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Be wary of what you wish for

The topic of Scottish independence refuses to go away. Yesterday’s strange proceedings in the House of Commons, supposedly addressing the vexed problem of how to take forward the consequential issue of ‘English only votes on English only issues’, is the latest manifestation. [...]

December 17, 2014 // 0 Comments

Some people need to grow up

Apparently the news that Formula One motor racing champion Lewis Hamilton was anointed as the BBC Sports Personality Of The Year last weekend has caused a bit of a hoo-hah. There are a number of professional golfers (professional and otherwise), plus golfing and other sports journalists who, some [...]

December 16, 2014 // 0 Comments

The saga continues

We at the National Rust make no apology for our continuing interest in the use of performing-enhancing drugs in sport. At this moment in time there are hard-hitting stories brewing about cycling [Wow! Quelle surprise!] and two recent German television documentaries alleging that a household-name [...]

December 11, 2014 // 0 Comments

A mass of contradictions

One of comedian Frankie Howard’s much-loved catch-phrases [used conspiratorially to his audience, whether it was in a theatre or at home watching on television] was “No, don’t laugh – it’s wicked to mock the afflicted …” and I’m somewhat reluctant to invoke it here when [...]

December 10, 2014 // 0 Comments

It’s all relative, mate

Before I begin my post today, it is ‘cards on the table’ time. I’m an atheist, largely because – in terms of how I live my life – I feel most comfortable presuming that God does not exist and that religion is a man-made means of control-comforting the masses. If I’ve got that [...]

December 8, 2014 // 0 Comments

Living anywhere but the present

It must be deeply frustrating to live in the 21sT Century if you’re a Tory. Stereotypically, of course, people of a Tory persuasion instinctively want to live in the past – I say that because (hiding under the skirt of ‘not all change is for the good’) they instinctively want life to remain [...]

December 5, 2014 // 0 Comments

Forgotten but not quite

Former Lib-Dem leader Jeremy Thorpe died yesterday aged 84 after a long battle with Parkinson’s Disease. [Actually – hold that statement for a moment. I saw a comment by a lady in the media, somewhere within the past week, that she resented people’s experience of living with cancer being [...]

December 5, 2014 // 0 Comments

An intriguing possibility?

Yesterday I drove to the south coast in order to spend the weekend with my father. Despite the waterlogged lawn and the evident puddles on many surrounding roads, the South-East has been experiencing some remarkably mild weather recently as December approaches. We spent the late morning sitting out [...]

November 30, 2014 // 0 Comments

Whatever happened to British Justice?

I always remember a conversation with my father even though it must have taken place over fifty years ago. He was considering emigration to the United States but one of the factors that made us stay in the United Kingdom was his admiration for British justice.  At around the same time I also [...]

November 19, 2014 // 0 Comments

Watching the world go by

Yesterday I drove around the M25 to the South terminal of Gatwick Airport in order to collect my son Barry, who was arriving on a flight from Faro in Portugal. Perhaps inevitably – and partly it was my fault because I had allowed extra time because of the ‘reduced lanes’ road works that [...]

November 7, 2014 // 0 Comments

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