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Snore-fest Phil

Pardon me for straying onto territory usually covered by others on the editorial team of this esteemed organ, but yesterday I decided to stay indoors from 11.30am specifically in order to watch Prime Minister’s Question Time from the House of Commons, followed by Philip Hammond, Chancellor of the [...]

March 9, 2017 // 0 Comments

What can you believe these days? Anything you like …

We were having an informal editorial conference the other day over a very pleasant meal in a West End restaurant when out of the blue I aired the proposition that the Rust should declare itself a Trump-free organ, at least for a six-month trial period. Well, at least I received a polite hearing. My [...]

March 7, 2017 // 0 Comments

Not the best telly I’ve seen this week

It must be because of the forthcoming May local elections, but twice this week I’ve had the television on in the background tuned to the BBC News at Six, following by the local BBC London News, and consequently at 6.55pm, completely by chance, have caught the latest Tory and Labour party [...]

March 3, 2017 // 0 Comments

A worthy read

Occasionally in this life you has to acknowledge the amateur’s humble truth, an echo of that tried-and-trusted peddled by businessmen and careerists (“People who can, do – people who can’t, teach”), i.e. there are some operating in your area of special hobby interest [...]

February 26, 2017 // 0 Comments

Brexit grumbles

Okay, let us agree that the world has gone completely mad and that we’re living in a parallel universe in the fifth dimension somewhere on the other side of the universe, inside the black hole that the Solar System was sucked into around the time that someone persuaded Prime Minister David [...]

February 20, 2017 // 0 Comments

The Trump effect

One columnist whose pieces I always find worth reading – though I don’t necessarily agree with them – is Patrick Cockburn who currently pens his most often for The Independent. Here’s a link to the one that appears on the website of said newspaper today, discussing press [...]

February 18, 2017 // 0 Comments

Whoops!

Over the last couple of years the world seems to have gradually divorced itself from rationality, order and even reality. Is it pompous to suggest that much of human development results from a clash of ‘preserving what we cherish’ (conservatism with a small ‘C’) and by lobbying, protesting [...]

February 17, 2017 // 0 Comments

Coming home to roost

Yesterday as per normal I spent my morning in my favourite arm chair surrounded by the Sunday newspapers and watching BBC1 – viz. The Andrew Marr Show, Nicky Campbell’s The Big Questions and Andrew Neil’s Sunday Politics. It’s a habit that’s hard to break. Something struck me as Nicky [...]

February 6, 2017 // 0 Comments

The way forward

Now let’s get this straight. Donald ‘Slim Pickens’ Trump is the new President of the United States and already he’s behaving like a loose cannon, ruffling feathers everywhere, issuing executive orders destroying every aspect of the Obama legacy that appears on his radar, warning China of a [...]

January 24, 2017 // 0 Comments

Window on the new world?

Very strange mix of thoughts and feelings yesterday as I strapped myself in to watch the Trump inauguration on Capitol Hill on BBC1 from 4.00pm UK time. My original plan had been to take exercise of some sort in the afternoon because I had been confined to my home engaged upon domestic and other [...]

January 21, 2017 // 0 Comments

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