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Reflections upon a sunny day

The way I see it, the issue of the moment is whether in the wake of the EU Referendum the UK is now in the grip of worrying or exciting times. The true answer may be probably be both – and I guess it may depend upon which side of the political spectrum and indeed Brexit argument you stand. We [...]

July 14, 2016 // 0 Comments

Not raining, but pouring

We like to keep a varied window on the modern world at this esteemed organ but today, despite the UK’s recent political scene rather dominating recent posts, I make no apology for returning again to the topic. Hopefully, when readers buy their value-for-money Christmas stocking filler copy of [...]

July 12, 2016 // 0 Comments

Bonfire of the vanities

Let us be generous – maybe Tony Blair is right. Maybe technically he didn’t actually lie to Parliament and/or the British nation when he engineered the rubber-stamping of his decision to enter the 2003 Iraq War, riding shotgun to stagecoach driver George Bush as America embarked upon [...]

July 11, 2016 // 0 Comments

Chilcot digested

In my judgement Andrew Rawnsley belongs to a small and distinguished group of British political commentators whose views and articles are always worth an airing and invariably seem to add light (and shade), as well as common sense, to the sum of human understanding. Here’s a link to his [...]

July 10, 2016 // 0 Comments

Hmmmnnn …

Pardon me for being mischievous but, having read this story on the website of The Independent this morning, I’ve been trying to work out whether it is just a piece of factual reporting … or, alternatively, an outrageous piece of Remain propaganda being put out by some sore loser still [...]

July 8, 2016 // 0 Comments

Chilcot reaction

The publication yesterday of the 2.6 million word (twelve volume) Chilcot Report presented something of a challenge for an organ such as the Rust. Regular readers will be familiar with our standard approach to current and sporting events – viz. that we tend to avoid straight journalistic [...]

July 7, 2016 // 0 Comments

Another lost weekend

After another Sunday morning spent in my favourite armchair flicking through the newspapers with BBC1’s The Andrew Marr Show and then Sunday Politics playing on the television in the corner of the room I suppose I should feel ashamed of myself but actually don’t. ‘Rubber-necking’ is what I [...]

July 4, 2016 // 0 Comments

Dropping the pilot

I read in the media this morning that, once it became clear that Remain has lost the EU Referendum, David Cameron decided upon – and would not be dissuaded from – resigning as Prime Minister for two reasons: (1) he instinctively recoiled from staying on in order to negotiate an EU [...]

July 2, 2016 // 0 Comments

View from the bunker

There exist theories that reality is a dream and vice versa; that there is a parallel universe, or indeed several existing simultaneously; that time is a human concept, and only a human concept, devised to explain something else quite different but I cannot quite remember what that was; and, of [...]

July 1, 2016 // 0 Comments

Not waving but drowning (again)

One of the issues for columnists upon an organ like the Rust is that when current affairs are as fluid, fast-moving and extraordinary as the aftermath of the Brexit vote in the UK’s EU Referendum campaign there’s not a lot of light that we can shed. Or at least, that we can shed that won’t be [...]

June 29, 2016 // 0 Comments

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