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 and constitutional fabric of […]
Jeremy Corbyn has raised the question of the Royal Prerogative. Few people understand what it is. Because we have no codified written constitution, the UK remains an absolute monarchy in which the monarch retains absolute power. This power is delegated by the sovereign to the prime minister, who is free to use it without parliamentary sanction. […]
Gordon Brown, who many credit for saving the Union, now warns that it is again in peril. He sights various details to do with tax powers and votes for English MPs on English issues. He may well be right to warn, but the risk is deeper than the detail. It is about a cultural and political gap […]
An idea to stimulate economic growth without further government borrowing. Written in plain English and very easy to follow, this is the only really fresh approach out there to the intractable problems of the UK economy, and it is just beginning to be noticed in important places. Buy! Download only .99p Paperback £2.99 Kindle or Paperback UK […]
Tony Blair has once again intervened to tell Labour voters not to vote for Corbyn. Many think that each Blair intervention is worth a few thousand more votes for Corbyn. We shall see. There are a few things that Tony does not understand. The first is that New Labour is a busted flush with a shattered reputation which […]
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 […]
This blog is shocked, as are many people, by the tawdry list of rejects, toadies and worse who have been elevated to the Upper House of Parliament, of a country which likes to think of itself as a democracy. At one time the only route in was through birth. That was hardly fair and certainly not democratic, but […]
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History will judge Ed Milliband less harshly than his contemporaries. He kept the party united while edging it away from the vague nostrums of New Labour, but a failure to articulate a coherent and radical economic policy was fatal, especially in Scotland. His loyalty to Ed Balls cost Labour the election and Balls his seat. […]
It is right that the authorities have grounded the Hawker Hunters of the type which crashed at Shoreham. It is also right that they have imposed strict limitations on high stress manoeuvres by old jets at air displays. Everyone loves to see vintage planes (and cars) but this should involve only minimal risk. Since the […]