Each of these books is different and not part of a sequence, but all of them have the common ability to draw you into the story and keep you turning the pages from start to finish. Click on any of the images for my page on Amazon UK and here for Amazon.com
To describe the cascade of misfortune engulfing the Tory conference as unfortunate is to somewhat understate the case. Nevertheless all is not lost. Yet. First of all defections alone will not sink a party unless they begin to turn from a trickle to a flood. So far there have only been two to UKIP. The […]
As Parliament debates this latest resort to the favoured tactic of air power intervening in yet another Middle East conflict, this Blog can do little more than exhort readers to go back over previous posts because most of what can be said has already been set down. The key points are these. It is not […]
Yesterday we had the Leader of the Opposition admitting he forgot the deficit and immigration, the two biggest political hot potatoes, in his speech. Today we have the Prime Minister apologising to the Queen for making small talk of her private phone conversation with him, while in range of a sound system. This conveys a […]
Each of these books is different and not part of a sequence, but all of them have the common ability to draw you into the story and keep you turning the pages from start to finish. Click on any of the images for my page on Amazon UK and here for Amazon.com
Whatever it is when a party leader forgets to mention the deficit in a keynote speech, it is not the stuff of a Prime Minister in Waiting. But before getting het up about it, this is not how politics works now. Party conferences fire up the faithful but they no longer have any impact on election […]
This development was not unexpected but it is significant on three levels. The first is that it is not just the US alone, but includes participation in one form or another from Sunni Arab states who represent the moderate interpretation of Islam supported by the vast majority of their faith. That is the overt coalition. […]
In a recent interview for the BBC Tony Blair had a much more measured contribution, while observing that at some point somebody’s boots may be needed on the ground to defeat IS. He made the point that it would be much better if it were not Western boots but he thought nothing should be ruled […]
Each of these books is different and not part of a sequence, but all of them have the common ability to draw you into the story and keep you turning the pages from start to finish. Click on any of the images for my page on Amazon UK and here for Amazon.com
Whereas a year ago an average of opinion polls gave Labour a projected majority in 2015 of about eighty, its lead has now dropped to a tiny projected sixteen. This is the wrong direction of travel for Milliband and Balls. Moreover English voters are determined that the fifty nine MPs in the Commons elected from Scottish […]