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Richard Rudin
A university lecturer (professor in USA!), author, and sometime broadcaster. Views expressed are my own.
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Get Your Fix On Election '66
Posted Mar 29, 2016 at Rudinblog
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Blog moved!
Please note that I am currently bi-Blogging (!) and you can find my latest post at Http://rudinblog.com Continue reading
Posted Feb 28, 2016 at Rudinblog
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Terry Wogan was even more important to our lives and to the country than we realise
“Is this the man who’s come to tell us how we should be doing it?”, he asked with a gentle smile and, (yes) a twinkle in his eye. I did a sort of ‘we are not worthy’ gesture. But I think that opening gambit was very typical of the man – quietly provocative, didn’t take himself too seriously, but at the same time could be a little bit prickly and was well aware of his value to the BBC. Continue reading
Posted Jan 31, 2016 at Rudinblog
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From the miners to Sports Direct, it's a Dickens of a life
A Christmas Carol is one of my all-time favourite books and certainly my favourite Christmas story. Although, like many of Dickens’s works, it is often criticised for being oversentimental, even mawkish, and ties up all the loose ends just too... Continue reading
Posted Dec 21, 2015 at Rudinblog
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The Tories Have Come To Bury Local Government, Not To Raise It
It’s one of those stories that leaps out at you. Partly because it’s probably something you never think about, partly because it seems so sad and partly because it tells you how society is changing. Kind of a canary in... Continue reading
Posted Nov 30, 2015 at Rudinblog
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The Row Over the Tampon Tax Could Be A Straw In the Wind
It's nearly always tax and/or wages that causes revolutions and wars, isn't it? The Peasant's Revolt in England (the subject of an excellent new book by Melvyn Bragg)...the English Civil Wars...the American war of Independence...the Bolshevik Russian Revolution...even the 1990... Continue reading
Posted Oct 31, 2015 at Rudinblog
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Corbyn may not shoot Trident but he's shooting the messsenger
Sir Humphrey Appleby (HA): It's a deterrent. Prime Minister (PM): It's a bluff. I probably wouldn't use it. HA: Yes, but they don't know that you probably wouldn't. PM: They probably do. HA: Yes, they probably know that you probably... Continue reading
Posted Sep 30, 2015 at Rudinblog
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When talking about migrants in France we need to speak English with care
"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean -- neither more nor less." "The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean so many... Continue reading
Posted Aug 11, 2015 at Rudinblog
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Why the lack of social mobility is a threat to all our futures
“They all ended up going to the City to do jobs they didn’t understand, yet ended up making oodles of money.” Nic Newman, talking about his fellow pupils at his public (private) school, quoted in article by Nicholas Hellen, 'How... Continue reading
Posted Jul 27, 2015 at Rudinblog
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Confessions of a sub-teen and middle-aged 'Avenger'
It was a baptism by fire. It was a very complicated show. The final rehearsing and taping was just a fantastic jigsaw puzzle that required guts and good fortune to get right. The camera crew were absolutely magnificent…. The Avengers... Continue reading
Posted Jun 26, 2015 at Rudinblog
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This election campaign has demeaned us all - but is no better than we deserve
Let us not be coy about this: the general election campaign, which concludes on Thursday, has been a carnival of nonsense and futility. Janan Ganesh, Financial Times, May 5 This is the 15th general election in my lifetime. But, political... Continue reading
Posted May 5, 2015 at Rudinblog
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Cheer and Droning in Las Vegas
Posted Apr 30, 2015 at Rudinblog
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Enough is enough! The deafening silence on journalists' trials from our supposed liberal press
Last Friday, at around 9.30 AM, an eerie silence descended on most of the UK. in this first solar eclipse of the social media age, all the main sites were bombarded with images of the not-quite-full eclipse, accompanied by excited... Continue reading
Posted Mar 22, 2015 at Rudinblog
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Labour's tuition fees' policy is more or less nonsense
This is the worst type of politics and is financially illiterate. If any other party was launching a policy that effectively meant poorer students would be subsidising City investment banking graduates, there would be protests in the streets. (Martin Lewis... Continue reading
Posted Feb 28, 2015 at Rudinblog
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Free expression, offence, and human rights - this is all getting ridiculous
“Freedom of expression is not just a British value or a French value. It’s not a Christian value or a secular value. It’s a fundamental human right, probably the single most important freedom we possess. If you can’t stand up... Continue reading
Posted Jan 11, 2015 at Rudinblog
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We have to sacrifice some of our privacy, but not our freedoms
The past year has seen some very disturbing trends towards censorship, if not by the state then by what we might call the mob or blob; those who are on 24/7 standby for sanctimonious outrage. We have seen in this... Continue reading
Posted Dec 28, 2014 at Rudinblog
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The opening of the Berlin Wall - real life more amazing than any fiction
Twenty-five years ago tonight I was staying at a cheap hotel in Leeds, while the legal biz for our new house was being completed. I had an early mobile phone provided by the BBC (with battery, this was the size... Continue reading
Posted Nov 9, 2014 at Rudinblog
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Shock News: The drugs DO work – which is why so many use them
Posted Oct 31, 2014 at Rudinblog
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Our broadcasting history should not be allowed to fade out
Posted Sep 8, 2014 at Rudinblog
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August 31st – A date that’ll live in anorak infamy!
Posted Aug 31, 2014 at Rudinblog
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Richard Attenborough’s death should bring Paine
Posted Aug 26, 2014 at Rudinblog
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Brothers in anoraks
Posted Aug 15, 2014 at Rudinblog
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'Hackwatch' is the new Mary Whitehouse
In their reaction to coverage of Robin Williams' death surely Hackwatch have lost any remaining credibility. I've listened to its increasingly shrill and ludicrous Director, Joan Smith, on this week's edition of The Media Show twice now and have been... Continue reading
Posted Aug 14, 2014 at Rudinblog
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Review: 'Me and Thirteen Tanks – The Tales of a Cold War Freelance Spy', by Peter McDonagh.
Posted Jul 3, 2014 at Rudinblog
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Breaking up the UK may not be so hard to do
It must seem odd for anyone under the age of about 45 to know that there was a time - and within the living memory of the working age population - when immigration from other parts of Europe into the... Continue reading
Posted Jun 29, 2014 at Rudinblog
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