Just in

Britain

The secret of male attractiveness

Everyone knows the allegedly true story – recounted by the man himself on a TV chat show, if my memory serves – of the time that a middle-aged male hotel employee brought some element of room service up to footballer George Best’s room and, surveying the evidence of what had plainly been an [...]

December 8, 2016 // 0 Comments

A worrying place to be?

These days – with the internet being a law unto itself and social media spreading truths, half-truths and wild speculation like wildfire – it is easy to become (or seem to become) a Jeremiah crying ‘Wolf!’ at the slightest issue or problem. Nevertheless, taken as a whole, developments [...]

December 7, 2016 // 0 Comments

Another day goes by

Yesterday I spent a good deal of my waking hours ruminating upon the passage of time and the way the world was going – as one tends to occasionally when one has reached the advanced age that I have and life increasingly seems to be hurtling onwards in an increasingly frenzied and bewildering [...]

December 2, 2016 // 0 Comments

Park your indignation and simply wallow in it

It’s that time of year again. This week has seen the publication of the shortlist (or is it nominees?) for the BBC Sports Personality Of The Year charade that takes place every December and already we’ve got a raft of holier-than-thou journalists, representatives of B-list sports and inevitably [...]

November 30, 2016 // 0 Comments

Aha! At last I think I’m ‘getting’ it …

Let me explain how you – okay, what I really mean is I – can hold two on-the face-of-it completely contradictory political views at the same time. It’s as simple as this. Firstly, I take the view it is a given that democracy (in its Western liberal ‘one man, one vote’ form) is a decidedly [...]

November 29, 2016 // 0 Comments

(As Marvin Gaye once warbled) What’s Going On

Much as the Establishments of the UK and EU might wish otherwise the Brexit Conundrum continues to dominate political and the news agendas across Europe and – for all I know – across large parts of the globe as well. Everything happening these days seems to come with some angle or another upon [...]

November 26, 2016 // 0 Comments

Phew! It’s tough even keeping up

We live in what can be described as ‘interesting’ times – what with Jeremy Corbyn becoming leader of the Labour Party, the EU Referendum and Brexit, Donald Trump becoming US President-elect, Mr Putin’s Russia continuing to flex its geo-political muscles and European potentially entering a [...]

November 23, 2016 // 0 Comments

The art of modern politics

There is a cute but erroneous notion going the rounds that we only let the Rust’s political columnist Simon Campion-Brown out of his box now and again for fear of alienating readers of a sensitive disposition (not least our own staffers) with some of his hairier views upon those who inhabit the [...]

November 20, 2016 // 0 Comments

An act of plucky Brit defiance hits its mark

[The events recorded in this post occurred yesterday and regular readers will be familiar with my suspicion that I am under constant surveillance by organs of the British Government in its attempt to persecute me for spurious driving offences, most particularly speeding on UK roads. For the above [...]

November 19, 2016 // 0 Comments

The art of muddling through

Today I wish to begin with four famous quotations. Whilst we are all aware of Lord Acton’s famous statement ‘Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely’ we sometimes forget that it continued ‘Great men are almost always bad men’’. The American journalist and social [...]

November 15, 2016 // 0 Comments

1 … 206 207 208 209 210 … 251

Copyright © 2026 The National Rust | Design by Premonition