Just in

Britain

Marriages (on film and TV)

Having been married to my Rosie – or Roz as she is known – for 45 years I do give a lot of thought to long term matrimony. The best portrayal of a long marriage is that of Horace Rumpole to Hilda. The Rumpole series are shown on Talking Pictures and, irony of ironies given that the [...]

August 23, 2024 // 0 Comments

The Reunion/Radio 4

The Reunion is back on Sunday mornings. Once presented by Sue McGregor – a superb broadcaster – it’s now in the hands of Kirsty Wark. The rationale is to look back at an event and invite some of the main actors in it to discuss and review it. Yesterday’s event was the [...]

August 19, 2024 // 0 Comments

The Tanner Report: Manchester United 1 Fulham 0

That Fulham are neither mentioned as a top eight club, nor as a relegation candidate in the hype prior to the start of the Premiership, indicates that another midtable position is expected. Joao Pahlinha will be a great loss now that he has moved to Bayern but Emile Smith Rowe is an exciting [...]

August 17, 2024 // 0 Comments

Sharks & Seagulls

Sussex Sharks have lost 7/7 games in the Mertro One Day Cup a format they were the first to dominate. Personally – and I am sure I speak for many supporters – I’m not that disappointed. Some of the defeats were well-fought contests but, most importantly, we keep our powder dry for the [...]

August 16, 2024 // 0 Comments

Horace de Vere Cole

There is no better company than a real English eccentric and they do not come more eccentric than Horace de Vere Cole. From Irish aristocratic lineage, he went to Eton and Trinity College Cambridge and fought in the Boer War. He was the greatest prankster of the Edwardian age. Memorably, he [...]

August 13, 2024 // 0 Comments

Brief Encounter

In their Classic Movies series the Sky Arts film critics (Ian Nathan, Mel Norman and Steven Armstrong) reviewed Brief  Encounter, a Noel Coward and David Lean joint production. It raises the question as to whether or not a film made in 1945 is dated , a period piece or a timeless classic. Clearly [...]

August 11, 2024 // 0 Comments

Fascist lack of UK leadership

My late father was a keen observer of politics and life. Though I never knew him to read a newspaper he was always remarkably well informed. I had many interesting and informative conversations with him about growing up in Hackney in the 1930s. I asked him about the Fascist Marches. He replied that [...]

August 9, 2024 // 0 Comments

Great British failures

The failure to win gold by Team GB’s Matthew Hudson Smith was the 3rd such one after Adam Peaty and Josh Kerr. You would not have guessed it from the soft post-event interview – and now Peaty is blaming the food. He is pathetic. Footballers are overpaid but they have to put up with much [...]

August 8, 2024 // 0 Comments

Pride of Price?

Last weekend was Pride weekend which attracted 300,000 visitors to Brighton but is not universally accepted as A Good Thing by us residents. It’s impossible to cross Brighton because of road closures. The celebrants leave litter and worse, then some clog up the A & E dept as the cavorting [...]

August 7, 2024 // 0 Comments

buzzwords

The problem with buzzwords is they go out of fashion so quickly. Once “uptight” was the ‘in  word” for tense, but nowadays people are “stressed”. The currently fashionable buzzwords are “100% ” (“quite right”);  “you guys”‘ [...]

August 6, 2024 // 0 Comments

1 … 15 16 17 18 19 … 251

Copyright © 2026 The National Rust | Design by Premonition