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The view from here

Your correspondent has recently been inactive in terms of contributing to the Rust primarily because he has been busy on intensive but boring domestic/administrative matters of little consequence which has prompted him to shelter under our magnificent guiding editorial principle that “If you [...]

January 24, 2021 // 0 Comments

Into 2012 and beyond

Surveying the UK newspaper websites overnight – with the latest developments and reactions thereto on the advent of Lockdown Three dominating most of the coverage – I found myself moved once again to reflect upon some of the fundamentals underlying the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. I [...]

January 6, 2021 // 0 Comments

The End Of The Year Show

Reflecting upon what by any yardstick has been a crowded and extraordinary 2020 – viewed in two tranches from the inside of supposed lockdowns but otherwise generally (as usual) from my habitual sedentary position in front my television and computer screens – I have been struck repeatedly time [...]

December 16, 2020 // 0 Comments

All change for Christmas!

Yesterday – no doubt like many who, bored with their routine of taking afternoon exercise, have taken to having afternoon naps instead and thereby regained the half stone that they’d previously lost – I tuned my radio to listen to the Prime Minister’s early evening press conference on [...]

November 24, 2020 // 0 Comments

And another thing …

For someone as cynical as myself about the world of politics and “the Establishment” there is little more fascinating that a good old-fashioned newspaper expose of hypocrisy, double-dealing, “do as I say, not as I do”, “one law for the rich, another for everyone [...]

November 23, 2020 // 0 Comments

Is anyone surprised?

History and experience tells me that it is a universal truth that hindsight and glib, sweeping generalisations are all too easy to hatch and that – as Boris Johnson and others temporarily in possession of apparent absolute power always find out, and/or as Harry S. Truman (US President 1945-1953) [...]

November 11, 2020 // 0 Comments

All over the place

Regular readers will have noticed that on The Rust – rather through an osmosis-like process than editorial decree – we have tended to shy away from too much day-to-day coverage or indeed comment upon the Covid-19 crisis. This development has occurred for the obvious reasons – not least the [...]

November 8, 2020 // 0 Comments

Six months and counting into it

Last weekend I joined an informal and thoroughly enjoyable Zoom meeting of half a dozen erstwhile contributors to the Rust – two of whom I have never met in the flesh – at which we just socialised, caught up with each other’s personal news and discussed the extent to which the Covid-19 crisis [...]

October 13, 2020 // 0 Comments

Trump/Biden Documentaries on PBS and Roy Cohn

Two documentaries on PBS on the candidates Joe Biden and Donald Trump – and after that Joe McCarthy – were very informative. There is a link between Joe McCarthy and Donald Trump and he is Roy Cohn. Cohn was an up and coming attorney aged 26 when appointed, ahead of Robert Kennedy, [...]

October 11, 2020 // 0 Comments

Supper and entertainment

Yesterday for my sins I went for an early evening meal in the suburbs with a couple I have known for nearly five decades – and, as we remarked during our meal, that fact alone drives home both just how old we are and how fast time flies. (Only people above a certain age can say that). It was an [...]

September 13, 2020 // 0 Comments

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