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Sussex role in T20 win

Like many a contributor on the Rust, I am a traditionalist and when it comes to cricket I much prefer the red ball game. However it is not every day – indeed not any day- that two Sussex bowlers have opened for their country so I watched Tyman Mills and Chris Jordan yesterday do so. There is [...]

January 27, 2017 // 0 Comments

Berlin Red/ Sam Eastland

Publishing is like most industries: if your competitors have a successful product, copy it. In 1989 Philip Kerr, a copywriter at Saatchi and Saatchi, wrote The March Violets set in Nazi Germany in the thirties and introduced to us the cop Bernie Gunther. Gunther was like Raymond Chandler’s [...]

January 26, 2017 // 0 Comments

Tennis at Melbourne

Both as a player and now a spectator and commentator Melbourne is my favourite tournament. Some may be surprised it’s not Wimbledon but there’re is too much flummery, too many camera takes of which A-lister celeb is sitting in the Royal Box, the strawberries and cream and other food is [...]

January 25, 2017 // 0 Comments

Lalaland- worth 7 Golden Globes?

The short answer is no. To justify these accolades a musical must have a better score and Lalaland barely has one memorable song. Think of the great MGM musicals of the fifties, Singing in the Rain, My Fair Lady, Gigi and the songs are memorable. The much and justifiably revived Oliver! does not [...]

January 23, 2017 // 0 Comments

The Tanner Report/ QPR 1 Fulham 1

There are three good reasons why Fulham may fail to make the play-offs: 1) we cannot translate possession and supremacy into goals; 2) we make silly defensive errors virtually every game 3) our keeper is not good enough. QPR boss Ian Holloway set out his stall (commentary cliche c. 1998) to [...]

January 22, 2017 // 0 Comments

Jeff and Ridley Road Market

In these days when every human pleasure carries a government health warning the company of my unashamedly non-PC pal Jeff is always a joy. Yesterday it was my turn to take him to lunch and we went to Cote where the food is reliable and the prices fair. When it came to ordering, there was no [...]

January 20, 2017 // 0 Comments

Picasso’s ceramics

Like many of genius Picasso had a restless spirit. That spirit might explain why he went through so many periods – blue, pink, cubist and experimented in so many different media. In 1947 when his artistic and political fame (he was a director of the Prado during the Spanish Civil War and [...]

January 19, 2017 // 0 Comments

EAST WEST STREET/PHILIPPE SANDS

EAST WEST STREET is a portrait of two eminent jurists and an investigation into the antecedents of international human rights lawyer Phillippe Sands. The common denominator is Lviv, a city sometimes in Poland but now in Ukraine as the two lawyers, Hirsch Lauterpacht and Raphael Lemkin both lived in [...]

January 18, 2017 // 0 Comments

Pargie’s Sporting Weekend

I was let down in the golf where my two punts Rory Mcilroy and Jordan Spieth finished runners up and third respectively  in the BMW European event in Johannesburg and the Sony USPGA at Hawaii. The former was won by Graeme Storm who very nearly lost his European tour card. He was 100 euros light [...]

January 17, 2017 // 0 Comments

Fiorentina 2 Juventus 1

Juve defender Banucci surely made an error in saying this was only another match for his team. For la Viola it is the game of the season, an opportunity to set right the penalty awarded and scored by Liam Brady at Catanzaro and the one denied to us at Cagliari that presented the 1981 scudetto to [...]

January 16, 2017 // 0 Comments

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