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Land line v Skype

A few years ago a good friend of mine and I would speak on the phone every Sunday religiously. He is extremely well-informed in most areas and I cherished those conversations. We decided to revive them. We went back to our traditional means of communication – the landline. We had an unwritten [...]

March 28, 2020 // 0 Comments

What goes around comes around

Returning from my own self-isolation purdah – from about May of 2019 I’ve been sparing in my Rust contributions largely because, the way the world was going, there seemed little point in continuing to air my unflinchingly cynical views upon political matters for fear of boring this organ’s [...]

March 28, 2020 // 0 Comments

Teething problems with a new fitness campaign

As Rusters share their experiences of the Coronavirus lock-down here comes an Ingolby dispatch from the front line as I begin my latest doomed fitness campaign. Being one of the freelance Rust correspondents laid off by the publishers on Monday who received a batch of Huwaei smartphones as a [...]

March 27, 2020 // 0 Comments

Hanks For The Memory

Almost from its inception from time to time The Rust has featured a selection of lists. We love them. Most importantly, in times like these, they can be a reliable kicking-off point for conversations and arguments. Inevitably, in the nature of human things, nothing is quite as simple as you might [...]

March 27, 2020 // 0 Comments

Stuff keeps happening

As part of an assistance drive for Rusters, we occasionally provide a linking service to media stories that have caught the eye. Here are some from the UK  newspapers today: POLITICS Firstly, the latest piece by Tom Peck which appears today upon the website of – THE INDEPENDENT Next, that [...]

March 26, 2020 // 0 Comments

Taking things in the round

As usual I spent a large proportion of yesterday listening to the BBC’s Radio Five Live in a variety of fashions. The most enlightening of these for me personally, being an oldie, was the moment that, when out in mid-afternoon on my “one per day” permitted exercise outing, complete with my [...]

March 26, 2020 // 0 Comments

Two days into lock-down …

It’s still early days yet, of course, but as an oldie I am gradually settling into this ‘self-isolation’ lark – that’s an attempt at a quip, by the way, this is obviously a very serious situation and one shouldn’t be flippant, but by the same token, for Pete’s sake(!), you’ve got to [...]

March 25, 2020 // 0 Comments

It’s tough out there when fundamentals don’t work

The subject of elite women’s sport is a vexed one in which aspiration, political-correctness and straightforward business reality collide with a distinctive but compelling thud. Here on The Rust we take no particular delight in occasionally drawing attention to, or commenting upon, some of [...]

March 24, 2020 // 0 Comments

A walk by the sea

Yesterday I went with my friends from London for a walk by the sea. The coastal air did us good. There were were quite few others doing the same. One of my friends commented that it was the last hurrah. The problem is that the more the government tells people to isolate, the more they are inclined [...]

March 23, 2020 // 0 Comments

Let’s get serious about where all this is going!

With some trepidation because I am steeping into dark waters today – if Tom H. and his crew on the Rust’s sports team will permit me –  but I’ve suddenly come to realisation that I’m sure will also have occurred to some of our astute readers about the position to which elite sport [...]

March 22, 2020 // 0 Comments

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