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A churchyard matter

Last week my father told me when I was down for a visit that the grave of his sister, who died last September aged 94, was in a state of some disrepair in a nearby churchyard – he knew this because he’d recently visited it in the company of my brother. Yesterday, having completely a food shop [...]

March 10, 2017 // 0 Comments

Snore-fest Phil

Pardon me for straying onto territory usually covered by others on the editorial team of this esteemed organ, but yesterday I decided to stay indoors from 11.30am specifically in order to watch Prime Minister’s Question Time from the House of Commons, followed by Philip Hammond, Chancellor of the [...]

March 9, 2017 // 0 Comments

What can you believe these days? Anything you like …

We were having an informal editorial conference the other day over a very pleasant meal in a West End restaurant when out of the blue I aired the proposition that the Rust should declare itself a Trump-free organ, at least for a six-month trial period. Well, at least I received a polite hearing. My [...]

March 7, 2017 // 0 Comments

One I didn’t see or even hear

Saturday 4th March: Aviva Premiership Round 17; Gloucester v Harlequins at Kingsholm:  Result – Gloucester 27 Harlequins 30, Gloucester 0 league points, Harlequins 5 (1 four-try bonus point). Gloucester now 9th in table on 35 points, Harlequins 7th on 42. As per this column’s avowed policy, I [...]

March 5, 2017 // 0 Comments

Not the best telly I’ve seen this week

It must be because of the forthcoming May local elections, but twice this week I’ve had the television on in the background tuned to the BBC News at Six, following by the local BBC London News, and consequently at 6.55pm, completely by chance, have caught the latest Tory and Labour party [...]

March 3, 2017 // 0 Comments

The whiff of rotting fish

For organisations such as British Cycling and Team Sky – who have both wallowed in the reflected glory of their supposed legendary attention to detail, pursuit of ‘marginal gains’ and savvy media relations all based around their avowed core principle of seeking to be a beacon of [...]

March 2, 2017 // 0 Comments

A worthy read

Occasionally in this life you has to acknowledge the amateur’s humble truth, an echo of that tried-and-trusted peddled by businessmen and careerists (“People who can, do – people who can’t, teach”), i.e. there are some operating in your area of special hobby interest [...]

February 26, 2017 // 0 Comments

Oooops!

We recently featured a short piece on UK Sport’s refusal to change its mind on the appeals over its Olympics sports-funding policy decisions in which, given the limited resources at hand, the gap between national priorities – medal-winning versus general population sports participation [...]

February 24, 2017 // 0 Comments

Why can’t I be left alone to be ancient and normal?

Every time the subject of sex is raised I know before I begin airing my opinions that I’m going to cop flak for coming across like an old fuddy-duddy. I’m therefore torn between resignedly just bowing to the inevitable, trying to deflect the incoming by admitting the charges before the [...]

February 21, 2017 // 0 Comments

Brexit grumbles

Okay, let us agree that the world has gone completely mad and that we’re living in a parallel universe in the fifth dimension somewhere on the other side of the universe, inside the black hole that the Solar System was sucked into around the time that someone persuaded Prime Minister David [...]

February 20, 2017 // 0 Comments

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