An English village slumbers on the Surrey/Sussex borders, but the pastoral exterior hides a number of nightmare secrets. The return of a young man, Philip, after a long absence stirs memories of the horrific murder of his mother and uncle years earlier and of an ancient curse delivered upon the family in Napoleonic times. The […]
The increases in pay for prison officers will be widely welcomed by a critical public service, put under siege by crass decisions taken by government, which undermined the operating capability of almost all prisons and brought a number into dysfunction and crisis. But there is still a long way to go before our prisons deliver […]
Malcolm Blair-Robinson is a writer and blogger who has been a keen political observer for more than sixty years. Born a Tory, he became a founder member of the SDP, before gradually migrating left. In 2014 he published his idea of Dynamic Quantitative Easing which aroused interest in high places and this forms a core […]
On the face of it there is no earthly reason why those who want to remain in the EU should not be politically mobilized. It is not undemocratic because we are a parliamentary democracy with a formally constituted opposition. After an election the losing side becomes the Opposition and continues to make its case. So Blair […]
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 […]
It is clear that a kind of war has broken out between President Trump and the various US intelligence agencies, of which there are quite a few. He rails into them on twitter and they, according to reports, withhold information from him. This is leading to an aura of turmoil surrounding the White House which […]
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. Who was plotting against Churchill? What were the peace terms on offer? What happened to Hess? Was he killed in the […]
Nobody around the world at large has ever heard of General Flynn. Nor do they really understand what the National Security Adviser is. So the fact that this man has resigned from that post will not shake the planet. Obviously it has shaken the White House. The issue is, does the White House go on shaking? First […]
Liz Truss, the Justice Secretary, has not addressed the problem of overcrowded prisons. She has addressed the theory of overcrowded prisons with a wordy speech, typical of the modern political class of careerist climbers. There is no quick fix she says. Well there has to be because the prisons are in crisis and action is […]
There are signs that wiser counsels are prevailing in the Trump White House, leading to musings on Air force One that a new initiative is to be launched next week to restore credibility to the President’s immigration policy. Nothing the United States has done in the last half century has attracted so much opposition and […]