Author: Malcolm Blair-Robinson

Brexit: Now It’s For Real

February 3, 2017 By Malcolm Blair-Robinson

The authority for the prime minister to go ahead and trigger Article 50 is now approved by a big parliamentary majority from MPs, most of whom actually campaigned in the referendum for Remain. But the accepted political reality is that although MPs have the right to vote according to their own judgement and not according to the wishes of […]

Book Of The Moment: Purple Killing

February 1, 2017 By Malcolm Blair-Robinson

Dr. Rachael Benedict is an American historian and a best-selling author. Through the death of her estranged father she sets out to expose secrets from the Nazi era, which are so sensitive they have been subject to an extensive cover-up lasting seventy years.  This provokes a killing spree as parts of the security services of both Britain and […]

Living With Trump

February 1, 2017 By Malcolm Blair-Robinson

This Blog was, like most of the rest of the world, incensed by the the arbitrary travel ban, as the previous post explains, for two main reasons. Its implementation was incompetent, nobody seemed to be able to agree what it meant, and hundreds of travelers were caught mid-journey by the apparent invalidation of legal documents […]

Trump Presidency: After One Week, Disaster.

January 30, 2017 By Malcolm Blair-Robinson

It was not about more stringent vetting, nor about protecting America’s borders. It was about breathtaking incompetence, muddled thinking, a failure to consult, liaise, inform, consider and programme. It was about ruling by decree, outside the law, without regard to consequences and blind to knock on effects. It traumatized and distressed innocent travelers with lawful […]

Downfall In Downing Street: Enjoy Now

January 28, 2017 By Malcolm Blair-Robinson

Set in the mid nineteen nineties, this fast moving thriller lifts the curtain on sex, sleaze and corruption in high places as the long reign of the government totters to an end, following the ousting of the iconic Margaret Thatcher. The novel catches the mood of those times with a host of fictional characters who engage […]

Foreign Policy Reversal: At Last!

January 27, 2017 By Malcolm Blair-Robinson

The May government is suddenly coming to life. It began as if mesmerized by the aura of power, allowing drift and inaction in the country while engaging in rows within itself. Then came Trump. Somehow this energised the reformers to crush those who bumble their way through the glum political landscape of the status quo […]