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Time to get real?

These days the fashion industry may pay lip service to political correctness when it comes to models and dress sizes, but leopards don’t change their spots. It was ever thus during my days in Fleet Street (and yes, I was around when Twiggy first hit the headlines) but I couldn’t [...]

October 24, 2015 // 0 Comments

Uber alles?

Chatting to Bob Tickler the other day on the topic of Internet v personal shopping, he mentioned to me that the council in Brighton are shortly going to decide whether to admit the private cab firm Uber to the city. Licensed taxi cabbies  are of course much against Uber. They argue that the [...]

October 23, 2015 // 0 Comments

Someone’s got to do it!

Continuing our time-honoured tradition of bringing interesting and/or significant items of public interest to readers of the Rust – well, that’s as good an excuse as any – this morning I thought I would provide a link to this vitally-important article that appears today on the [...]

October 23, 2015 // 0 Comments

Life imitating art, or something …

The process of growing old is a strange phenomenon. As an oldie I sometimes frighten myself by how little I can remember about the past, not just in history generally but about what happened when in my own life. Having said that, ironically perhaps, it is also the case that simultaneously – [...]

October 22, 2015 // 0 Comments

How things worked out

For family reasons I had my son Barry staying with me over the weekend which was a rewarding experience as these days he lives abroad, often totally out of contact, and only makes two or three brief visits a year to these shores. By most standards he had a tough time of it as a kid. He was/is badly [...]

October 20, 2015 // 0 Comments

Getting away with it

Here’s a conundrum – as a matter of fact, is public speaking an ‘art’ or ‘skill’? And, whichever the answer, is that a matter of generally-accepted definition, or just personal opinion? I ask this because I know some people who are proficient public speakers – and have attended my [...]

October 18, 2015 // 0 Comments

What goes around comes around (again)

After a slew of circumstances which seemingly justified me not going – a business trip plus various social and domestic commitments from which I could not escape all featured – yesterday I returned to my local health club for a ‘session’ for the first time in at least a month. The immediate [...]

October 12, 2015 // 0 Comments

Putting the world to rights

Yesterday, almost before dawn, I set off to play in what – if memory serves which it probably doesn’t – my brother’s thirty-first annual golf tournament in the wilds of southern England at one of my all-time favourite golf courses. There’s no doubt this is a unique event. For the most [...]

October 10, 2015 // 0 Comments

A la Colthard/The Garrick Club

Gentleman’s clubs by their very name do not exist for the likes of me. Daddy and his generation all belonged to one. It defined your politics and status in life but was not the preserve of ladies let alone those of the Daffers stiletto heel brigade!!! This might be a reason why in some cases [...]

October 9, 2015 // 0 Comments

Going back and learning stuff

Last night I attended a firm’s annual dinner with my father. It was a fun evening and ended up with several speakers in succession paying tribute to him on their hind legs, which was a somewhat surreal but welcome circumstance for me as a family member. Why? Well, because these were tales and [...]

October 8, 2015 // 0 Comments

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