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You couldn’t make this stuff up …

Picking up from where my colleague Arthur Nelson let off yesterday [Wokery – the curse of the 21st Century? (26th March 2022)], as I was touring the newspaper websites overnight I came across a number of stories and/or reports that reinforce the impression that we are living in some pretty [...]

March 27, 2022 // 0 Comments

A la Colthard/Semolina and the Pig in South Downs

Semolina was recommended to me by the greeter/manageress at my hairdresser in Brighton. Its location off London Road, north of the centre, is not the best as it’s an area known for druggies. The restaurant is small. On the night we (my guest was a spirited Aussie girl who is a party animal) we [...]

March 26, 2022 // 0 Comments

“Wokery” – the curse of the 21st Century?

I am conscious these days that on this particular subject I am running the risk of beginning to sound like a stuck record – and probably one of the original 78s – but I’m becoming fed up to the back teeth with the modern obsessions over issues such as equality, diversity, transgender [...]

March 26, 2022 // 0 Comments

The End of The Affair/Graham Greene

My late mother read this novel when pregnant with me. I still retain her copy but I have just re-read it via audio book. The narrator was that excellent actor Colin Firth. That narration is in the “I” form and that of Maurice Bendrix, an author himself, having an affaire with Sarah Miles who [...]

March 24, 2022 // 0 Comments

A la Colthard /Roast, Borough Market

‘Roast’  is in Borough Market. It is new to me and things got off to a bad start when they had no sign of the reservation which I had booked through TheFork. I knew I had booked – and indeed had confirmation – so I was less than pleased. My guest, an actress whom I have known 40 [...]

March 23, 2022 // 0 Comments

Transgender issues, not least in sport

Being an oldie, Rust readers would expect me to be relatively unimpressed by the 21st Century’s general obsessions with “wokeness”, atoning for the alleged sins of colonialism, no-platforming, the advancement of equality and diversity and, of course, the supposed inalienable right of women [...]

March 22, 2022 // 0 Comments

Longines watch

On the occasion of our silver wedding anniversary my wife Megan presented me with a Longines watch. It has always been my favourite luxury watch marque. My late father had three. He had a cunning ruse of using his own watchmaker to service them but, when we came to have one valued, the assessor [...]

March 22, 2022 // 0 Comments

Peter Bowles (1936-2022)

I was much saddened by the passing of Peter Bowles aged 85. As a fan of Rumpole of the Bailey I enjoyed him as the smooth but thick Guthrie Featherstone QC, a typical John Mortimer depiction of a rich Tory. I have a connection to the programme. Jonathan Coy, who played the clerk Henry, is an old [...]

March 21, 2022 // 0 Comments

Six Nations: nation by nation

France Worthy Grand Slam winners. France won all 5 games and only looked vulnerable in the second  half against Wales. France combined a powerful pack with typical Gallic flair behind it. Will be World Cup favourites on their own patch.   Ireland  Runner-up was about right. They lost the key [...]

March 20, 2022 // 0 Comments

When time-honoured legal principles collide with modern life

My contribution today concerns two matters relating to the laws of England and Wales that I’ve come across recently and thought I’d share with my fellow Rusters. As is my traditional practice I shall open my discourse with a disclaimer and/or perhaps that should be “declaration of (non) [...]

March 19, 2022 // 0 Comments

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