Politics

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

“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

Ukraine war: a heavyweight Brit broadcaster weighs in

Since the rogue President Putin ordered his armed forces to invade the Ukraine last week our television screens, radio airwaves, newspaper websites and social media outlets have been filled with wall-to-wall coverage of its progress and the reactions of governments and peoples around the world. [...]

February 27, 2022 // 0 Comments

The invasion of Ukraine – the chess angle

Yesterday was spent in front of the television watching events in Ukraine unfurl. I opted for Sky News. The adverts were irritating – and the photo footage repeated – but they pulled in the important personalities, starting with Defence Secretary Ben Wallace, and were across the big [...]

February 26, 2022 // 0 Comments

Defence: what’s it really for, exactly?

It seems to me that more than anything – never mind the current Russian invasion of the Ukraine, let’s go back and reference its seizing of the Crimean Peninsular in 2014 in furtherance of President Putin’s loony attitude to Euro-Russian geo-politics and power-balancing – the vexing subject [...]

February 26, 2022 // 0 Comments

The sporting equivalent of “When did you last stop beating your wife?”

For an organ, and indeed a sports editor, that have adopted an avowed position that all world sports administrations are corrupt (and indeed, the more powerful they are, the greater the likelihood that they are absolutely corrupt – not least the Olympics), it may seem to some Rusters somewhat [...]

February 12, 2022 // 0 Comments

What goes around, comes around

My recent post upon the way the apparent unhealthy path down which world sport is headed [The parlous state of world sport – National Rust 9th February] – containing the statement that I had taken a deliberate decision to avoid any viewing of the Winter Olympics currently taking place in [...]

February 11, 2022 // 0 Comments

Rust “woke watch” latest (part 14)

No apologies here from me for today linking Rusters to two pieces in which columnists for one of the UK’s national newspapers decide to vent against the latest concessions to the forces of Generation X “wokedom” … THE EVER-ONWARD MARCH OF CYCLISTS AND E-SCOOTER LOONIES First [...]

January 25, 2022 // 0 Comments

Late Mozart and The Rest is History

One of my favourite presenters is Donald Macleod who on Radio 3 at midday presents The Great Composers. Occasionally it will be a composer of whom I have not heard but, as often as not, I have. Last week he covered the late period of Mozart’s life. For me, Mozart is the greatest of them all [...]

December 25, 2021 // 0 Comments

Upon entering Christmas week …

Since the beginning on the month, I suspect in common with the bulk of the British public, my family has spent much of its time keeping our originally intended plans for celebrating Christmas under review while also monitoring the latest daily developments in the Omicron variant crisis in case the [...]

December 21, 2021 // 0 Comments

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Manchester United 1 Brighton HAFC 2

January 12, 2026 // 0 Comments

Tom Hollingsworth called it right on giantkilling. . I’m old enough to remember Brighton in the old 4th division and buying Spurs double winner centre forward the burly [...]
FA CUP LIVES ON

January 11, 2026 // 0 Comments

That strange British eccentricity’ hss allowed the FA Cup to live on despite weakened teams, moved kick off times and even days and overseas players and head coaches [...]
The Tanner Report : Walham Green walloped

January 8, 2026 // 0 Comments

No victory means more to a Fulham supporter than beating their SW6 rivals aka Walham Green . Over the years we have lived in their shadow and in the Jose Mourinho era [...]
Amorim & Maresca leave .

January 5, 2026 // 0 Comments

The ‘departure of Amor anf Maresca with their clubs lying in 6th and 5th place respectively is a game changer. Time was a manager/ head coach waited till a sacking then [...]
The Tanner Report : Fulham 2 Liverpool 2

January 5, 2026 // 0 Comments

Although there were some Fulham fans disappointed by this draw I was not one of them. Marvo Silva had to set up with 7 absentees and came up with a 3-5-1-1 which worked well [...]