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And now for something completely different

Over the years the future course of the BBC and all that goes with it has snuck up on the inside rail, some might think somewhat against the odds, to become one of our regular “hot topics”. Rusters will have noticed that it has recently been shooting up the priority list of London-centric [...]

January 25, 2020 // 0 Comments

A sense of smug satisfaction …

For my sins one of my minor hobby interests is spotting media howlers and overnight I alighted upon a minor but typical one on the website of the Daily Mail which today I thought I’d share with Rusters. Below is a link to an opinion piece by Daily Mail columnist Richard Littlejohn on the news [...]

November 15, 2019 // 0 Comments

The name on the Trophy

With the Rugby World Cup almost upon us – it begins on Friday morning (UK time) – it is currently the ‘Phoney War’ moment during which the media to provides us with a blizzard of copy about every aspect of the country, the culture, the competing teams and indeed every [...]

September 17, 2019 // 0 Comments

A la Colthard: Verona restaurants

I’ve had 3 meals – all lunches – in our hotel as it’s hit over 37 degrees here and I prefer the air conditioned dining room to the brutal midday heat. The tour has organised trips to a different hostelry every night. The first night we went round the corner to the Osteria Verona [...]

July 25, 2019 // 0 Comments

ICC makes a rick

When you are planning a World Cup you would have thought that you would have engaged a leading local weather expert and above all a contingency plan for rain. It’s a rare British summer that is not affected by rain. So far 4 matches have been abandoned over rain, three without a ball bowled. [...]

June 14, 2019 // 0 Comments

A glorious day at Arundel

I prefer Arundel week to anything else in the sporting calendar. Nothing surpasses the sheer beauty of the cricket ground bordered by old trees with one gap in them to see the river Arun and downs. You can see the Duke of Norfolk’s castle and the cathedral. It’s short of stands with one [...]

June 12, 2019 // 0 Comments

A star is struck

The first fund I bought 5 years ago when I had a windfall was Neil Woodford’s flagship Equity Income Fund. Everyone in finance had heard of his brilliant stewardship of Investco funds when he out-performed the market and avoided the dot.com bubble. However, when I had lunch soon after its [...]

June 11, 2019 // 0 Comments

Speaking as it is

One of the joys of working and writing for the Rust is you can speak your mind without being hauled into the editor’s office or being mauled on social media. Thus I make no apology for saying that I have not watched one moment of the Women’s Football World Cup. I will not do so until [...]

June 10, 2019 // 0 Comments

The US PGA ( first day)

It’s rare for me to post during a tourney but such was Brooks Koepka’s record breaking round of 63 that I was permitted. Beth Page (black), the course this year, is so tough that it carries a warning sign for the good club golfer to keep away. In a country associated with high-charging country [...]

May 17, 2019 // 0 Comments

A ‘good in parts’ dose of Sunday night TV

Yesterday I had returned home from a demanding weekend in the country, made myself a late lunch and then retired to my pit. As a result I slept for two and a half hours straight, partly because I felt exhausted and partly because it was going to be my only route to staying up long enough to see the [...]

April 1, 2019 // 0 Comments

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