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An expedition into town

Yesterday I went on my first trip to central London in about five months for a lunch. Courtesy of my old age pensioners’ free whatever-it’s-called travel card I travelled by rail to Waterloo and thence by the Northern Line to Tottenham Court Road, scene of one of my former working haunts. The [...]

May 10, 2017 // 0 Comments

Strange times and indeed a strange world

Yesterday (7th May) I followed my habitual Sunday morning routine of watching the Andrew Marr Show on BBC1 from 9.00am followed immediately by Nicky Campbell’s weekly audience debate show The Big Questions an hour later – whilst flicking through The Sunday Times, The Sunday Telegraph and the [...]

May 8, 2017 // 0 Comments

Voting issues

For several years on this website I have bored readers with my resolutely negative view of Western democratic political elites – not least those of all parties within the UK version – because of their patronising attitude towards the voting electorate. I’ve even suggested that anyone [...]

May 5, 2017 // 0 Comments

A high-achiever and natural communicator

This is either going to be a ‘first’ for the Rust … or a complete waste of time. I say that with a degree of confidence because, as a ‘Gold Star’ winning technophobe, I have not the faintest idea as to whether what I am about to attempt will work … Let me [...]

May 4, 2017 // 0 Comments

Future to the back

Perhaps comic Frankie Howard’s most famous catch-phrase (I recall it most often in the context of his vehicle Up Pompeii!) was a staged aside protest to his audience as they were laughing at a previous insult/gag he’d just cracked about some hapless fellow character: “No don’t – [...]

May 3, 2017 // 0 Comments

Getting ready to rumble

Just before lunchtime yesterday I decided to purchase my cable company’s pay-per-view offering of live coverage of the super-fight boxing bill featuring as its main event the world heavyweight championship bout between Britain’s supposed novice but greatly-hyped 27 year old Anthony Joshua and [...]

April 30, 2017 // 0 Comments

A evening of stirring farewells in south-west London

Aviva Premiership Round 21: Harlequins v Wasps at the Stoop: Result – Harlequins 32 Wasps 13: Harlequins 4 points, Wasps 0: League positions – Wasps 1st (79 points, 5 ahead of second placed Exeter Chiefs who have played one less match, Harlequins 6th (51 points, 3 ahead of seventh-placed [...]

April 29, 2017 // 0 Comments

Now the fun begins

As a self-professed cynic I sometimes get accused by readers of not taking politics seriously enough in the context of world affairs and the nation’s future etc., but I cannot help that. My area of special interest is the ‘game’ and its procedures rather than the respective party policies and [...]

April 26, 2017 // 0 Comments

A new business opportunity

This one comes straight from the “You couldn’t make it up” genre of newspaper website stories but, in case Rust readers have missed it on their daily trawl of the internet, today I really did feel the need to draw their attention to this recent story on the imminent arrival of the concept of [...]

April 25, 2017 // 0 Comments

Slipping on a banana skin?

We’ve had Donald Trump being elected US President, the announcement of a UK General Election on 8th June, Emmanuel Macron (who started his own political party only a year ago) now installed as heavy favourite to become the President of French next month – how could the world get any weirder [...]

April 25, 2017 // 0 Comments

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