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The sleeping giant awakes

At the clear and present risk of disappearing up my own fundament, today I am reporting upon the round of golf I played yesterday at the Surrey National golf course not far from either the M25 and the leafy suburbs of the concrete jungle that is Croydon or indeed the dormitory town where I lived [...]

August 9, 2017 // 0 Comments

When one door shuts another opens

Am I alone in thinking that this week’s news, courtesy of the Institute of Economic Affairs who should know a bit about such things, that – far from worrying about the costs of setting up and delivering comprehensive NHS treatments for all our friends who smoke, drink and eat far too much, as [...]

August 8, 2017 // 0 Comments

On London – and Bolt reaching the finishing line

Since last Friday evening from time to time I have dipped in to the BBC television coverage of the 2017 Athletics World Championships being staged at the former London 2012 Olympic Stadium, now renamed the London Stadium and primarily used as the home venue of the Premiership soccer team West Ham [...]

August 7, 2017 // 0 Comments

It’s in the telling …

There is – as Northern Irish comic Frank Carson was wont to ruminate – something in the way jokes are told that makes them funny, or is that makes them funnier, or indeed less so, depending (of course) upon the skill and timing of the teller. For my part, I don’t regard myself as a naturally [...]

August 6, 2017 // 0 Comments

The effects of the First (or Great) World War

There is little doubt that the nation’s fascination with all matters relating to WW1 will continue for centuries. The reasons for this are bound up in such issues its status as a major milestone on human society’s perhaps inevitable route to potential self-annihilation; the fact that [...]

August 6, 2017 // 0 Comments

The important (only) thing is getting there

Yesterday I attended a military services reunion function with my father – as, it were, his ‘wingman’ and supporter. In all honesty, I had no personal right to be there, my sole connection with matters military being confined to unwilling participation in my school’s combined cadet force [...]

August 5, 2017 // 0 Comments

Spoiling a good walk

In twenty-five days’ time Bernhard Langer will turn sixty years of age. About a week ago he won a record tenth title on the PGA Tour by annexing the Senior PGA Championship, eclipsing the nine won by Gary Player, who will be 82 in November. It’s all right for some – but this much I know. [...]

August 2, 2017 // 0 Comments

A storm in a tea cup?

Today a brief comment upon the current media furore arising in advance of the forthcoming Channel Four programme alleged to feature taped conversations between Diana, Princess of Wales, and her voice coach Peter Settelen. As I awoke overnight I happened to catch a phone-in section of the Stephen [...]

July 31, 2017 // 0 Comments

What’s a chap got to do?

Arguably, there’s a certain in-built irony even in the themes that statistically most concern Rust contributors upon a regular basis. The Conservative and Unionist Party (or ‘Tories’) basically appeals to those – generally the older generations – who, under the guise of pretending to [...]

July 30, 2017 // 0 Comments

A July sporting round-up

This morning, for the second day running, I awoke and spent the morning going about my usual business whilst feeling rather ‘empty’ and hard done by. Fortunately I didn’t need to be Einstein to work out why. After Wimbledon followed by the sporting extravaganza that was the back end of last [...]

July 26, 2017 // 0 Comments

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