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What’s going on (again)

The weirdest thing about British politics is the extent to which the average punter like me (and I certainly don’t claim any personal special skill or facility for doing this) can reach conclusions about – or see blindingly obvious logic in the implications of – events that happen, or crises [...]

September 16, 2017 // 0 Comments

Grooming and relationships

On this organ we sometimes poke fun at the ways of the media – you know the sort of thing, ‘silly summer stories’, spectacular ‘fails’ going viral, and of course the time-honoured staple of madcap scientific surveys with blanket generalisations for conclusions that are either [...]

September 15, 2017 // 0 Comments

Sport – and the same old, same old …

No apologies as today I revisit two of the Rust’s favourite vexed sporting subjects, corruption and performance-enhancing drugs. THE OLYMPIC MOVEMENT Today the UK media’s ‘back pages’ – okay, European football apart – are full of reports about the IOC ceremony celebrating the award of [...]

September 14, 2017 // 0 Comments

Monday shopping nightmare

On Monday of this week I went shopping at my local well-known supermarket store. I registered that the omens were not good the moment that I drove down the driveway to the car park and spied that it was packed with cars – and so it proved. I should add here the information that (and I do not [...]

September 13, 2017 // 0 Comments

The art of earning respect

As any fule no (reference Nigel Molesworth, the fictitious character invented by Geoffrey Willians, first appearance in Down With Skool (1953), illustrations by Ronald Searle of St Trinians fame, public recitations of which by our deputy headmaster were a staple of Saturday afternoons from about [...]

September 12, 2017 // 0 Comments

Back in the groove

Saturday 9th September 2017: Rugby Premiership: Harlequins v Gloucester at the Stoop (crowd just under 13,000). Result: Harlequins win 28-17. After two rounds of the league, Quins are now – one win, one loss – in sixth position and Gloucester in seventh. This was a heartening and much-needed [...]

September 10, 2017 // 0 Comments

Records are only records

Comparing great sportsmen of different eras is a parlour game that all sports fans have indulged in from time to time – and will do as long as sport remains a human pastime. It’s sometimes held to be the case that statistics cannot lie, but then you have to check out which statistics you’re [...]

September 9, 2017 // 0 Comments

Stirring the pot Morgan-style

For good or ill, the rather irritating former editor of the Daily Mirror and now all-round ‘shock jock’ celebrity/personality Piers Morgan is currently providing some of the best current affairs entertainment on his several times a week gig – usually partnering former BBC presenter Susannah [...]

September 8, 2017 // 0 Comments

It’s coming to us all

Yesterday I went to see my father’s GP – as it were, behind his back – but in fact by arrangement and taking with me a letter I’d drafted (signed by him) stating that he gave me authority to speak with doctors and similar about his confidential medical information as and where [...]

September 7, 2017 // 0 Comments

Picking your way through a minefield

For those Rusters who are either mad about watching sport on television and/or are miffed by the fact that – on the face of it – they may seem always to be paying through the nose for the privilege of watching say 25 TV channels maximum via the broadcasting organisations deliberately [...]

September 6, 2017 // 0 Comments

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