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What happens when you turn your back …

Having returned from my luxury three-week river cruise down the Danube, during which my iPad broke down and I couldn’t be bothered to seek out alternative means of keeping in touch with world events, still less those occurring at the Rust, I was somewhat surprised to discover that ‘the [...]

June 26, 2017 // 0 Comments

Modern life

Although occasions when your author ejects a mouthful’s worth of his breakfast cereal across the room first thing in the morning are thankfully as rare as hen’s teeth, I have to record that one such occurred yesterday shortly after my butler had brought me my copy of The Times newspaper. [...]

June 23, 2017 // 0 Comments

Treating triumph and disaster just the same

Yesterday I travelled to the Pre-Operation Assessment centre at the hospital where I had my hip replacement operation last year, having been requested to do so in order to take further part in the research project which I had consented to join shortly before my operation took place. Regular readers [...]

June 22, 2017 // 0 Comments

The Road to Damascus

Old people – and I am one – who needs them, huh? Before the pedants among you get out your New Testaments and quote the story about the desirability of taking the beam out of your own eye before taking the mote of someone else’s [at first I wasn’t going to look the reference up, but then I [...]

June 22, 2017 // 0 Comments

There’s always next time!

From time to time upon these pages I have extemporised upon the subject of parenthood in the context of the illogical ability of human beings to cling to the absurdity that they are eternally youthful – e.g. my father commenting that his ability to flirt was undermined anytime he was forced to [...]

June 19, 2017 // 0 Comments

Second up …

I warned Rust readers that I’d be drawing their attention to the ongoing series of articles about the future of sport. Here’s a link to the second in the sequence – THE [...]

June 16, 2017 // 0 Comments

The lottery of Life

When Camelot first won the franchise to run the UK Lottery in 1994 [I’ve just googled the date: the first-ever lottery took place in November of that year and Camelot was re-awarded the franchise in 2001 and 2007 with the current franchise period running from 2009 to 2019], along with just about [...]

June 16, 2017 // 0 Comments

Is this one too far?

Some think we on the Rust have a fetish about sporting debates. It’s not quite true, but there are certainly a number of issues around which sporting purity, fairness, integrity and principle (on the one hand) wrestle with expediency, power, corruption, influence and commercial imperatives [...]

June 16, 2017 // 0 Comments

Beliefs and practicalities

The unexpected resignation of Tim Farron as leader of the Lib-Dems last night is a development worthy of being remarked upon because it brings into sharp focus the eternal inner dilemmas that can sometimes face members of the political class – I’m talking about the potential inconsistencies, [...]

June 15, 2017 // 0 Comments

A small comfort perhaps, but some things never change

Here’s a modern tale. About two months ago I decided to do something about the lights in the front room of my flat. I had two issues with them: One of the lights in one of the two-knocked-through-together-now-open-plan room(s) was not working at all, and – in the other former room – [...]

June 13, 2017 // 0 Comments

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