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Pull the other one, please!

We learn from media reports today today that feminist groups – and particularly eight women who were allegedly duped into having relationships with male police officers – are up in arms about a new code of practice which does not absolutely forbid undercover agents from having sex with members [...]

March 16, 2014 // 0 Comments

The right word

Yesterday I had the rather depressing task of addressing my mind to choosing a tombstone for my late parents. It was something I had put off but the deadline was approaching, so I looked at the various options of headstone. The lady at the marble mason proved helpful. In previous conversations we [...]

March 14, 2014 // 0 Comments

Time to volunteer, methinks …

A few hours ago now, I just ‘came to’ for the second time today, nipped across to pick up my papers, had a spot of breakfast and settled down in front of the BBC Breakfast Show … as you do. You can criticise me on principle for ever buying it but, for all its naffness, I do find the Daily [...]

February 25, 2014 // 0 Comments

Difficult issues

Ten days ago, at a lunch with some mates, the topic of celebrity sex-charges came up largely because the William Roche and Dave Lee Travis cases were then nearing their end. The consensus – unaided by any personal attendance at the trials and therefore based entirely our ‘reading’ of media [...]

February 16, 2014 // 0 Comments

Valentine’s Day

Call me soppy if you will, but I like St Valentine’s Day. What is the problem being romantic once a year? I composed poems for my two favourite poppets Grania and Julia. I will not publish them as: 1) they are not very good; 2) they contain in-joke;s 3) it’s none of your business. [...]

February 15, 2014 // 0 Comments

Talking to God

Earlier this week I accompanied my father to his club, where he was hosting a lunch attended by two friends, both members of an important charity board. This passed off most satisfactorily, save for the indignities of old age – as he would describe them – that are now his lot. He is markedly [...]

February 5, 2014 // 0 Comments

It’s a ‘lose-lose’ situation …

Some of our National Rust readers may have read, as I have, of the findings of a new study conducted by the University of Oslo, which are widely reported in the British media this morning. Based upon research into a range of primates, these apparently demonstrate that there is a direct correlation [...]

January 30, 2014 // 0 Comments

Not waving, but drowning

I hold to the view that one of the markers of advancing age is a gradual but inevitable disconnect from advances in modern technology. We grow up gleefully embracing them until we reach adulthood – enjoy a period of ten to fifteen years when we are pretty much ‘up to date’ – and then [...]

January 7, 2014 // 0 Comments

The right call

When was the last time you picked up the phone to call a friend? Or, put it another way, how many calls do you make in proportion to texts and emails sent? Yesterday evening, as is my wont, I was doing the Telegraph crossword, with a malt whisky and a William Kempe CD playing Beethoven in the [...]

January 7, 2014 // 0 Comments

Keeping a perspective

My husband, despite all efforts and honest intentions to the contrary, is an unreconstructed old school chauvinist. He refuses to go shopping with me, describes to my occasional woman-to-woman phone chats with girlfriends as ‘wittering’ and only yesterday cited the magazine shelves of WH Smiths [...]

January 5, 2014 // 0 Comments

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