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Waiting for something

The ironies are running thick and deep as the United Kingdom continues its trajectory through what Fleet Street traditionally calls “the silly season” (when no news is actually happening and – back in the day during any given August – ITN used to end its bulletins with fillers such [...]

August 11, 2019 // 0 Comments

Fighting against the odds

In its observations upon the 21st Century the Rust community regularly reports upon the travails faced by senior citizens in coping with the modern world, not least the manner in which younger generations seem to be able to assimilate the blizzard of new ‘facilitating’ technological solutions [...]

August 7, 2019 // 0 Comments

Up and down, up and down

Although not part of the Olympic cycle, the summer of 2019 has already provided a positive glut of sporting excellence and entertainment and there is plenty more to come, not least the commencement of the 2019/2020 Premier League season and the Rugby World Cup in Japan. I cannot personally claim to [...]

August 6, 2019 // 0 Comments

Change is always gonna come

Reflecting upon my sports-watching over the weekend, together with reviewing other developments, it occurred to me that we are currently in an era of great and far-reaching changes right across the spectrum of elite sport and – sitting on the sidelines as most of us do – we may as well prepare [...]

August 5, 2019 // 0 Comments

Getting through the day

Part of the trouble with monitoring the world’s media for matters impacting upon or potentially affecting those of us over a certain age can, of course, be the occasional confusion or puzzlement the practice can induce. Recently I have come across a couple of items which hopefully may be of [...]

August 4, 2019 // 0 Comments

Another day at the coalface

Here comes a tale of modern times. In March of last year – don’t laugh – I was burgled whilst having my afternoon nap in my flat. The facts are relatively simple if almost unbelievable. I had arrived home from a barely alcohol-driven lunch in central London and, because as usual I had been up [...]

August 1, 2019 // 0 Comments

Latest on the history frontier

Under the Rust’s service of bringing world developments to those of its readers who may be too busy, distracted or ga-ga to come across them under their own steam, today we offer the following:-   THE MOON For those of us who were pleased and indeed perhaps nostalgic to be reminded recently [...]

July 31, 2019 // 0 Comments

Looking forward

For anyone ‘beyond a certain age’ the modern world presents a never-ending series of challenges. Various contributors to the organ over the years have described their experiences of having the rules that once governed the world as they knew it when they were growing up (and then tried to live [...]

July 29, 2019 // 0 Comments

Sport, money and television

“There’s nowt so queer as folk …” is (and I’ve just looked this up) an old idiom from either Yorkshire or Lancashire and probably comes from the same stable as “There’s always someone worse off than yerself …”. Be that as it may, I was reminded of it overnight as I saw a report in [...]

July 28, 2019 // 0 Comments

Another day before the mast

In one form or another it was perhaps ever thus, but the fact is that the modern world and its media are full of reports and stories covering the vagaries and random challenges thrown up by life ‘as it is’ and as others experience it. For every disability, condition, disease or affliction that [...]

July 27, 2019 // 0 Comments

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