Politics

And so yesterday to Soho, one of my familiar haunts of my yesteryear career, for lunch. In days of yore at one stage the Gay Hussar in Greek Street was practically a staff canteen and I (no gourmet I hasten to add) was occasionally taken down the road to L’Escargot, where the legendary Elena [...]

Regular readers will have correctly fingered me as a supporter of Brexit on the forthcoming EU Referendum. I have reached this position not from a careful forensic analysis of the economic, political, security and innumerable other issues that we voters are being told we should be considering. Nor [...]

As the EU Referendum Day draws ever nearer, both sides are filling the media with a snowstorm of claims and counter-claims. Within the past fortnight we have had US President Obama joining in on the Remain side by urging the UK to stay in; Michael Gove (Brexit) claiming that staying in the EU will [...]

Today I must begin my piece with a disclaimer. As regular Rust readers will know – and therefore accordingly discount my views by whatever percentage they choose – on the matter of the EU Referendum I am an avowed Brexiter largely because I wish to rid the UK of Scotland. That said, I am doing [...]

Some great thinkers and commentators have the capacity to get to the core of humanity’s eternal truths. I guess it’s arguable as to whether, when Samuel Johnson pronounced that patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel some 240 years ago, he fingered one of them. Nevertheless, you won’t [...]