A new pope – do we care?
Americans, even catholic Americans, have an odd relationship with the Vatican. The Americans send heaping...
Games we used to play
In those halcyon days of the beginning of the swinging sixties, I was a commuter...
My most amazing cultural experience…
My parents were, effectively, refugees in Britain immediately after WW2. My mum never expressed a...
Have we gone back to the 1890s?
In the case of Russia, we had our Robber Barons era back in the 1990s....
The most influential music of the 20th century
I’m rather fond of the 1920s, during which blues and jazz became established as popular...
My three most iconic images
Of course, picking only three photographs was difficult. I could easily find twenty or eighty....
The Dream Revisited
A full seven years ago, when RUSUK was in its infancy, we wrote about The...
The best news I ever had.
It was the night of the 15th October, 1987. Winds gusting up to 100 mph...
Seven years on – what’s new?
Every October we write an article looking back over some aspect of our time producing...