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Getting from here to there

This week the UK government – and I think now also the French equivalent – have announced that from 2040 it will no longer be possible to buy a new fossil-fuel (petrol or diesel) powered car. Since then climate change and ecological campaigners have attacked the decision as ‘too little and [...]

July 27, 2017 // 0 Comments

The art of staying relevant

On a personal level I am an agnostic on the issue of the British monarchy. On the face of it in the modern age monarchy as a principle seems a monumental anachronism but – as these things go – I’m prepared to accept that the British version, most probably by nothing more than a combination of [...]

July 24, 2017 // 0 Comments

A blockbuster arrives

The reviews for the movie Dunkirk which is released in Britain this Friday (21st July) – written, co-produced and directed by Christopher Nolan – are currently cascading across the newspaper pages, television and radio outlets and all across social media presumably to the delight of all [...]

July 19, 2017 // 0 Comments

What comes around

It so happens that, via a chance meeting a couple of years ago in a quite different context, this September I shall be setting off with an informal group of WW1 enthusiasts to tour a section of the battlefields of Verdun. Our plan is that, on the way back to the Eurotunnel terminal at Calais, we [...]

July 11, 2017 // 0 Comments

The charging of service

According to Wikipedia, it is believed that in Western European culture the practice of giving a tip or gratuity began around 1600 – the first reference to ‘giving a gratuity’ is apparently specifically dated to 1706 – and ‘tip’ was probably first adapted for use in a slang context from [...]

June 26, 2017 // 0 Comments

Southwold: an Earthly Paradise

For many years my second husband Laurie and I had a second home in Southwold. He is an a illustrator and taught in evening classes in Roehampton College. There a Polish student with blue eyes, glossy hair and full young breasts, none of which I possess, seduced him and our marriage broke up. We [...]

June 18, 2017 // 0 Comments

Second up …

I warned Rust readers that I’d be drawing their attention to the ongoing series of articles about the future of sport. Here’s a link to the second in the sequence – THE [...]

June 16, 2017 // 0 Comments

The future of sport

The Guardian newspaper is beginning a new series of pieces on the issues attending the future of sport. It begs the question as to which sports – and how they are marketed – will come to dominate the 21st Century. My guess would be that before too long real-life sport might just be [...]

June 14, 2017 // 0 Comments

A whole new world of possibilities

Overnight, as I was nodding off at about 8.45pm whilst listening to a Radio Five Live football discussion about how well Newcastle would  – or might likely wouldn’t – do next season in the Premier League … or possibly as I was waking up again at about 11.45pm, a bit earlier than [...]

May 20, 2017 // 0 Comments

Strange times and indeed a strange world

Yesterday (7th May) I followed my habitual Sunday morning routine of watching the Andrew Marr Show on BBC1 from 9.00am followed immediately by Nicky Campbell’s weekly audience debate show The Big Questions an hour later – whilst flicking through The Sunday Times, The Sunday Telegraph and the [...]

May 8, 2017 // 0 Comments

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