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The art of muddling through

Today I wish to begin with four famous quotations. Whilst we are all aware of Lord Acton’s famous statement ‘Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely’ we sometimes forget that it continued ‘Great men are almost always bad men’’. The American journalist and social [...]

November 15, 2016 // 0 Comments

How To Win The US Presidency

Last night I watched a documentary called and on HOW TO WIN THE US PRESIDENCY.  In surveying the Presidents from Washington to Obama, though referred to the 46th President Donald Trump, the programme identified the following requirements to reach the Oval Office: 1) Money 2) Message 3) Look 4) [...]

November 10, 2016 // 0 Comments

That’s the first I heard of it

This Brexit constitutional crisis continues to dominate the headlines. Yesterday, surrounded by the Sunday newspapers, as is my habit I sat watching the BBC1’s Andrew Marr Show and later Sunday Politics (hosted by Jo Coburn because Andrew Neil is away in the Unites States covering the General [...]

November 7, 2016 // 0 Comments

Just a thought

A fascinating aspect of what, for want of a better terms I shall call ‘major crises’ (whether they be over something cooked for an important dinner party at home that goes wrong, your local football team losing four games on the bounce, right through to national political impasses or even US [...]

November 5, 2016 // 0 Comments

Trying to make sense of it all

Sitting locked away in my bunker, surveying a world that seems simultaneously to have discarded judgement and reason and thereby become become appreciably more dangerous, I wondered whether Rust readers might benefit from being recommended this link to an article by John Harris, as appears today on [...]

October 28, 2016 // 0 Comments

The world’s gone mad (again)

It is not often that I am up at the time on a Thursday (10.35pm or thereabouts) for the BBC1 Question Time programme chaired by David Dimbleby, as I was last night. The first two topics discussed were those of the US Presidential debate and, of course with Mrs May at her first EU summit, Brexit. [...]

October 20, 2016 // 0 Comments

And suddenly – we voted Brexit, folks (apparently)!

Overnight I visited the website of The Independent and suddenly felt that I’d fallen into a parallel universe in which Brexit had suddenly become the only topic of the moment. Flicking to the equivalents of the other what-used-to-be-called UK broadsheet ‘serious’ newspapers and normality [...]

October 19, 2016 // 0 Comments

A matter of expediency

Some might think in prospect that it is a jump too far somehow manage to compose a blog post linking the EU Referendum result to the recent involuntary (I’m not discussing here Will Young’s decision to walk away from the show) three celebrity ‘votings-off’ the BBC’s weekend ratings [...]

October 18, 2016 // 0 Comments

Brexit confusion

Yesterday I watched the Six O’Clock News on BBC1 on which the opening story was the developing row at Prime Minister’s Question Time and elsewhere over whether Parliament should be allowed to scrutinise the Government’s strategy and/or ‘opening position’ on its Brexit negotiations  or [...]

October 13, 2016 // 0 Comments

Stalemate in the wee hours

My past 24 hours was somewhat dominated by the second US presidential election (Donald Trump v Hillary Clinton) TV debate which took place from 2.00am this morning. After having a relatively quiet Sunday – reading the papers, watching the Andrew Marr Show and then then Sunday Politics, snoozing [...]

October 10, 2016 // 0 Comments

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