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It entirely depends where you’re coming from

As I type I’m sitting at my computer in the small hours with the BBC television coverage of first of the live US presidential debates playing in the background and finding it fascinating. Sometimes my pals and others complain that my views (anti-views?) are extreme, facile or just too cynical for [...]

September 27, 2016 // 0 Comments

Strange times or perhaps maybe not

It is difficult to avoid the view that we live in interesting times, but then in reality all times are ‘interesting’, irrespective of whether they appear to be hosting a bigger number of earth-shattering or iconic events that one might normally expect. Right now we’re approaching getting the [...]

September 12, 2016 // 0 Comments

It does make me smile

Regular Rust readers will know that I exercised my most fundamental democratic right (some might say duty) for the first time in my life on 23rd June 2016 when I recorded my vote in favour of Brexit in the UK’s EU Referendum. To this day I remain defiant in the face of constant criticism from [...]

September 8, 2016 // 0 Comments

An incident in a supermarket

A true story. Yesterday, shortly before 6.00pm, I set off to drive into my local town in order to buy some food provisions that (I had been informed) were absolutely essential if I wished to enjoy the full majesty of my much-anticipated evening meal. My shop of choice for this expedition was [...]

August 26, 2016 // 0 Comments

Par for the course

Rust regulars will scarcely need reminding that I bow to nobody in my cynical contempt for the British Establishment and its political classes. They’re all too prepared to lecture the British public from their pompous Mount Olympus all-expenses-paid dining table about how theirs is the highest [...]

August 1, 2016 // 0 Comments

Mindless bickering, but let’s keep our eye on the ball that counts

I don’t know about you, but I’m getting somewhat fed up by the continuing war over the UK Referendum result – or perhaps I’m really referring to the amount of media coverage that it is still getting. Yes, okay, I know we’re bang-slap in the middle of the traditional media ‘silly [...]

July 26, 2016 // 0 Comments

This ‘stuck record’ is finally coming to a halt, I promise …

What continues to surprise me is the degree to which, in this post-EU Referendum world, the outcome – together with its implications and the uncertainties as to what it might mean for the UK and its people – has been dominating the media. I’m referring to the Leavers’ ongoing remorse, [...]

July 22, 2016 // 0 Comments

All in a single day

Come on guys, I mean I know it’s the ‘summer season’ when there’s not much going on in the world and the media (what used to be known in the UK back in the day as ‘Fleet Street’), bored with nothing worthy to report, traditionally resorted to ridiculous tales of Miami Beach-style [...]

July 20, 2016 // 0 Comments

It’s time to get serious

One of the benefits of getting old is that life becomes ever more simple and straightforward – that’s what I like to maintain, anyway. The thing is that – as modern life hurtles on past your train window – we all tend to get fed up trying to stay ‘connected’ and gradually regroup (or [...]

July 19, 2016 // 0 Comments

In defence of the unspeakable

I’m aware I’m straying above my pay grade here, but the apparently bemused and incredulous worldwide reaction – covered with such relish by the British media – to the announcement that Boris Johnson has joined Theresa May’s government team leads me to offer a word or two in defence of our [...]

July 15, 2016 // 0 Comments

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