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On sleep duration issues

As the Rust’s editorial team ‘pound their daily beat’ by touring the world’s news websites in search of interesting, diverting or bizarre developments with which to amuse and/or entertain our adherents around the globe, occasionally we come across items which seem to fly in the face of [...]

February 13, 2021 // 0 Comments

When “equality for all” hits the iceberg

It may be fundamentally inappropriate and/or facile to discuss the Covid-19 pandemic in quasi-wartime terms so I apologise in advance to any Ruster who may be offended by me doing so today. However, it seems to me that with the benefit of hindsight – amidst the snowstorm of incoming competing [...]

February 12, 2021 // 0 Comments

Another first for Brighton

Brighton had the first nudist beach, one of the biggest Gay Pride events and a well-deserved reputation for wonkiness which has transformed into wokeness. The Brighton School in Kemp Town has three uniforms: boys, girls and transgender. Almost next door to it is the Royal Sussex County Hospital in [...]

February 11, 2021 // 0 Comments

Covid – it’s a nightmare

In Times 2 – the lifestyle and features section of the newspaper – last Monday a retired Harvard Professor Robert Sindgold wrote on nightmares caused by Covid anxiety. His conclusion was that though frequent these were nothing to fear. It was the brain working through the night [...]

February 10, 2021 // 0 Comments

Stark food for thought on the radio

Shortly before I rose from my bed overnight I was listening to the Stephen Nolan Show (2200 hours to 0100 hours) on Radio Five Live leading up to 1.00am. He was interviewing a gentleman whose name I did not catch and may (or may not) have been a Kiwi but – as far as I could tell from the [...]

February 6, 2021 // 0 Comments

Fending off the inevitable

When you’re a Ruster of a certain age – which arguably we all are – you sometimes have to take shelter behind the slightest suggestion you unearth that you may not be “slipping off the pace” and/or otherwise becoming generally redundant and therefore in need of being placed in the [...]

January 31, 2021 // 0 Comments

Coming home to roost?

Overnight – in my terms at least, given my standard waking schedule involves me going to bed at 8.00pm and getting up for my day shift somewhere between midnight and 1.30am – the big “breaking” news has been centred around the massive row developing between the EU and Britain over the [...]

January 30, 2021 // 0 Comments

A sense of achievement

Like no doubt many Rusters from time to time I have been prey to different moods during the course of the UK’s version of the Covid-19 crisis. My “go to” quip for many months from March 2020 onwards was that, for me, the restrictions imposed upon us during Lockdown 1 amounted to little more [...]

January 29, 2021 // 0 Comments

Reflections upon an unwelcome milestone

Yesterday the UK had to come to terms with the sobering news that our total number of deaths so far due to the Covid-19 virus has just passed 100,000. From memory I can recall that one of our boffin masters – almost certainly either Professor Chris Witty (chief medical officer) or Sir Patrick [...]

January 27, 2021 // 0 Comments

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

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