Politics

Loathe as I am to add yet more Brexit angst, pain, boredom and what I’d term “Huh? So bloody what?” to Rust readers’ lives, let along my own, I’m afraid the desire to do so overtook me in the wee hours of this morning when – by habit I’m afraid – I went to the website of The [...]

I’m quite intrigued by the travails of Damian Green, First Secretary of State and Minister for the Cabinet Office only since last June, currently embroiled in an alleged ‘he watched porn on his House of Common office computer back in 2008’ scandal, which of course – as we all know – [...]

Okay, so these are pretty weird times in both British and world politics – so let’s review where we’ve got to, shall we? BREXIT IS A COMPLETE DISASTER Whether we blame that pompous Eton-educated Tory posh boy David Cameron for promising the UK electorate an In-Out EU Referendum – either [...]

I must apologise today for returning to the vexed subject of Brexit. There are of course new reasons – and indeed reports or comments upon on old reasons – for doing so almost on a daily (or even more frequent) basis. However, I do get irritated by the small but significant number of [...]

The weirdest thing about British politics is the extent to which the average punter like me (and I certainly don’t claim any personal special skill or facility for doing this) can reach conclusions about – or see blindingly obvious logic in the implications of – events that happen, or crises [...]