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A close shave on a shopping expedition

Sometimes, looking back, the little things that happen to you seem to give you access to insights upon more universal matters – such occurred to me yesterday. I’ve been at the stage for a while now where not only do those close to me tease about supposed ‘senior moments’ or possible [...]

November 12, 2016 // 0 Comments

How To Win The US Presidency

Last night I watched a documentary called and on HOW TO WIN THE US PRESIDENCY.  In surveying the Presidents from Washington to Obama, though referred to the 46th President Donald Trump, the programme identified the following requirements to reach the Oval Office: 1) Money 2) Message 3) Look 4) [...]

November 10, 2016 // 0 Comments

That’s the first I heard of it

This Brexit constitutional crisis continues to dominate the headlines. Yesterday, surrounded by the Sunday newspapers, as is my habit I sat watching the BBC1’s Andrew Marr Show and later Sunday Politics (hosted by Jo Coburn because Andrew Neil is away in the Unites States covering the General [...]

November 7, 2016 // 0 Comments

Just a thought

A fascinating aspect of what, for want of a better terms I shall call ‘major crises’ (whether they be over something cooked for an important dinner party at home that goes wrong, your local football team losing four games on the bounce, right through to national political impasses or even US [...]

November 5, 2016 // 0 Comments

Upon receiving a short sharp shock

Yesterday evening, on the BBC television’s Six O’Clock News, I caught a report upon some new findings by medical researchers on the effects of smoking upon the human body. It was uncompromising, stark, direct and blunt and – for this viewer – a bit of ‘sit up and take notice’ moment. I [...]

November 4, 2016 // 0 Comments

There’s always one

I always enjoy reading a good, strong, biased rant and here’s a classic I came across today – from The Independent‘s (is it?) Middle East correspondent Robert Fisk who in my book practically operates as an anti-Western ‘First Nation’ – pro-Palestinian, [...]

November 4, 2016 // 0 Comments

Shush! Keep this to yourselves …

This morning, after undertaking a food shop designed to enable me to last at least three weeks without leaving the house, I am barricading my front door, refusing to answer my phone and just generally ‘lying low’. Attentive or regular Rust readers will know that I am one of not a small number [...]

October 31, 2016 // 0 Comments

It’s grim up north

When like me you don’t get out much and driving to Worcester by road seems the equivalent of crossing the Atlantic but in fact only takes about three and a half hours (to four) hours, it is a fact of life that over the course of a couple of decades one can acquire a pretty warped sense of [...]

October 28, 2016 // 0 Comments

Trying to make sense of it all

Sitting locked away in my bunker, surveying a world that seems simultaneously to have discarded judgement and reason and thereby become become appreciably more dangerous, I wondered whether Rust readers might benefit from being recommended this link to an article by John Harris, as appears today on [...]

October 28, 2016 // 0 Comments

Cleared for take-off

There was a great deal of media excitement yesterday over the Government’s announcement that it favoured the creation of a third runway at Heathrow over a similar at either Gatwick or Stansted … or indeed any other solution. Reporters were sent to the perimeter fences to stand for up to ten [...]

October 25, 2016 // 0 Comments

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