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The Trinity Six/Charles Cumming

I am becoming a fan of espionage writer Charles Cumming having read and reviewed  favourably The Colder War.  Previous novels feature his hero Thomas Kell a wizard of detection through computer hacking and mobile surveillance and the French head of MI6 Amelie. The Trinity Six goes back in time to [...]

November 16, 2016 // 0 Comments

The art of muddling through

Today I wish to begin with four famous quotations. Whilst we are all aware of Lord Acton’s famous statement ‘Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely’ we sometimes forget that it continued ‘Great men are almost always bad men’’. The American journalist and social [...]

November 15, 2016 // 0 Comments

Abel Gance’s NAPOLEON

Abel Gance’s epic 1927 movie Napoleon is one of the most famous, important and influential movies of all time. Way back in the 1980s I went to see a ‘live’ performance of a restored version of it (with original new accompanying music by Carl Davis) staged in London by Thames [...]

November 11, 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

Remembering WW1

Yesterday I was privileged to be invited to an august institution for special screening of a new documentary film commemorating the connection between a particular sport and its contribution to the First World War. Its intentions were noble – to commemorate those players who had died or been [...]

November 8, 2016 // 0 Comments

There’s always one

I always enjoy reading a good, strong, biased rant and here’s a classic I came across today – from The Independent‘s (is it?) Middle East correspondent Robert Fisk who in my book practically operates as an anti-Western ‘First Nation’ – pro-Palestinian, [...]

November 4, 2016 // 0 Comments

Trying to make sense of it all

Sitting locked away in my bunker, surveying a world that seems simultaneously to have discarded judgement and reason and thereby become become appreciably more dangerous, I wondered whether Rust readers might benefit from being recommended this link to an article by John Harris, as appears today on [...]

October 28, 2016 // 0 Comments

Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right

Yesterday it was announced that Bob Dylan had been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. It says plenty about both the stature and importance of both Dylan and the Nobel Prize organisation itself that – save perhaps among some groups of literary elitist critics, pedants and those whose [...]

October 14, 2016 // 0 Comments

Stalemate in the wee hours

My past 24 hours was somewhat dominated by the second US presidential election (Donald Trump v Hillary Clinton) TV debate which took place from 2.00am this morning. After having a relatively quiet Sunday – reading the papers, watching the Andrew Marr Show and then then Sunday Politics, snoozing [...]

October 10, 2016 // 0 Comments

Money and sport

What has struck me recently about some of the developments in the world of sport is the fact that, as a branch of the entertainment business, its governors and administrators are constantly wrestling with the fundamental issues of attracting the paying public, television (or online) viewers and – [...]

September 16, 2016 // 0 Comments

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