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If Elvis was The King, he was The Emperor …

Little Richard was a force of nature and an all-time popular musical great who influenced teenagers the world over and set thousands of pop and rock musicians/singers on the paths that led them ultimately to either lasting glory or oblivion. Whatever was bugging you in life, nobody could Rip It Up [...]

May 10, 2020 // 0 Comments

Bombon el Perro/Bombon the dog 2004

This is an Argentinian film about a mechanic (Juan Villegas) who loses his job as a mechanic and drifts round Patagonia to find a new one. In the course of various short term jobs he accepts a large white guard dog who turns out to be pure bred. An accountant in a bank he is visiting to cash a [...]

May 5, 2020 // 0 Comments

VE-Day commemorations and something quite different

With the 75th anniversary of VE Day coming up on Friday (8th May) I had in advance ‘scheduled for recording’ last night’s 8.00pm offering on Channel Four of VE Day in Colour – Britain’s Biggest Party but then watched it as it went out anyway. As it happens I found its mix of colour and [...]

May 4, 2020 // 0 Comments

It’s all going a bit weird

When I went out for my one per day exercise walk yesterday I was both surprised and dismayed by what I came across – and that’s allowing for the fact that it was early afternoon, possibly a peak time for others to be doing similar. To be blunt it was as if I’d been asleep for a month, there [...]

May 3, 2020 // 0 Comments

A man on a mission

Michael (Lord) Ashcroft, 74, is a British born entrepreneur/businessman estimated in March 2020 to be worth £1.7 billion and a man of many parts. He officially lives ‘off shore’, retains dual citizenship with Britain and Belize, and his tax status has been a source of controversy most [...]

May 3, 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

More variations upon an unfortunate sporting theme

Back in the day – I cannot recall exactly when, it was about 1980 I think – there was a sports magazine produced in London in which an article appeared imagining a future world in which taking performance enhancing drugs had long been legitimised. The sting in the tail was that main character [...]

April 21, 2020 // 0 Comments

Reflections on a sunny day

Maybe it’s because I’ve got too much time on my hands during the lockdown but I’m beginning to get irritated by both aspects of the coverage of the current crisis and some of the ironies about the world that the UK experience has highlighted. Let me give some examples. Arguably, because of [...]

April 11, 2020 // 0 Comments

Back in the day …

In the past I have joked that I have listened to – or should that be “noticed in any real sense”(?) – very little new music since about 1984 so today Rusters should perhaps prepare themselves to be taken back to the halcyon days of the 1960s and maybe just a little beyond. [...]

April 10, 2020 // 0 Comments

George Best

George Best In the week I watched a full length documentary on George Best and was sent this clip above showcasing his wondrous dribbling skills. Undoubtedly one of the all time greats, it’s sometimes forgotten he signed for Fulham and made his debut on September 4th 1976 at home to Bristol [...]

April 5, 2020 // 0 Comments

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