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Michel Bacos

It’s appropriate to honour the life and passing of Nice resident Michel Bacos who was pilot of the Air France plane hijacked in July 1976 by a Palestinian terrorist group whose hostages were ultimately saved by Israeli commandos led by Yonattan Netanyahu elder brother of the Israeli PM. There is [...]

March 30, 2019 // 0 Comments

Celebrating those who empathise with the past….

A recurrent theme on the Rust is the difficulty we oldies have in dealing with the present world of internet, diversity and political correctness. The Leave campaign in the referendum maximised this with the slogan “Take back control” which promotes the restoration of British values of yore. [...]

February 19, 2019 // 0 Comments

Art/Chichester Festival Theatre

I first saw Art some 25 years at the Wyndham Theatre with a strong cast of Albert Finney, Tom Courtenay and Ken Stott. I remembered it as a comedy about the acquisition of a piece of expensive art being a totally white canvas for £200,000 and the effect of this on a group of old friends who [...]

February 1, 2019 // 0 Comments

The Eagle Has Landed (1976)

I am a great fan of war movies and even a bad one engages me. The Eagle Has Landed is a bad one. There is nothing wrong with a strong cast led by Michael Caine including Robert Duvall, Donald Sutherland, Anthony Quayle , Larry Hagman and Donald Pleasance. It was the daft plot – a Nazi attempt [...]

January 7, 2019 // 0 Comments

Today’s sporting world

Spotted upon the website of The Guardian today, two items relevant to the Rust’s sporting campaigns for 2019. I give you:   PERFORMANCE-ENHANCING DRUGS Rusters will be familiar with our stance on this subject, i.e. zero tolerance – first, foremost and last. Here’s a report upon a latest [...]

January 7, 2019 // 0 Comments

Reflections upon a November day

My post today springs from of a combination of some personal reflections upon modern life as it is and a report by Josh Gabbatiss that I read today upon the UN’s latest warning on the existential threat that climate change represents to the human race, as appears upon the website of The [...]

November 28, 2018 // 0 Comments

Happy days are here again!

You have to laugh sometimes at the world. Here’s a link to an article by Zoie O’Brien on the subject of the latest ‘Snowflake’, Millennial, feminist PC-brigade initiative we all absolutely need to be aware of, as appears today upon the website of the – DAILY [...]

November 27, 2018 // 0 Comments

What’s going on? What’s going on?

(As the late, great, Marvin Gaye once warbled …) On the Rust – given our supposed demographic, thought I might add that according to recent Google Analysis research 27% of our web visitors are aged between 18 and 24 – it may not surprise regular readers to learn that we are used to being [...]

November 24, 2018 // 0 Comments

Summing up Sri Lanka

Cricketers, like most international sportsmen, live in a bubble. I do try to understand the culture and politics of any country I visit. Sri Lanka is in constitutional and economic meltdown. The President has attempted to displace the Prime Minister with his own choice and at present there is an [...]

November 21, 2018 // 0 Comments

Providing solutions to world sport’s biggest issues

Today we offer the first of a new series of Rust articles, doing exactly what it says on the tin [see headline above]. For our inaugural piece, we have opted to provide an explanation designed to assist Manchester United fans – and indeed all other followers of soccer around the globe [...]

November 13, 2018 // 0 Comments

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