Author: Malcolm Blair-Robinson

The Economy: Critical Points

May 25, 2016 By Malcolm Blair-Robinson

What is so deplorable about the endless economic sniping between Remain and Leave, is that each is using various figures and statistics to mean the opposite of what is actually the fact. So this post will set out some key economic pointers and leave you to decide which campaign would be most likely to deliver on […]

Is Parliament Sovereign? No. The People Are.

May 23, 2016 By Malcolm Blair-Robinson

This is the problem with the Brexit argument. The political class in England (not in Scotland)  consider parliament sovereign. It is not. In a democracy the people are sovereign and they exercise their sovereignty through democratic institutions of which parliament in the UK is the senior. But the people also exercise their sovereignty in the […]

NHS Overspend

May 20, 2016 By Malcolm Blair-Robinson

There is no wonder that the NHS has overspent because the funding model is mathematically dysfunctional. The problem is obvious. You cannot provide an infinite service with a finite budget. In other words the more patients it helps and who come through its doors, the less it has to spend on each of them. Imagine […]

The Queen’s Speech.

May 18, 2016 By Malcolm Blair-Robinson

The most remarkable thing about the Queen’s Speech is that at the age of ninety, be-robed and with a heavy crown upon her head she can still make it with a firm voice and faultless delivery. There is no doubt that the Monarch herself is a good deal more remarkable than the stuff she had […]

Downfall In Downing Street

May 17, 2016 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 […]

The Anti-Establishment Vote?

May 17, 2016 By Malcolm Blair-Robinson

This phenomenon, which started in Greece, is rampaging across the United States propelling Trump onwards and upwards and keeping Sanders in the race although he has lost the nomination but might win the presidency with more certainty than Clinton. It may be the contagion is settling here in the UK as well. This movement does not recognise […]

Vintage Thriller: Paperback or Download

May 16, 2016 By Malcolm Blair-Robinson

 The latest edition of this ever popular psycho-thriller, now in its twentieth year, has a dramatic new cover and is offered for a limited period at the special price of £5.99 paperback and .99p  Download. A haunting tale of passion and the paranormal, written in the style of its setting in the 1920s. A tiny English […]

Boris And Hitler

May 15, 2016 By Malcolm Blair-Robinson

Boris making out that the EU is comparable to Nazi Germany’s conquest of Europe is bordering on the imbecile. Which is odd because Boris is supposed to be a clever man. To try and make out that the democratic and voluntary union of independent nation states for the benefit of trade, peace and human advancement is […]