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On The Road Again*

[* = with apologies to the American band Canned Heat] Saturday 18th February: Aviva Premiership Round 15: Bath Rugby v Harlequins at The Rec; Result – Bath Rugby 22 Harlequins 12: Bath Rugby 4 league points, Harlequins 0 league points. So that’s it, then. Harlequins remain one of the most [...]

February 19, 2017 // 0 Comments

Dentistry and cars

Yesterday I was in the absurd position of having to give up a day of my life in order to spend seven hours travelling to the south coast essentially to take my elderly father to a half-hour appointment at his local dentist. This state of affairs had arisen because – although we had specified to [...]

February 18, 2017 // 0 Comments

What men don’t understand

Inevitably upon a daily basis there is a ton of stuff in the media of doubtful use to anyone, but just occasionally something comes along and makes me laugh (nearly out loud). Which is why I’m sharing it with Rust readers today – DAILY [...]

February 18, 2017 // 0 Comments

A Lott to talk about

Sometimes one comes across a piece in the media that is so deep-felt and searingly honest, so potentially self-lacerating and ‘out there’, that you cannot help but feel sympathy for both the author and the other parties involved. Here’s one I came across today on the website of [...]

February 18, 2017 // 0 Comments

The Trump effect

One columnist whose pieces I always find worth reading – though I don’t necessarily agree with them – is Patrick Cockburn who currently pens his most often for The Independent. Here’s a link to the one that appears on the website of said newspaper today, discussing press [...]

February 18, 2017 // 0 Comments

Whoops!

Over the last couple of years the world seems to have gradually divorced itself from rationality, order and even reality. Is it pompous to suggest that much of human development results from a clash of ‘preserving what we cherish’ (conservatism with a small ‘C’) and by lobbying, protesting [...]

February 17, 2017 // 0 Comments

Press and responsibility

I don’t know where we are on the second part of the Leveson Inquiry – is it going ahead or not? My impression was that – after all the shenanigans, hoo-haa, ridicule and celebrity interventions that had attached themselves to the first part – even Lord Justice Leveson had [...]

February 14, 2017 // 0 Comments

Time for an old chestnut

We all know that, when someone enters – or indeed re-joins – a debate with the opening words “With respect …” almost certainly they’re actually about to either damn with faint praise or else launch into a vicious rebuttal of the previous speaker’s point or position. Even allowing for [...]

February 13, 2017 // 0 Comments

A memorable lunch

Yesterday my brother and I took our father for a visit to where he and his parents used to live in south London between about 1932 and 1939, this before going on for lunch with one of his oldest remaining pals, with whom he had been a prep school before the start of WW2. As is the nature of life [...]

February 8, 2017 // 0 Comments

Coming home to roost

Yesterday as per normal I spent my morning in my favourite arm chair surrounded by the Sunday newspapers and watching BBC1 – viz. The Andrew Marr Show, Nicky Campbell’s The Big Questions and Andrew Neil’s Sunday Politics. It’s a habit that’s hard to break. Something struck me as Nicky [...]

February 6, 2017 // 0 Comments

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