Politically it looks more at risk because of the majority in Scotland voting Remain. This has presented a strong platform for a strident Nicola Sturgeon to fight for Scotland’s interests and threaten another independence referendum if London does not listen. But whilst politics is the driver of the referendum itself, economics is the driver of […]
Dr. Rachael Benedict is an American historian and a best-selling author. Through the death of her estranged father she sets out to expose secrets from the Nazi era, which are so sensitive they have been subject to an extensive cover-up lasting seventy years. This provokes a killing spree as parts of the security services of both Britain and […]
There are always two Americas. At the worst they fought a civil war and at best they unite as one, to face a challenge together, as after 9/11. But it is not always the same two, although broadly it is, like every democracy, a conservative tendency versus a liberal enlightenment. What is going on now is […]
This Blog is beginning to detect a change of political mood about Brexit. There is no doubt that the prophesied disaster in the aftermath of Brexit vote not only did not happen, but was supplanted by a kind of euphoria that the Brits had stood up to be counted and were willing to have a go […]
Turn Left To Power is an explosive dissertation in book form offering a fundamental redirection for Labour’s return to power, with bold ideas for a new economic and social settlement, including economic and taxation reform, restoration of responsibility in government and a renewal of democracy. The ideas are relevant whether Brexit goes hard or soft. Frank and at a times brutal, […]
Once again the Labour party risks further erosion of support by discussing its leadership. So it is time to get real. Labour’s problems are not about Corbyn. It is almost certainly the case that under another leader they would have lost both Copeland and Stoke. Stoke held because Corbyn saw off UKIP’s Nuttall. But that […]
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 […]
The Conservative victory in Copeland is a great political achievement. It is a major boost for May, who perhaps lacked democratic endorsement, having been voted in by Tory MPs only (which this blog applauded and would make mandatory for parties in government) and having lost the ultra safe Richmond to an anti-Brexit Lib Dem in a […]
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 husband. Things are not as they seem and St.John finds himself drawn […]
Judged by previous presidencies, the Trump White House is chaotic. So the media daily tell us. But we may have been here before during the presidential campaign. Not a single media commentator predicted a Trump win at any stage. Always there were comparisons to show the next gate would close in his face because analysis […]