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Just another day at the bank

My late father used to take a fairly robust attitude towards alleged corporate inefficiency, incompetence and/or poor practice which is why, whenever he came across a glaring example, he always contacted the head of the organisation concerned. He justified this practice on the basis that – in the [...]

February 22, 2020 // 0 Comments

Getting used to it …

Misconceptions are two a penny in the 21st Century world and one of them is that this organ is for old people, which is not the case at all. The Rust covers everything and anything – okay, many of its contributors are as old as the hills, but what’s wrong with that? We cannot help it, can we? I [...]

February 17, 2020 // 0 Comments

Going down to the water, but not drinking …

Being – to coin a phrase – an old age pensioner who necessarily lives somewhat hand-to-mouth, I have to confess that sometimes I have been less than sympathetic to the type of Brit who complains bitterly that they don’t have enough to live on, have to visit food banks etc. and then put the [...]

February 15, 2020 // 0 Comments

The glorious uncertainties of sport and business

One of the developing themes in our coverage human activities is the extent to which the popularity of different elite sports affects their participants’ careers, short or long, and either boosts or hinders their projected future development. Not to place too fine a point upon it, many of the [...]

February 13, 2020 // 0 Comments

A sporting conundrum

There’s one thing I’d wish to assure regular Rusters who might be labouring under a misapprehension on the point – and that is that we don’t just sit around all day in our ‘virtual editorial offices’ actively trying to dream up new subjects upon which to begin serial debates or [...]

February 9, 2020 // 0 Comments

The perils of non-surprise

When you’re my age – i.e. a stage at which most of what was once worth retaining of one’s body has already “gone south” (or missing) there’s a certain rhythm and lack of expectation to life. The prospect of being lured upstairs on the spur of the moment by an [...]

February 6, 2020 // 0 Comments

On the other hand – and indeed side of the Pond …

I’m bound to say that if we in the UK have had some weird political times since the 2016 EU Referendum, they’re nothing compared to what the United States of America has been going through since Donald Trump was elected President. “As any fule no” – to quote the legendary Nigel [...]

February 6, 2020 // 0 Comments

It Ain’t Right …

It’s funny how the modern world operates sometimes – I’m thinking of such recent phenomena as the ‘diversity’ row over at the recent BAFTA awards which even Prince William felt necessary to complain about, even though he’s President of the ruddy organisation. As an oldie, what strikes [...]

February 5, 2020 // 0 Comments

One down, four to go

Yesterday the McDonnell household – this North-of-the-Border member still reeling from “what might have beens” after Saturday’s Ireland v Scotland clash – was enlarged by one as usual: an eighty-year-old pal of my late father who traditionally watches Six Nations games with us because [...]

February 3, 2020 // 0 Comments

Contrary to what you might think …

Good morning everyone! I’m not sure whether it’s a case of ‘What goes around, comes around’ or, alternatively perhaps, a product of something specifically to do with my encroaching senility and accompanying embracing of the joys of being gradually relieved of my responsibilities for [...]

February 2, 2020 // 0 Comments

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