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Grinding to a halt under the eco-activist yoke

At the risk of becoming tagged as the Rust‘s unofficial motoring correspondent, today I return to the the subject of two significant threats to the quiet enjoyment of Britain’s public roads by the ordinary, average, law-abiding, private motorist – namely, cyclists and those who [...]

December 7, 2021 // 0 Comments

Soccer journo allegiance and their ways

Yesterday I attended a football lunch where I sat next to a retired sports journalist who is a Fulham fan. I have no particular allegiance to any club but we rattled off names of journos that do. They generally come to journalism supporting a club. It can be an asset in building relationships and [...]

December 7, 2021 // 0 Comments

Standing up for what counts

Sometimes it occurs to me that, given the frequency with which contributors to this organ feel obliged to open their musings with an apology and/or ‘declaration of interest’ for being either an oldie and/or generally ‘out of touch’, our average reader might be forgiven for gaining the [...]

December 6, 2021 // 0 Comments

The (no so) Good Life – a review

Yesterday I travelled down from London in order to attend a touring performance of a new stage version of the highly-popular BBC (Bob Larbey and John Esmonde-written) television comedy sit-com The Good Life (1975- 1978) at the Chichester Festival Theatre. In all honesty I was not expecting a great [...]

December 5, 2021 // 0 Comments

The Tanner Report: Fulham 1 Bournemouth 1

You have to hand it to Scott Parker. He can surprise the opposition with training ground moves. With us in the key play-off final v Brentford, Joe Bryan’s free kick caught their keeper well off his line. Returning last night as manager of Bournemouth Parker clearly worked a number on his [...]

December 4, 2021 // 0 Comments

A bird in the hand is worth two in the Bush

Last night – upon a last-minute whim and with not a little anticipatory excitement – my wife and I went to the small-stage Minerva at the Chichester Festival Theatre for the last performance of three at the venue given by Sarah-Louise Young of her one-woman show conceived with Russell Lucas [...]

December 4, 2021 // 0 Comments

My art week

I have just finished Art of the Extreme 1905-1915 by Philip Hook the ex-Director of Impressionism and Modern Art at Sothebys. His background is sales. He writes well. He is on safer ground discussing the great collectors Sergei Shchukin and Ivan Morozov in Russia and the emerging super rich ones [...]

December 3, 2021 // 0 Comments

Not just a matter of self-identification

Many of those who contribute to this organ take pride in the Rust‘s long and healthy record of pointing out both the oddities and absurdities of modern 21st Century “woke”, politically-correct, “Let’s invent new groupings of supposedly disadvantaged put-upon minorities [...]

December 3, 2021 // 0 Comments

West Ham 1 Brighton 1

The Seagulls maintained their unbeaten record against the Hammers in their second consecutive draw. They left it rather late – and had only 10 players on the pitch – when Neil Maupay atoned for previous misses by equalising with a spectacular overhead kick. West Ham had taken an early [...]

December 2, 2021 // 0 Comments

It’s all about a load of hot air …

Now some two months into my new life living on the south coast of England, I have been learning much – in my terminally technologically illiterate way – about the practicalities of living upon semi-agricultural land. One of first stages in our project is going to be the transformation of our [...]

December 2, 2021 // 0 Comments

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