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My friend Ted

I was privileged to know Ted Dexter well these past few years so my tribute to him is more personal than some. In his obituaries you will read that he was swashbuckling, debonair, a man about town but distant and aloof. I never found him the latter and, although the obituaries spoke of distance and [...]

August 27, 2021 // 0 Comments

Lord Dismiss Us

It’s an interesting discussion which actually took place on Radio 4’s A Good Read on reaction to re-reading an old favourite. With this in mind, I recently read for the third time Lord Dismiss Us by Michael Campbell. The novel, which I suspect is strongly biographical, is set in [...]

August 26, 2021 // 0 Comments

More “Sport and Health” …

Referencing once again the Rust’s ongoing review of post-career health for those who play – or participate in – elite sport, overnight I came across a number of media stories reporting that Liverpool football legend Terry McDermott has dementia. He joins an ever-lengthening list [...]

August 22, 2021 // 0 Comments

A sense of proportion, perhaps?

From time to time, it seems to me, events or developments both at home and around the world remind us of the variety and randomness of each individual’s life chances, opportunities and indeed whatever are deemed to be our “human rights”. In the past week I have seen – on the one hand [...]

August 18, 2021 // 0 Comments

A happy encounter

Marylebone High Street is a thoroughfare where you pretty much know you will bump into someone. Thus I always allow time for the chance encounter. I had booked a table for myself at the Austrian restaurant Fischers for 6-30pm. Not having met anyone, as I approached the restaurant I was thirty [...]

August 12, 2021 // 0 Comments

Championship review

It’s no coincidence that the two relegated clubs from the Premier – WBA and Fulham – were promoted the previous season and that Norwich and Watford, who were promoted from the Championship, were themselves relegated. It’s more to do more with money than prowess. So all the more [...]

August 7, 2021 // 0 Comments

The Hundred – a blessing for the women’s game.

The Rust has often been critical of The Hundred. However in his excellent Spectator sport column Roger Alton made the good point how much the woman’s game has benefited from it. He wrote in this week’s edition:- “It’s the perfect format to engage young girls… their game is more [...]

August 7, 2021 // 0 Comments

IAN THOMSON RIP

There must be something in the Sussex air that inspires longevity as in 2018 five our of the last six surviving Test players wore the six martlet sweater of Sussex CCC: Don Smith, Hubert Doggart, Alan Oakman, Ian Thomson and Jim Parks. With the recent passing of Ian Thomson, only Jim Parks [...]

August 5, 2021 // 0 Comments

THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA

Inspired by the excellent Ken Burns documentary of Ernest Hemingway I decided to read one of his works. For Whom the Bell tolls I read at school and found it heavy going. Farewell to Arms I knew the story from the film. I’m not a reader of short stories so I plumped for the audio version of The [...]

July 30, 2021 // 0 Comments

Hemingway & Ken Burns

A colleague of mine on the Rust sent me a revealing interview with Ken Burns on documentary making. See here – THE GUARDIAN He revealed that he can take 10 years to make a documentary and – though the funding is a problem as he operates in the public broadcasting sector – he would [...]

July 21, 2021 // 0 Comments

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