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Accident in Glasgow: an explanation

Two years ago almost exactly to the day, I was staying in a hotel near Maidenhead with one of my favourite poppets. I was chatting from the bath when I began to cough and mid-sentence passed out. Had my friend been less astute I would not be writing this. Next thing I knew I had the rather [...]

December 24, 2014 // 0 Comments

We’re all special cases now

According to a Radio Five Live contributor, the obesity epidemic in Britain already costs the NHS a staggering £5 billion per annum. This fact came winging into my brain in the wee hours this morning, just after I had spent yesterday reading reports of a new European Court of Justice ruling that [...]

December 19, 2014 // 0 Comments

A good doctor

Yesterday I met with a private doctor locally I was recommended. I have a GP but on the two occasions I visited the surgery I had to wait over 45 minutes.. Recommendation is a powerful resource but in checking up on the doctor personally I was heartened that he studied and qualified at the [...]

December 19, 2014 // 0 Comments

Counting the cost

As everyone knows, the issues surrounding growing and/or being old are some of the most pressing for modern society – not least because of increasing human longevity and the attendant alleged under-shooting of actuarial projections as to how the potential costs to the taxpayer of [...]

December 16, 2014 // 0 Comments

The saga continues

We at the National Rust make no apology for our continuing interest in the use of performing-enhancing drugs in sport. At this moment in time there are hard-hitting stories brewing about cycling [Wow! Quelle surprise!] and two recent German television documentaries alleging that a household-name [...]

December 11, 2014 // 0 Comments

A warning to heed?

Nobody who has any knowledge or experience of modern elite sport would deny that the near-constant commercial and other pressures place enormous strain upon athletes and (where appropriate) their teams and coaching staff. There are some sports in which over-playing, tiredness and [...]

December 10, 2014 // 0 Comments

The slippery slope

It is in the spirit of the urgings of our esteemed editor that – in amongst anything else we might offer – we should shed light upon our descent into senility by noting aspects of our decline whenever we come across them that I begin my post today. The past 36 hours have not been amongst my [...]

December 9, 2014 // 0 Comments

An awkward topic

Life is finite – there’s no getting around it. I think it was in a self-written film scene that Woody Allen once quipped “I don’t fear death – I just don’t want to be there when it happens”, but it’s certainly the case that the approaching end of a life (and the surrounding issues [...]

November 28, 2014 // 0 Comments

Missing the point

Over the weekend we had a visit from my brother’s family. Upon their arrival drinks were served and we sat out on the terrace in the surprisingly warmish November sunshine to catch up with each other’s news. After the more voluble had given us their potted summaries, I turned to my younger [...]

November 17, 2014 // 0 Comments

Getting a grip

I called my father last night in order to discuss our arrangements for the remainder of the week. First, however, he wished to tell me about his expedition earlier in the day from the coast to central London in order to have lunch with an old friend – in both senses of the word – at an hotel in [...]

November 6, 2014 // 0 Comments

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