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In a Lonely Place

Normally I watch a film from my extensive library, rent it via Amazon, or watch one on Netflix more designed for the young viewer. Occasionally I am drawn by a film on television on one of the movie channels and this occasion was last week’s In a Lonely Place. I was influenced by a strong cast of [...]

September 7, 2022 // 0 Comments

Transgender issues and common sense

I’m all for freedom of choice  – within reason, of course, not least provided that this doesn’t involve harm to others and taking into account the primacy of the principle that the pursuit of the greatest good for the greatest number is generally a “good thing” by [...]

September 7, 2022 // 0 Comments

The travails of my printer and modern consumerism

Although frustration in the digital age is a common topic on the Rust, here I will put it in the context of modern consumerism. It’s all to do with my Canon Printer which about a month ago only copied and printed in blank. At first I thought the cartridges needed replacement. First point: [...]

September 6, 2022 // 0 Comments

The Tanner Report: Spurs 2 Fulham 1

2-1 was not a bad result. However only poor finishing, great goalkeeping by our Bernd Leno and tenacious defending by Tim Ream and Tosin prevented a bigger defeat. I was especially interested to see the new Spurs stadium. I had been told that it took stadium design to a whole new level (9 levels to [...]

September 4, 2022 // 0 Comments

Persuasion/Jane Austen

Reading this classic novel raises the question of the extent to which any reader can appreciate a book of little relevance to our times. Jane Austen’s world is the one of the genteel aristocracy – privileged, snobbish, devoid of work – where ambition is social and gossip peddled. It [...]

September 2, 2022 // 0 Comments

University Challenge/60 years on

This week celebrated the 60th anniversary of  University Challenge when the popular quiz show returned to out screens last Monday with Durham v Bristol. After this the BBC broadcasted  a programme celebrating its 60th anniversary from its inception on Granada when presented by Bamber Gascoigne. [...]

September 1, 2022 // 0 Comments

Sharks and Seagulls falter

Yesterday I went to Hove for the semi final of the Royal London Cup between Sussex Sharks and Lancashire Lightning. Lancashire won the toss and surprisingly elected to bat. It seemed a strange decision as there is moisture in the air off the sea at Hove in the morning which favours the bowling [...]

August 31, 2022 // 0 Comments

The Reunion

The Reunion on Radio 4 is a much admired programme on the Rust and last week it featured and reunited those primarily involved in the May 1997 chess encounter between World Champion Gary Kasparov and a IBM computor called Deep Blue. Kasparov, who won 2-1, was contemptuous of the computer – [...]

August 30, 2022 // 0 Comments

adieu Lyndhurst House

I was saddened to hear of the closure of my prep school Lyndhurst House which I attended between 1960 and 67. It was one of those huge, rambling houses in Hampstead with teachers that reminded me in their eccentricity of Evelyn Waugh’s Decline and Fall.   Overseeing it all was a northern [...]

August 29, 2022 // 0 Comments

The Tanner Report: Arsenal 2 Fulham 1

Fulham have never won at Highbury, nor the Emirates, and – despite having taken the lead on the hour – I was never confident we would. We played with resilience in dealing with everything that a pacy Arsenal could throw at us. It took a wicked deflection ( why are all [...]

August 29, 2022 // 0 Comments

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