Author: Malcolm Blair-Robinson

Labour Leadership: Move Left To Win

June 16, 2015 By Malcolm Blair-Robinson

This blog is among those who feel that Ed Milliband should have remained leader during the navel gazing period of introspection which follows political defeats. Once the analysis was complete and the party had an idea where it is headed, it is easier to find the right leader. As it is the line up of candidates, with […]

Greece: Is The End Near?

June 15, 2015 By Malcolm Blair-Robinson

The latest meeting to resolve the Greek crisis has ended without agreement. The rhetoric is now building to prepare the world for a Greek default. Talk of a state of ‘Emergency’ by the ECB should Greece pull the plug reveals that at last the better part of a continent in denial has woken up to where […]

Greece: How Much Longer?

June 13, 2015 By Malcolm Blair-Robinson

It is difficult to find a rational explanation about the never ending saga of Greece hovering on the threshold of Euro membership. Certainly it is guilty of a reckless period of spendthrift abandon. But that is in the past. When dealing with a whole nation of people you cannot proceed as if with one errant […]

The Battle of Orgreave

June 12, 2015 By Malcolm Blair-Robinson

I never voted for Thatcher but I did support her reform of trade union practices which had got out of control in the 1970s and were crippling the country to the detriment of everybody, including trade unionists. Arthur Scargill was a hero to some but to the majority he was an inflammatory hate figure. So […]

City Ethics: The Governor Speaks Out.

June 11, 2015 By Malcolm Blair-Robinson

Mark Carney is normally measured and careful in his pronouncements; a caution here, a warning there, encouragement too. This made his outspoken attack on the low life ethics in parts of the City, the flaws in markets driven by excess, the controls and penalties which would in future be enforced and above all the demands […]