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The art of scoring an own goal

Yesterday a little after lunch, at a loose end and completely by chance, I had Sky News playing on the television in the corner of my room whilst tootling around on the internet on my computer when – out of the blue – anchor presenter Kay Burley suddenly announced that coverage was crossing [...]

October 19, 2017 // 0 Comments

A chip off the old block

Nature or nurture? It’s an issue that arises whenever fans discuss the physical and mental attributes that go to make an elite sporting superstar. Almost certainly the answer is somewhere along the spectrum of ‘a bit of both’, as witness the ’10,000 hours’ rule that Matthew Syed, [...]

October 17, 2017 // 0 Comments

We’re all in this together

One of the topics of the moment in Parliament and the media is that of old people and the issues that surround them. I’m talking about such as national pensions, at what age people become eligible for them, the ever-growing number of senior citizens in the population (due to increasing longevity [...]

October 16, 2017 // 0 Comments

Quins enter Europe and possibly leave it as well

Saturday 14th October 2017: European Rugby Champions Cup 2017/2018: Pool1 (Ulster, La Rochelle, Wasps, Harlequins): Round 1 match – Harlequins v La Rochelle at the Stoop, kick off 5.30pm: Result – Harlequins 27 La Rochelle 34. I watched this game from the sanctuary of my flat live on [...]

October 14, 2017 // 0 Comments

In the blink of an eye

Yesterday I took a train into the West End of London in order to attend an occasional but serial lunch organised by a pal – serial in the respect that they occur two or three times per year and none of the guests ever know in advance who is going to be there, other than everyone will be known to [...]

October 14, 2017 // 0 Comments

What we knew then and now

The biggest media story of the moment is that of the rise and fall of 65 year old movie mogul Harvey Weinstein – well, not so much about his rise to being one of the most powerful men in Hollywood for more than two decades, but his spectacular fall from grace over his predatory sexual behaviour. [...]

October 12, 2017 // 0 Comments

What is … and what isn’t … so

My subject today is a wide one – I am trying to cover various aspects of race, racial discrimination, inequality in life chances – all from the stance that it is (and/or would be) a ‘good thing’ if everyone in life succeeded according to their potential, talent, personal ambition (drive) [...]

October 11, 2017 // 0 Comments

Hold the phone!

Call the quack. I’m reporting myself for a ginormous ‘senior moment’ overnight and am beginning to feel that those snivelling turncoats and junior family members who have been chipping away at my confidence and sanity by regularly telling me I need to go for a cognitive [...]

October 10, 2017 // 0 Comments

Going downhill?

In the Rust tradition of bringing our readers’ attention to items of specific or general interest, here are a pair of Sean Ingle articles upon the state of British bobsleighing, as appear today on the website of The Guardian: Reviewing the raft of current issues facing the British [...]

October 10, 2017 // 0 Comments

You read it here first!

They say that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery … or maybe it is just that at last the long-held Campion-Brown view of the Brit Establishment gaining some adherents. Here’s an opinion piece by Quentin Letts that I spotted today on the website of the – DAILY [...]

October 7, 2017 // 0 Comments

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