Author: Malcolm Blair-Robinson

Educational Tolerance

February 2, 2018 By Malcolm Blair-Robinson

The Chief Inspector of Schools has rightly pointed up the fact that in our drive to show tolerance to all forms of religion we have allowed the setting up of educational programmes which teach extreme intolerance of many aspects of our culture and way of life. This Blog has from the very beginning been opposed […]

Is Trump Now Secure?

February 1, 2018 By Malcolm Blair-Robinson

The answer is Yes, with a proviso at the end of this post. Oddly Fire and Fury has helped Trump as much as it has enriched its author. Without getting into the argument of how much of the book is true and what is invention or misinformation, the disclosures about the shock in  Trump Tower […]

May Does Not Do Quitting

January 31, 2018 By Malcolm Blair-Robinson

May is right to say she is not a quitter. She is nothing if not stubborn. But she lacks imagination, she finds intuitive decision making impossible and relies on an almost never ending process of review and research as the best way forward. The result is lofty speeches on intentions but total failure to deliver […]

Trump And The Markets

January 23, 2018 By Malcolm Blair-Robinson

Wall Street is booming, for which a gleeful Trump takes the credit. If the economy continues to boom Trump stands every chance of winning mid-term and again in 2020. I watch Rasmussen  and he remains steady, fluctuating between 40 and 46. If there is a third party candidate at any election Trump will break through, […]

Economic Growth

January 22, 2018 By Malcolm Blair-Robinson

Lord O’Neil, one of the economists whom this Blog admires, predicts that the surge in world trade could help GB entirely offset the effects of Brexit. He stresses, as a Remainer, we would be doing much better still if we were not trying to leave the EU. This is encouraging news for sure, although there […]

Nigel Farage: A New Party?

January 21, 2018 By Malcolm Blair-Robinson

Nigel Farage is reported to be considering the formation of a new Brexit party, because his first one, UKIP, is disintegrating. Farage worries that the case for Brexit is being lost. He is dead right. Not because of UKIP, but because there is no case for Brexit. It was a con from the start. Brits […]

EU: New French Dynamic

January 21, 2018 By Malcolm Blair-Robinson

A new European leader has arrived on the world stage. At first people were not sure, but now it is clear that President Macron is a strong reformist leader who is not only changing France, with remarkably little domestic resistance from a country averse to change, but also impacting Europe and Brexit. Merkel, the EU […]

U.S. Federal Shut Down

January 20, 2018 By Malcolm Blair-Robinson

Once again the Federal Government shuts down because Congress cannot agree a budget. Key departments continue, but non-essentials are stopped. The rest of the world is somewhat bemused by this, at least to the extent that it is even mildly interested. But it has happened before. And the U.S. is still there. Sooner or later […]