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Fasten your seat-belts!

A confession. This morning when I came to the computer  I had originally considered apologising for returning to this subject again so soon but then I had second thoughts. Why on earth should I worry, if nobody else isn’t? After all the bizarreness of the world news hit us in 2016, there’s [...]

January 12, 2017 // 0 Comments

Twelve more months

After what might be regarded as the ‘traumas’ of 2016 suffered by the world of Western politics generally, it has been predicted by a number of pundits, commentators and indeed some politicians themselves that we’re going to be in for a pretty rough ride over the next twelve months. One [...]

January 10, 2017 // 0 Comments

East is east and west is west or is it?

Although it is undoubtedly a convenience to disembark with minimal formalities the excursions on Vietnam have been unsatisfying. To be fair a shuttle bus is laid on and you can do your own thing – a phrase not generally applied to cruise life. I also suspect that never forgetting this is [...]

December 28, 2016 // 0 Comments

The application of common sense

About this terrorist attack on the market in the centre of Berlin, its aftermath and the bloody end of the Tunisian Anis Amri, widely suspected to have being the main perpetrator, in Milan after a European-wide manhunt – pardon me, but am I missing something? Let me begin by mentioning a couple [...]

December 24, 2016 // 0 Comments

Floundering in aspic?

Is it just me, or is the new Tory government regime under Mrs May distinctly under-impressive it its performance? Whether it’s a matter of fact, or just an impression I’ve gained, but it doesn’t seem to be scoring many runs at the moment. The common view within the Westminster ‘bubble’ is [...]

December 13, 2016 // 0 Comments

Well now they’ve really got to do SOMETHING

Yesterday’s revelations by Canadian Professor Richard McLaren of the US Anti-Doping Agency about Russia’s systematic state-organised doping programme between 2011 and 2015 must stand as one of the most courageous and forthright condemnations of cheating in the chequered history of world sport. [...]

December 10, 2016 // 0 Comments

And so it comes to this

I don’t know about you, but sometimes I wake up in the night and go on the newspaper websites to catch up with what’s happening and wish I hadn’t bothered. A lady could get depressed reading the doom-mongering stuff being put about in the media. Never mind Brexit, Donald Trump, Syria, [...]

December 9, 2016 // 0 Comments

Aha! At last I think I’m ‘getting’ it …

Let me explain how you – okay, what I really mean is I – can hold two on-the face-of-it completely contradictory political views at the same time. It’s as simple as this. Firstly, I take the view it is a given that democracy (in its Western liberal ‘one man, one vote’ form) is a decidedly [...]

November 29, 2016 // 0 Comments

Phew! It’s tough even keeping up

We live in what can be described as ‘interesting’ times – what with Jeremy Corbyn becoming leader of the Labour Party, the EU Referendum and Brexit, Donald Trump becoming US President-elect, Mr Putin’s Russia continuing to flex its geo-political muscles and European potentially entering a [...]

November 23, 2016 // 0 Comments

The art of modern politics

There is a cute but erroneous notion going the rounds that we only let the Rust’s political columnist Simon Campion-Brown out of his box now and again for fear of alienating readers of a sensitive disposition (not least our own staffers) with some of his hairier views upon those who inhabit the [...]

November 20, 2016 // 0 Comments

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