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A brush with the medical profession

Currently billeted with my 90 year-old father at the coast, I was out yesterday afternoon and returning to base when I was called from his house by She Who Must Be Obeyed (‘SWMBO’). Where was I? As it happens, I was just passing the church – less than half a mile away and counting. Well, [...]

June 30, 2016 // 0 Comments

More internet exasperation

On my return from Cornwall I received a letter from the Single Discount Review Team of my local council querying my single occupation. I will admit to the odd staying guest but as far as I was aware the only two occupants were and are myself and my cat. I put this in the Polly Pile for her to deal [...]

June 29, 2016 // 0 Comments

Not waving but drowning (again)

One of the issues for columnists upon an organ like the Rust is that when current affairs are as fluid, fast-moving and extraordinary as the aftermath of the Brexit vote in the UK’s EU Referendum campaign there’s not a lot of light that we can shed. Or at least, that we can shed that won’t be [...]

June 29, 2016 // 0 Comments

What’s really important

Sport and legendary characters go hand in hand. One of the greatest of them in my book was Bill Shankly, manager of Liverpool FC from 1959 to 1974. My favourite quotation of his was: ‘Some people believe football is a matter of life and death. I am very disappointed with that attitude. I can [...]

June 28, 2016 // 0 Comments

Politicians overboard … who will rescue them?

The fallout from the EU Referendum continues to expand like wildfire and more than one political commentator is now referring to it as not ‘one of’ but the biggest political crisis since WW2. See here for an example – Michael White writing in – THE GUARDIAN The basic problem is that it’s [...]

June 27, 2016 // 0 Comments

Hmmnnn … my mistake perhaps

Oh dear. Following the brilliant outcome to the EU Referendum last Thursday – in which we ordinary voters took an unique opportunity to register a protest vote against the political elite, its chums and their bag-carriers, and indeed everything they stand for – it was only to be expected that [...]

June 26, 2016 // 0 Comments

What comes around

We are shortly approaching the fortieth anniversary (on 4th July) of one of the moments in history that seems to have gained iconic status amongst Rusters. Operation Entebbe, or Operation Thunderbolt to mention its military version – or indeed Raid On Entebbe, to name the 1977 television film [...]

June 26, 2016 // 0 Comments

Dying embers

After what has been an extraordinary political week for the United Kingdom, the continent of Europe and indeed probably the world – like I suspect most Rust readers, I spent much of yesterday watching the aftermath of the EU Referendum result unfold in the media. I’ll leave the expert political [...]

June 25, 2016 // 0 Comments

Driving us round the twist

Thinking back over the past month or so, the one thing that has struck me about life in Britain has been the state of the roads. Or – to be precise about it – the amount of traffic on our roads and the consequent problems that gridlocks cause the general public. I travel every fortnight [...]

June 24, 2016 // 0 Comments

A watershed moment

Thursday 23rd June 2016 – somewhere in south-west London. There, I’ve done it! After forty-eight years of being eligible to vote in the British electoral system without ever having voting for anybody or anything, this morning I nipped along to my local bowls and sporting club, queued up and [...]

June 23, 2016 // 0 Comments

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