Farewell to Motty (eventually)
Spotted today upon the website of – THE [...]
Britain
Peering into the future
It’s a funny old place, this 21st Century, politically-correct, equal opportunity driven, gender neutral or fluid (whichever it is, I’m getting confused these days) world we live in. The latest retailer to fall foul of the do-gooders – or is it ‘game changers’? – is John Lewis, [...]
Mills uncovered (?)
If you were a sports-mad young kid in the 1950s and early 1960s (as I was) and to some degree or another you followed the sport of boxing, the all-action lifestyle of British boxer Freddie Mills – who occasionally also appeared on kids’ TV programmes as a ‘one size fits all’ [...]
Tory pickle
Arguably it is both a heartening sign of inner strength and humility to admit that others are your equals or betters. Which is why here on the Rust – commenting as I do upon politics – I tend to leave ‘front line reporting and analysis’ to those who have made the trade a [...]
Proms debut
Here’s a worthy piece that appears upon the website of The Guardian today – an article by former Labour politician Alan Johnson about his first ever visit(s) to the Proms, see here – THE [...]
It all started with a Big Bang!
Despite the many issues the sport of rugby union in England is wrestling with – the plan to impose a ‘unified’ global season, new rules for the new season, a still-developing set of concussion (head injury) protocols, the rows over the salary cap and the latest Premiership plan to ‘kill [...]
And so it comes to this (again)
Even though politics rarely makes it to the top of the agenda, sometimes I feel that the lads who frequent the corner table beside the fireplace in the saloon bar of my local pub accurately represent the views of Mr Joe Public, the average Brit elector. They don’t trust politicians, period. They [...]
Dragging oneself to the start-line …
As my regular followers will know, I am now freed from the tyranny of season ticket holding and any obligation to actually roll up at the Stoop to watch the boys playing rugby – and what a relief that has been! Furthermore – and this would have applied anyway – in no way have I been [...]
Going out in the rain
I don’t know if anyone else noticed, but yesterday chez moi was the occasion of a sudden break in the weather. Gone was the scorching heat and sunshine of the Bank Holiday Weekend, replaced by a distinctly colder temperature and steady rain which, after a slow start, persisted for most of the [...]
Facing up to it
The other day I was having a conversation with a colleague when the subject of mental health among sportsmen and women came up. As our chat developed, we agreed that somehow – for whatever reason(s) – this seemed to be an issue that appeared to afflict players of cricket at least as [...]