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Counting down …

I promise I’m doing my level best to get excited about the General Election campaign – which, the pundits were saying yesterday, has just 38 days to go – but already it feels like I’m swimming upstream in a fast-moving swollen river. Here are some personal snapshot reactions to [...]

March 31, 2015 // 0 Comments

A failed attempt to get involved

I had thought those televised Election interviews/debates were some way off, but – bingo! – having switched temporarily to Sky News yesterday in order to catch up on the latest on the tragedy of the Germanwings airliner crash, I was suddenly confronted by a ‘throw’ to some [...]

March 27, 2015 // 0 Comments

Holding on …

  I think someone said during the Daily Politics show on BBC2 yesterday – in and around the last Prime Minister’s Question Time before 7th May – that there are 43 days to go to the General Election. Despite Alex Salmond’s concerted campaign to de-stabilise the established Westminster [...]

March 26, 2015 // 0 Comments

Salmond served cold

By chance – I was doing other things beforehand and walked into the room not because I was looking out for it –  I caught  the last eight minutes  of yesterday’s appearance of former SNP leader Alex Salmond in the ‘main interview’ (0945 hours onwards) slot on The Andrew Marr [...]

March 23, 2015 // 0 Comments

Frustrations

Sometimes the things that bug us are weird and wonderful. My ancient father harbours a series of pet subjects that set him off down the cussing route – I suspect that everyone does, and that they change at various stages of our lives – and there is very little that can persuade him that his [...]

March 22, 2015 // 0 Comments

A corner of WW2 history

I’m spending a few days with my father on the south coast and yesterday – for want of anything better to do, desirous of getting some fresh hour after four hours in front of a computer screen in a quest to complete a substantial article – I suggested we visit the Tangmere Military Aviation [...]

March 20, 2015 // 0 Comments

Getting on with it

Sometimes – thankfully – events conspire to remind us to park our self-absorption, reflect upon life and be thankful for small mercies. I hesitate to file this post under the heading ‘There’s always someone worse off than yourself’, but there’s an element of that in my theme today. [...]

March 18, 2015 // 0 Comments

Getting into the swing of it now …

Last time I looked out from behind the sofa there were about fifty days to go to the General Election and we’re already approaching the political equivalent of Fleet Street’s traditional annual (August) silly season for stories. During the past week we’ve had the Pub Landlord [...]

March 16, 2015 // 0 Comments

Uncertain outcome?

No apologies for lazy journalism at the Rust today. Andrew Rawnsley is a political commentator who is always worth reading and today he has an excellent piece on the likely outcome of the General Election featuring in – see here – THE [...]

March 15, 2015 // 0 Comments

Queue here for the bun-fight

Yesterday afternoon the main UK broadcasters [the BBC, ITV, Channel Four and Sky] ‘called David Cameron’s bluff’ by announcing that they were going to proceed, as they had originally planned, with two televised electoral debates involving seven party leaders, plus one head-to-head version [...]

March 7, 2015 // 0 Comments

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