Author: Malcolm Blair-Robinson

BROWSE MY BOOKS WITH THESE LINKS Malcolm Blair-Robinson U.S         Malcolm Blair-Robinson UK

So it would appear. Cameron promised his party and his electors there would be no third runway at Heathrow. He then set up a commission which recommended that there should be. Now he has funked rejecting their conclusion, or accepting it. Instead we have more time to consider the options. Until after the election for a […]

Theatre goers are familiar with the disappointment on learning that the star will not appear and instead they will see the understudy. Yet sometimes the performance is more enjoyable. Such was the experience of MPs yesterday. Convention requires the Opposition Leader to absent himself from the House for PMQs when the Prime Minister is away (being given […]

DOWNLOAD OR PAPERBACK FROM .99P    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 […]

BROWSE MY BOOKS WITH THESE LINKS Malcolm Blair-Robinson U.S         Malcolm Blair-Robinson UK

The present defence and political posture of the West over IS is deeply flawed and going nowhere. The following, or something like it, offers a way forward. It stands most of what is happening  on its head. It will take real political courage to put it into effect, not the faux stuff we see flying […]

The Oldham by-election was a good deal better for Labour than most commentators thought it would be. 60% of the vote on a low turnout after the death of a much liked local MP with a big personal following is unusual. It reinforces everything this blog has said about the mismatch between Westminster Labour and […]

We may well ask. Many think it is a near laughing stock. Yet in politics there are more people laughing on the other side of their face than anywhere else. In fact Labour’s plight is very interesting. It is certainly in a place no political party has been before. It has a leader for whom fewer than […]

There is no doubt that the highlight of yesterday’s long debate in the Commons was Hilary Benn’s speech. As perorations go it was perhaps the most remarkable for a generation for two reasons. First because it was a great script delivered with power fluency and emotion and second because it was against the views of the […]

No. The reason they have come to the wrong decision is that they are on the wrong road already and branching right or left makes little practical difference. It is not a matter which can be settled by phantom armies of moderate fighters, or a few more bombs, or even troops on the ground. Because […]