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How To Win The US Presidency

Last night I watched a documentary called and on HOW TO WIN THE US PRESIDENCY.  In surveying the Presidents from Washington to Obama, though referred to the 46th President Donald Trump, the programme identified the following requirements to reach the Oval Office: 1) Money 2) Message 3) Look 4) [...]

November 10, 2016 // 0 Comments

In the wee small hours

All my life I have ‘suffered’ from partial insomnia, frequently awaking during the night and for several hours in the early hours. I have deliberately put ‘suffered’ in inverted commas as there is a tendency to regard wakefulness as some sort of disorder if not depression. [...]

November 9, 2016 // 0 Comments

A la Colthard/ Grand Eastbourne and The Jetty

The Grand at Eastbourne is one of the,well, grandest hotels on the South coast. With its wide stucco facade like a wedding cake and its gracious salons it very much an old fashioned hotel of style and luxury. Claude Debusssy came to stay after his marriage packed up. Having said all of this I have [...]

November 7, 2016 // 0 Comments

The Tanner Report/Don Giovanni and a Derby win

Our editor is always keen that contributors from sport comment on artistic performance and vice versa. There used to be a music critic called Hans Keller much parodied by Private Eye who was a massive Spurs fan and these days David Mellor will go to Stamford Bridge as often as the Royal Festival [...]

November 5, 2016 // 0 Comments

Hell and Good Company/ Richard Rhodes; Land and Freedom

One of the things I  enjoy most about the Rust is the access to the knowledge of my colleagues and friends there. I have enjoyed researching into the Spanish Civil War. I asked our historian on warfare Henry Elkins for a more anecdotal historical account than the heavyweight Hugh Thomas, Paul [...]

November 4, 2016 // 0 Comments

A la Colthard/ Bucca di Lupo

Last night I visited for the first time a Soho Italian restaurant called Bucca di Lupo. Not knowing the restaurant at all I was not sure what to expect but my old friends of many years standing had recommended and chosen it. My male friend ‘s family once had a second home in Umbria and over [...]

November 3, 2016 // 0 Comments

A Tale of Two Cities/ Theatre Royal Brighton

This season the Theatre Royal have dramatised 4 well known novels: Breakfast at Tiffany’s, A Room With a View,  A Tale of Two Cities and Lady Chatterley’s Lover. It’s a challenge to set one art genre, the literary one, on another (the theatrical), but in this superb production [...]

November 2, 2016 // 0 Comments

Medical Day

Yesterday I saw no less than 3 medicos wishing to clear them all in one day. I started with my first series of vaccinations for a trip to India later in the year. I like my doctor as he is old school, very experienced and optimistic. I won’t see a GP who is rushed and does not maintain eye [...]

November 1, 2016 // 0 Comments

Concert at Brighton Dome/ the London Philarmonic

Before I review this concert which was chiefly the work of Jean Sibelius, I would like to add my ha’pporth to the continuing debate of attendance v stay at home in the context of a classical music. The argument might be that it is preferable to stay in and enjoy the same pieces on a state of [...]

October 31, 2016 // 0 Comments

Brighton and Fulham score 5

Over the past two seasons I have not always savoured the thought of our habitual post-match chat with Alan Tanner essentially for two reasons. I don’t like football supporters who gloat and Seagulls have fared better than the Cottagers and secondly, and linked to this, the reason for this [...]

October 30, 2016 // 0 Comments

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