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Black cab v Uber

We debate many things on The Rust but so far this is the first time we have considered the above transportation issue. When it comes to travel I am bit of a Luddite. My concerns with travel in the digital age are that my mobile might run out of juice, there is no back up phone number, and the [...]

July 28, 2018 // 0 Comments

Weimar Cabaret /The Barbican Theatre

In my last post I reviewed a nonogenerian still going strong (Burt Bacharach) and now an octogenarian Barry Humphries, still performing with aplomb. Born in Melbourne in 1934, law and philosophy graduate Humphries is something of a renaissance man. He starred in Oliver! as Fagin in the sixties but [...]

July 27, 2018 // 0 Comments

Crime update

There has been some progress in the investigation of the theft of my wallet which I can share with you. There is a case officer assigned who updates me. There is team that deals with the CCTV footage and yet another person contacted me, tasked to take a statement over the phone yesterday. No [...]

July 26, 2018 // 0 Comments

A sign of our times

If I had to nominate a sign of our times it would be the mobile phone. Yesterday I had lunch with an old friend and left my mobile phone unintentionally at home. I found this a liberating experience. I noted that, whilst my friend apologised for asking to send an urgent text when I left the table [...]

July 25, 2018 // 0 Comments

Our Friends in Berlin/Anthony Quinn

At The Rust we do have our pet topics and debates: sporting attendance v TV watching; Simon Campion-Brown’s anarchic – some might say sclerotic – view of the body politic; and here in the book review department these last few months we have become rather obsessed with British fascism [...]

July 24, 2018 // 0 Comments

A viewer’s view

We coach potatoes have our likes and dislikes when it comes to commentators and analysts. I sometimes wonder that one of the reasons why the Rust advocates no attendance as it saves sending out the chief sports correspondent, normally one of the highest paid on the paper, possessed of a creative [...]

July 22, 2018 // 0 Comments

Experiencing Rose and a stimulating conversation

In the week I went to a wine tasting on non Provençal roses. Roses account for 11% of all wine sold in the UK. It’s an interesting case study on how wine tastes change. In the 70s and 80s it was unfashionable with consumers and unrated by the wine critics. Its introduction to the UK came [...]

July 21, 2018 // 0 Comments

Alpe d’Huez and 1st Day of Open

After such an enjoyable World Cup, I feared the After The Party syndrome but yesterday afternoon’s sport watched on the Pargiter sofa was as good as it gets. I settled on the crucial mountain stage of Alpe d’Huez. With its 21 hairpin bends and steepling ascents it would surely determine at the [...]

July 20, 2018 // 0 Comments

On the attack!

Recently I have adopted a more aggressive approach to inadequate service. In the past I railed to my friends about poor quality service but now I take a tougher approach with the company itself. It started with my Glyndebourne picnic company. The cold tomato soups were all omitted. My guest was so [...]

July 19, 2018 // 0 Comments

Tour de France

With the World Cup and Wimbledon, the Tour de France had had to take third billing which is a shame as it’s an intriguing competition this year with many issues. First, would Chris Froome be allowed to ride and if he did would he win his 6th Tour and 4th successively; could Mark Cavendish [...]

July 18, 2018 // 0 Comments

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