This morning this Blog said Fiona Woolf would not survive the weekend as chairman of the child abuse Inquiry. In fact she did not survive the day. So we were right in principle but wrong on detail. But who cares. We are just a blog. But Ten Downing Street is not just a blog. It […]
My latest thriller, Purple Killing, is coming very soon. It is written in a modern style in a scene by scene format, with punctuation which follows reading flow rather than traditional rules. This creates a compelling narrative, easy to read and hard to put down. This book is a work of fiction, but at its heart there […]
Theresa May’s star shone bright at the Tory Conference and any leadership ambitions she may have harboured were burnished even brighter by her performance there. Moreover she had been able to brush off the unfortunate affair of the fumbled Butler Sloss appointment. The star of Fiona Woolf was in the ascendant too; a highly respected City […]
My latest thriller, Purple Killing, is coming very soon. It is written in a modern style in a scene by scene format, with punctuation which follows reading flow rather than traditional rules. This creates a compelling narrative, easy to read and hard to put down. This book is a work of fiction, but at its heart there […]
Norman Baker, the Lib Dem home office minister, has rightly suggested that to dismiss out of hand a report which the government itself commissioned, which finds that making drug taking a crime does not reduce its use, is both short sighted and counter productive. Just as America discovered that banning alcohol was no way to combat […]
My latest thriller, Purple Killing, is coming very soon. It is written in a modern style in a scene by scene format, with punctuation which follows reading flow rather than traditional rules. This creates a compelling narrative, easy to read and hard to put down. This book is a work of fiction, but at its heart there […]
There is further anxiety today because reports indicate that the UK authorities have a huge backlog of unresolved immigration files, and worse have entirely lost track of tens of thousands of people refused entry but perhaps still here. The usual demands for this that and the other to be done are all over the media. […]
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
The debate about NHS funding has been going on since the day it was founded. The nature of the project is that such a debate is part of its culture. Unfortunately the measures introduced to find efficiency savings involve the creation of a huge bureaucracy, which uses up in its own costs the savings it manages to make. […]
It an atmosphere when anything that happens with Labour is all Milliband’s fault, it is no surprise that the failures of Scottish Labour to step up to the plate during the referendum campaign leading to panic across all parties at Westminster, is now blamed by the outgoing Lamont on Milliband. The fact is she was […]