Readers know that this blog always takes a measured and generally, in spite of all its flaws and assertiveness, positive view of Russia. Readers also know that my contempt for the Foreign Office analysis of what our relations with Russia ought to be, is almost total. For Americans, whilst most enemies in their history have […]
DOWNLOAD OR PAPERBACK Rudolf Hess, Hitler’s deputy and right hand man, flew to Scotland on a mysterious peace mission in 1941, which has never been convincingly explained, to meet unidentified politicians who wanted to end the war. The truth has been covered up for generations because to reveal it would somehow undermine the honour […]
America has become disorientated by the victory of a presidential candidate whose fundamental support comes from the notion of disrupting the status quo in almost every direction. So the handover, so carefully choreographed in normal times to represent almost a royal rather than democratic transfer, is blown apart by reports of Russian hackers (the inflammatory […]
Malcolm Blair-Robinson is a writer and blogger who has been a keen political observer for more than sixty years. Born a Tory, he became a founder member of the SDP, before gradually migrating left. In 2014 he published his idea of Dynamic Quantitative Easing which aroused interest in high places and this forms a core […]
Labour has been working hard to regain the initiative as the political opposition following its bloodletting on who should be its leader. Having resolved that self indulgent question with the ever popular Corbyn returning with an increased mandate, it finds a country drifting rudderless in a Brexit fog and awaiting with anxiety the onset of […]
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 […]
The answer is the latter in the case of the UK in 2017. There was a time perhaps in 2010/11 when austerity was good, but without making it part of a plan to re-boot the economy and maintaining it year after year, through one parliament into the next, is mathematically pointless, hugely damaging to the […]
Few decent people would find fault with a good deal of May’s speech about her new buzz trend, the Sharing Society. But what happened to Cameron’s Big Society, based presumably on Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society of the post Kennedy era? The common thing about all these societies is that they never happen. Because people are bigger […]
For years I have been saying and writing that with the collapse of communism and the Soviet Union, Russia should be accepted by the West and is no longer, and should not be seen as, an enemy. America has consistently refused to accept that notion and has during Obama’s second term done much to build Russia up […]
It is put about by Downing Street spinners that May will be making a Big Speech soon (soon =after the Supreme Court has given its ruling, also soon, but that soon = when they are ready). She will lay out her government’s negotiating ‘stance’ and at last we will know where we are headed. But […]