Author: Malcolm Blair-Robinson

Royal Bank Of Scotland: What Value?

June 11, 2015 By Malcolm Blair-Robinson

The Chancellor’s announcement that he would start selling RBS shares at a loss caused the biggest stir in a fairly meaty speech yesterday at the Mansion House. His convoluted arithmetic that overall the taxpayer had made a profit out of the bank rescue programme was a pointless argument; not least because had the banks not […]

Osborne’s Laws

June 10, 2015 By Malcolm Blair-Robinson

First we have a law to say that the government will not increase income tax or VAT. Now we are to have a law that says governments must run a budget surplus in ‘normal times’. There are two thing s say. These laws are meaningless in that any government can repeal them at anytime. They […]

Tory Government In Disarray

June 9, 2015 By Malcolm Blair-Robinson

Well, even this blog did not expect quite this amount of confusion so early on in the first Tory government for eighteen years. It perhaps explains why there was such a long gap. We had forgotten just how split the Tory party is and how undisciplined it becomes as soon as it takes power. At a […]

Europe: Tory Divisions Crack Open

June 8, 2015 By Malcolm Blair-Robinson

Here we go again. Back to the Major years, with the Tories governing from a party split on the critical strategic issue of the day. We now have fifty backbench Tories parading their self righteous drivel about parliamentary sovereignty set to cause just the same mayhem as the gang of nonentities who all but brought Major […]

Gothic Crime From 0.99p

June 6, 2015 By Malcolm Blair-Robinson

 Click Image for Paperback £4.99 or Download .99p   Click here for US   St.John Whilloe is the black sheep member of a wealthy legal family,  whose firm of solicitors looks after the affairs of many of the top  families in the country. He is consulted by a young woman who claims  to be frightened by her […]

Corruption In High Places

June 6, 2015 By Malcolm Blair-Robinson

It is reported that Cameron is to engage in a degree of finger wagging about the trillion dollar corruption industry woven into public life around the world, as part of his contribution to the G7 summit. It kind of looks good on the home media but will have little practical effect, even though all the […]