour

The ridiculous controversy over Secretary of State for Health and Social Care Matt Hancock’s highly ambitious announcement that the Government would be doing 100,000 coronavirus tests per day by 30th April – and specifically as to whether the Government had achieved its target or not when the [...]

May 2, 2020 // 0 Comments

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