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Keeping the flame alive

I don’t know for sure but I suspect that a proportion of the Rust’s estimated 875,000 daily readers would agree with me in occasionally becoming tired and frustrated at the incessant complaints of some of our most prolific columnists about the modern world and the way that technology and [...]

January 19, 2017 // 0 Comments

Reunion meal

Yesterday I travelled into central London for lunch with a pal and some of his mates, all of them alumni of the same school. There was a certain novelty to the expedition because I’m now about a decade past the time I last commuted into the metropolis and it was fascinating – if you see what I [...]

January 14, 2017 // 0 Comments

Fasten your seat-belts!

A confession. This morning when I came to the computer  I had originally considered apologising for returning to this subject again so soon but then I had second thoughts. Why on earth should I worry, if nobody else isn’t? After all the bizarreness of the world news hit us in 2016, there’s [...]

January 12, 2017 // 0 Comments

Twelve more months

After what might be regarded as the ‘traumas’ of 2016 suffered by the world of Western politics generally, it has been predicted by a number of pundits, commentators and indeed some politicians themselves that we’re going to be in for a pretty rough ride over the next twelve months. One [...]

January 10, 2017 // 0 Comments

Fitness regime (Week One)

Although it has been only six days since I began my new fitness campaign, I deliberately weighed in yesterday because it was a Monday and (for me, like most people) the first day of a new week. Thirteen stone ten, which means I have lost just two pounds. To remind you of the basics – food (and [...]

January 10, 2017 // 0 Comments

What they did next (continued)

Back in the day – that’s my day, not anyone’s born after 1975 – one didn’t give much thought to what footballers did with their lives after they retired from the game. I suppose in my mind’s eye I imagined that things didn’t change much for those in the era before mine (think Tom [...]

January 9, 2017 // 0 Comments

A new (old) business idea

Whilst we await President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration in about ten days or so’s time (and, on current form, presumably the end of human civilisation as we know it about a week later), it occurred to me that we ought to be sharing some of our hopes and fears for 2017. For the past few [...]

January 7, 2017 // 0 Comments

The art of ‘making up your own rules’

One of the great things about the Rust – and it took a while to dawn upon me – is our laissez-faire editorial policy. When I first joined I found it all rather disconcerting. Indeed I found I wasn’t by any means the only correspondent who had initially felt it that represented [...]

January 7, 2017 // 0 Comments

You could have knocked me down with a feather

Today I shall be venturing a little beyond my remit for my first post of the New Year. Perhaps due to the blizzard of family activities, the McDonnell household has been full of chaos in recent times and – with not least my own catering duties to the fore – I have necessarily been distracted [...]

January 3, 2017 // 0 Comments

Nothing to write home about

1st January 2017: Aviva Premiership: Worcester Warriors v Harlequins at Sixways: Result – Worcester Warriors 24 Harlequins 17. This season I made a commitment (on a personal level not as regards my editors on the Rust) to report on every Harlequins game. The truth is that I did not follow this [...]

January 2, 2017 // 0 Comments

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