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It’s difficult – in these strange times – to retain any sensible perspective upon what’s going on in the world. Here I’m not referring to “fake news” and/or the apparently ever-increasing phenomenon in which people begin to retreat behind extreme trenchant viewpoints and then take [...]

November 13, 2021 // 0 Comments

Tate Britain v Tate Modern

Yesterday our art art tutor gave us a curated tour of Tate Britain. Before writing this I visited the Tate website to see how this clarified the difference between Tate Modern and Tate Britain. This explained that Tate Modern was the more international and contemporary. Tate Britain – as it [...]

November 12, 2021 // 0 Comments

England v Australia rugby preview: Eddie gets it wrong (again)

Yesterday Eddie Jones formally announced his England squad to take on Australia at RFU Twickenham tomorrow afternoon [kick -off 5.30pm GMT] and it is no surprise that the bulk of rugby media reaction has centred around the return of incumbent captain Owen Farrell to the back line and – in the [...]

November 12, 2021 // 0 Comments

Medical matters

Around this time of year I have my annual medical. I will spare my readers the detail except to say that nothing untoward has so far been revealed. I will, however, share my thoughts on the medical profession. My late father was an excellent doctor. He was a brilliant diagnostician and a [...]

November 11, 2021 // 0 Comments

A Day at the Tate Modern

The last time I visited Tate Modern must have been 2017. It  did not float my boat as modern art is too political for me. I was back there yesterday for the curated tour of our art and visual culture course from 1950 onwards. We started with German artist and sculptor Joseph Beuys. He was a keen [...]

November 10, 2021 // 0 Comments

What it’s all coming to, possibly …

Regular visitors to the Rust will be all too familiar with our mission statement, raison d’etre, ethos, quirky attitudes and interests – and even our total lack of interest in the potential commercial upsides of our unique and extraordinary success and global domination of the market [...]

November 10, 2021 // 0 Comments

A la Colthard/Noble Rot

I have only heard good things of Noble Rot. It was once the site of The Gay Hussar in Greek Street where the hand of many a Labour MP, well-fuelled on Bulls Blood, wandered to my thigh!!! The cuisine was Hungarian and it was a well-known restaurant in the Soho scene particularly favoured by the [...]

November 9, 2021 // 0 Comments

Some things never change

Regular visitors to the pages of this organ will be all too familiar with some of our “running” campaigns and/or attitudes to occasional aspects of developing modern life in the 21st Century that – despite becoming part of the fabric of human society – do not seem to our contributors to [...]

November 9, 2021 // 0 Comments

Brighton 1 Newcastle 1

This dreadful match was a rude awakening for the Seagulls after their impressive draw at Anfield last week. We started well but it took VAR to make the referee David Coote after 24 minutes reconsider the challenge on Leo Trossard by Kieran Clark and award a penalty which Trossard converted  to [...]

November 7, 2021 // 0 Comments

Age and perception

I sometimes feel sorry for the Beatles. So great was their musical excellence, so all-pervading their impact upon 20th Century culture around the world, that (perhaps alongside Elvis Presley, whom of course did not write his own songs) they occupy such an exalted position in the public [...]

November 7, 2021 // 0 Comments

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