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Will the last person in the building please switch off the lights

Just when one thought The Brexit Matter couldn’t get any worse, suddenly – with appropriately ghastly timing – the spectre of David Cameron, the man who brought the whole thing about by setting up the 2016 EU Referendum, returns to haunt us with the launch of his 752-page political memoirs [...]

September 14, 2019 // 0 Comments

Remind you of anyone?

When times get tough and every news bulletin seems to bring details of new chaotic developments to your living room that out-do those of the day before, the average UK citizen could be forgiven for thinking that the world has gone plumb loco. Boris Johnson became Prime Minister on 24th July – not [...]

September 12, 2019 // 0 Comments

Brexit latest

Now let’s get this straight. The whole sad, sorry, pathetic, Establishment-revealing Brexit saga is somebody else’s fault, okay? Way back in the Dark Ages the blame lies with Harold Macmillan – you know the one, the patriarchal cove who instigated “the night of the long knives’ against [...]

September 9, 2019 // 0 Comments

It’s not easy watching a man drowning

I’ve just looked it up online, so it must be true: in his play Man and Superman, George Bernard Shaw – having a pop at the teaching profession – penned the line: “Don’t listen to her, Bob. Remember, those who can, do; those who can’t, teach.” Another popular version of the same thrust [...]

September 4, 2019 // 0 Comments

Review: first day of a momentous week?

Yesterday – for my sins, out of curiosity given the alleged momentousness of this week and possibly also for the benefit of fellow Rusters who couldn’t be bothered to follow by-the-minute-developments – I decided to spent much of my time ‘monitoring’ the political manoeuvrings at [...]

September 3, 2019 // 0 Comments

Upon the eve of something

Bland and obvious though it is to type, every one of us is a product of the era in which we live plus a blend (perhaps in varying proportions) of our culture, ancestry, actions, decisions and indeed the social circles in which we move. As collectively, for good or ill, we stand on our cliff edge [...]

September 1, 2019 // 0 Comments

Perspectives and things

Summoned this week to lunch with the Rust’s proprietor at one of the most prestigious and expensive restaurants in southern England I soon found myself bobbing and weaving on the ropes, fighting to keep my head above water, as he quizzed me  on my views about everything from the unhinged state [...]

August 31, 2019 // 0 Comments

An incident of breaking news

You have to smile sometimes. Yesterday mid-morning I was out, driving to the shops upon an errand, when I tuned to a radio discussion in which – chaired by the programme host – a guest panel of Leave and Remainer politicians were knocking six bells out of each other in reaction to a ‘breaking [...]

August 28, 2019 // 0 Comments

Things to worry about

With everything that’s going on at the moment, one might be forgiven for believing that we’re all going to hell in a hand cart, the end of human civilisation is night, nothing is sacred anymore, the globe and its politicians have lost all sense of reason and we’ve plainly reached the point [...]

August 28, 2019 // 0 Comments

Truth as a commodity and other issues

I don’t know whether I’m ga-ga, delusional, or even turning into a hard line, “hang ‘em and flog ‘em” right-wing Tory, but over the past couple of years, on the Stephen Nolan Show (aired from about 2200 hours to 0100 hours most nights) habitual Radio Five Live listeners like myself have [...]

August 19, 2019 // 0 Comments

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