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The Plot Against America

I promise you this is the last review you will have to read of HBO’s Plot Against America but the editor asked me to put it in a historical context. I have to start with the observation that this was not a documentary but a drama based on the fiction of Philip Roth. This said, a number of [...]

July 30, 2020 // 0 Comments

Thoughts on the Third Test

England won the Wisden Trophy to be renamed the Botham/Richards trophy notwithstanding the enormous differential in achievement between the two. What lessons do we learn from the series  ? The weather Hopefully it will now register with the powers-that-be that you cannot trust an English summer. [...]

July 29, 2020 // 0 Comments

The Tanner Report: Cardiff 0 Fulham 2

Alex Mitrovic has scored 26 of Fulham’s 64 goals this term and is top scorer in the Championship. So when it was announced that he would not be playing because of a minor hamstring injury I was most concerned then I remembered that in the 5 games in his absence we have won 4 and drawn one. His [...]

July 28, 2020 // 0 Comments

The Riviera/A History In Pictures/BBC4

Since lockdown it’s been meltdown for the travel industry and not the most upbeat of times for me. I was heartened therefore to watch a programme on the history of the art of the Riviera last week  which brought many memories of Rust trips there. The first part, narrated by Richard E Grant, [...]

July 28, 2020 // 0 Comments

The golfing weekend

Once again I was frustrated. In the European Tour event the British Masters at Close House, Newcastle, my fancy Ashley Chesters was doing well until he came a cropper in the final round shooting a 74. Italian Renato Parratore won here. Over in the States I would have retrieved something on an each [...]

July 27, 2020 // 0 Comments

The Plot Against America (in a film context)

The editor also asked me to post a review of The Plot Against America putting it in a film context. The two memorable films on this subject of creeping fascism are It Happened Here (1966) and Vittorio de Sica’s last film The Garden of the Finzi- Continis (1970).  It Happened Here was a black and [...]

July 25, 2020 // 0 Comments

The Plot Against America/Sky Atlantic

I have the advantage over some reviewers as I have read Philip Roth’s novel The Plot Against America twice. I am now three programmes into the HBO adaptation and enjoying it hugely. I do not find knowing the novel well a hindrance – more a blessing as you wonder how the actor has [...]

July 24, 2020 // 0 Comments

The Tanner Report: Wigan 1 Fulham 1

At one stage last night if Fulham had scored a second goal we would have overhauled both Brentford and WBA to achieve automatic promotion but were curiously passive so to do. There was no downside for Fulham but Wigan’s loss meant their relegation unless they can convince a court that the [...]

July 23, 2020 // 0 Comments

Second Test – assessed

Like the Wisden trophy which has gone to a decider there is much to be resolved in England’s performance. The media storm accompanying Stuart Broad’s omission in the first Test did not abate with his bowling spell to break the Windies in their first innings. In an excellent article in [...]

July 22, 2020 // 0 Comments

British War Artists / World War Two

A subject often covered on the Rust is World War One so I knew I would be fascinated when our last lesson in our course on Tuesday was on the war artists of  World War Two. War artist is a loose term. The status of war artist was not made official till 1916 and even then the output was subject to [...]

July 20, 2020 // 0 Comments

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