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An afternoon on the ocean wave

Yesterday I went out on a pleasant afternoon motor launch trip with my father and some friends on the south coast. This was after I had braved England’s motorways to get there – and for the fourth consecutive time in doing so, found myself trapped in a serious traffic gridlock. This time the [...]

July 8, 2016 // 0 Comments

Hmmmnnn …

Pardon me for being mischievous but, having read this story on the website of The Independent this morning, I’ve been trying to work out whether it is just a piece of factual reporting … or, alternatively, an outrageous piece of Remain propaganda being put out by some sore loser still [...]

July 8, 2016 // 0 Comments

Chilcot reaction

The publication yesterday of the 2.6 million word (twelve volume) Chilcot Report presented something of a challenge for an organ such as the Rust. Regular readers will be familiar with our standard approach to current and sporting events – viz. that we tend to avoid straight journalistic [...]

July 7, 2016 // 0 Comments

Round and round we go

Last night I watched a report by Adrian Chiles for the BBC1 current affairs programme Panorama on the subject of those who had voted for Brexit in the EU Referendum. For some people Chiles is a ‘Marmite’ broadcaster, but personally I quite like his often perceptive questioning coming, as it [...]

July 5, 2016 // 0 Comments

Goodbye to all that

That’s it for me. Fed up with the EU Referendum result and the political crisis that has inevitably followed, I’m off. I’m sufficiently worldly-wise that I anticipated some, but not all, of the fall-out that occurred after the Brexit vote. It always seemed to me that if you call a referendum [...]

July 4, 2016 // 0 Comments

Another lost weekend

After another Sunday morning spent in my favourite armchair flicking through the newspapers with BBC1’s The Andrew Marr Show and then Sunday Politics playing on the television in the corner of the room I suppose I should feel ashamed of myself but actually don’t. ‘Rubber-necking’ is what I [...]

July 4, 2016 // 0 Comments

Somme thoughts

My grandfather won his MC on the Somme in September 1916 and I spent yesterday, the occasion of the centenary of that Battle’s opening day (in terms of casualties the greatest catastrophe in British military history), in the company of my father. Mr grandfather – by then a Brigadier – was [...]

July 2, 2016 // 0 Comments

Dropping the pilot

I read in the media this morning that, once it became clear that Remain has lost the EU Referendum, David Cameron decided upon – and would not be dissuaded from – resigning as Prime Minister for two reasons: (1) he instinctively recoiled from staying on in order to negotiate an EU [...]

July 2, 2016 // 0 Comments

Curious and curiouser

Sometimes you come across something in the world that stops you in your tracks and makes you wonder. I experienced an example this morning when perusing the website of The Guardian newspaper. In principle we’re all in favour of the freedom – and indeed the diversity – of the [...]

July 1, 2016 // 0 Comments

View from the bunker

There exist theories that reality is a dream and vice versa; that there is a parallel universe, or indeed several existing simultaneously; that time is a human concept, and only a human concept, devised to explain something else quite different but I cannot quite remember what that was; and, of [...]

July 1, 2016 // 0 Comments

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