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10 most influential sporting figures

I have been participating in a list of the 10 most influential sporting figures. The key words are influential and figure.   The subjects need not necessarily be sports people and must have changed their sport. Thus I listed Bosman and Jimmy Hill, average footballers but game changers, ahead of [...]

April 30, 2020 // 0 Comments

The Battle of the Atlantic/Jonathan Dimbleby

There is a new type of historian about – one who is not an academic but in the media, like Sir Max Hastings or Jonathan Dimbleby who has written the above account which I read as an audio book  narrated by him. Like most history books it is far too long and would benefit from editing. It is [...]

April 29, 2020 // 0 Comments

The Reunion/radio 4

Yesterday was the last in the Reunion series presented by Sue MacGregor. I have written before how much I enjoy it. A group gather before Sue MacGregor and remember a past event in which they were all involved. Yesterday’s topic was the young girl singers of the sixties: the contributors were [...]

April 27, 2020 // 0 Comments

Becoming Matisse/BBC 2

In any art programme the presenter is all. Will he/she let the paintings speak for themselves or will they interpose themselves? In this programme it soon became obvious that the presenter Sophie Matisse was the latter. She’s the great granddaughter of Henri Matisse, the granddaughter of Pierre [...]

April 26, 2020 // 0 Comments

Philip Roth/aid to constipation

I am reading Philip Roth’s American Pastoral. To be more exact I’m reading it on the loo and finding it beneficial to the mild constipation from which I suffer. It’s a mighty tome and like many of Roth’s novels about his upbringing in Newark, New Jersey. The story  is of a magnificent [...]

April 25, 2020 // 0 Comments

Balcony life

Every day I take my morning constitutional around Brighton Marina. Pre-virus, you rarely heard any inter-balcony chat, now it is very much a feature of life. It reminds me of the film of Till Death Do Us part when Alf Garnett would sit on the outside bog for ages chatting to his neighbour on his. I [...]

April 24, 2020 // 0 Comments

A week is a long time …

Last week I praised my local supermarket ASDA over the efficiency and courtesy shown when I  did my weekly shop. Today I castigate it. I returned at roughly the same time yesterday and was agreeably surprised to see a shorter queue. I duly waited in it till 8.00am for its opening. There was [...]

April 23, 2020 // 0 Comments

The greatest sporting teams

The present somewhat sleepy sports desk of the Rust has been stirred to life by an email Alan Tanner received from a group of Irish and American Fulham supporters with their list of the best  sporting sides. The list reflected their provenance with Gaelic football teams and US College teams in [...]

April 22, 2020 // 0 Comments

In Praise of Rod Liddle and Dale Campbell-Savours

Last Sunday Rod Liddle in The Sunday Times delivered a stinging attack on scientists and their inability to agree. He particularly had in his sights Professor Neil Ferguson of Imperial College who has form of over-estimating deaths in bird flu, swine flu and mad cow disease. One of the problems, [...]

April 21, 2020 // 0 Comments

Who Do You Think I Am?

This is the latest Juliette Binoche film set in social media and the fantasy relationships it can generate. Juliette Binoche plays Clare Milaud, a fifty something professor of French literature. After her husband leaves her for a younger woman and her lover Ludo rejects her, she tries a new [...]

April 20, 2020 // 0 Comments

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