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The art of modern politics

There is a cute but erroneous notion going the rounds that we only let the Rust’s political columnist Simon Campion-Brown out of his box now and again for fear of alienating readers of a sensitive disposition (not least our own staffers) with some of his hairier views upon those who inhabit the [...]

November 20, 2016 // 0 Comments

An act of plucky Brit defiance hits its mark

[The events recorded in this post occurred yesterday and regular readers will be familiar with my suspicion that I am under constant surveillance by organs of the British Government in its attempt to persecute me for spurious driving offences, most particularly speeding on UK roads. For the above [...]

November 19, 2016 // 0 Comments

Hartsbourne

I have always been fascinated by great houses. It’s not so much the architecture and grounds but those that lived and stayed in them. Melanie Gay, knowing that I always want to learn more about places I have visited or intend to, recommended me a book called the Riviera Set by Mary Lovell. I [...]

November 18, 2016 // 0 Comments

Why does it always happen to me?

About forty-five years ago I came across a couple roughly my parents’ age who ran a preparatory school. Both were steeped in academia and the wife, interested in linguistics, was a huge fan of Noam Chomsky’s seminal tome Theory Of Universal Grammar Is Right; It’s Hardwired Into Our Brains [...]

November 18, 2016 // 0 Comments

A welcome re-wind

Completely by chance, over the last six months, I have become involved in a semi-commercial business project – if that is the appropriate description for something that in the final analysis and scale of multi-national corporate activities is infinitely modest. As the deadline for its launch has [...]

November 16, 2016 // 0 Comments

A la Colthard/Stanmer House

Stanmer House is described as Brighton’s best kept secret. It’s a country house set in large park adjacent to the main university campus at Falmer opposite the Amex stadium on the A27. Normally when you visit any park you are first confronted by a whole raft of prohibitions: ‘No [...]

November 14, 2016 // 0 Comments

It’s all relative

Yesterday I was sitting in front of the television chatting to my 91-year old father. Somehow the death of Robert Vaughn aged 82 – best known to Brits from the ancient TV series The Man From Uncle and/or the movie The Magnificent Seven – came up. My parent commented, apparently without [...]

November 13, 2016 // 0 Comments

A close shave on a shopping expedition

Sometimes, looking back, the little things that happen to you seem to give you access to insights upon more universal matters – such occurred to me yesterday. I’ve been at the stage for a while now where not only do those close to me tease about supposed ‘senior moments’ or possible [...]

November 12, 2016 // 0 Comments

Time and life

It’s a slightly strange thing – but possibly these days a more frequent one – being an old age pensioner whilst still having one of your parents alive, but that is my lot in life. That phrase ‘that is my lot in life’ has undertones that I wish it wasn’t this way, but it won’t [...]

November 9, 2016 // 0 Comments

In the wee small hours

All my life I have ‘suffered’ from partial insomnia, frequently awaking during the night and for several hours in the early hours. I have deliberately put ‘suffered’ in inverted commas as there is a tendency to regard wakefulness as some sort of disorder if not depression. [...]

November 9, 2016 // 0 Comments

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