Archive for December, 2014

Books For Christmas

Wednesday, December 17th, 2014

There is nothing better for stocking fillers and e-gifts than good reads! Lyndon Books offer via Amazon big Christmas sale bargains. Paperbacks from £4.99 or currency equivalent and Kindle downloads less than a £ or $. 

 From  TOR  RAVEN

Download all four fast reading thrillers now! Or buy paperbacks. Orders over £10 postage free.

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Satan's Disciple: Gothic Crime SeriesPower Corruption and LiesThe Hastings OptionWhilloe's First Case

 

From MALCOLM  BLAIR-ROBINSON

These two mega thrillers are a must for those who love historical drama and political intrigue.

Hitler's First Lady: Compact EditionPurple Killing

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Russia Crisis: Not Good For EU.

Wednesday, December 17th, 2014

In international relations you have to be very careful what you wish for; something which modern politicians find difficult. Let nobody suppose that a Russian financial crisis or instability among the Kremlin personalities would be good. It would be bad for Russia certainly, but bad for everybody also and especially bad for the EU. This blog has been consistently critical about sanctions and the West’s posture over Ukraine. Russia is now in trouble primarily because of the fall in all prices rather than sanctions, but sanctions reduce the room for Russia’s economic manoeuvre. Its economy is too oil dependent and opportunities in recent years to re-industrialise in depth have been allowed to slip by.

Russia’s predicament would in normal times have created great opportunities for EU firms to participate in putting Russia back on its economic and industrial feet, but sanctions prevent that. Indeed sanctions are the main reason why the EU is flatlining. The EU will not start to grow again until it reaches an accommodation with Putin and the nervousness now evidenced in the global markets will continue until it is clear that the prospects for Moscow look better.

This requires each side to see the red line of the other. The West sees the Ukraine crisis as evidence that Putin is trying to re-establish the old Soviet sphere of influence in Europe’s east. What the West cannot see is how it looks from the Kremlin. There they see NATO and the EU moving ever east. NATO they are relaxed about because if it became necessary Russia could contain it. But the EU is different. It is different because it is now dominated and driven by its richest and most populous country, Germany. Any expansion east of the EU means German leadership moves ever closer. That is the Russian red line. It is drawn with the blood of tens of millions of Russian dead in two world wars. Wars about containing German ambition. Merkel needs to think about that. That is why ethnic Russians in Eastern Ukraine have taken up arms.

Hess Enigma: Now Live

Tuesday, December 16th, 2014

The new Tor Raven novel HESS ENIGMA is now available worldwide in paperback and on Kindle.

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. The truth has been covered up for generations because to reveal it would somehow undermine the honour and constitutional fabric of the United Kingdom. Who was plotting against Churchill? What were the peace terms on offer? What happened to Hess? Was he killed in the War? Was the prisoner in Spandau a double?

Taking place in the modern day but with flashback chapters which gradually unfold the hidden secrets, the novel is a fast moving and compelling read.

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English Votes For English Laws.

Tuesday, December 16th, 2014

Once again we are floundering about because Cameron shot his mouth off and promised something he cannot deliver. William Hague’s statement of options to the House of Commons today amounted to a muddling fudge which few would find made any sense and which would further turn people off politics.

The only way to have English laws exclusively made by English MP’s is to have an English Parliament. Anything else will lead to all kinds of conflicts, muddles and confusions. And the simplest way to achieve that is to abolish the House of Lords and put in its place a United Kingdom Parliament, elected by proportional representation from all across the Kingdom, responsible for the currency, foreign policy, defence and and issues involving all four countries together which are not devolved. It would also act as the revising chamber for all the national parliaments. The Prime Minister of the UK would not be the same as the First Minister of England. The English Parliament could then devolve power to its Cities and Regions. It would bring the government back to the people, who might then start to take an interest in it, just as they have in Scotland.

Christmas Book Bargains

Tuesday, December 16th, 2014

There is nothing better for stocking fillers and e-gifts than good reads! Lyndon Books offer via Amazon big Christmas sale bargains. Paperbacks from £4.99 or currency equivalent and Kindle downloads less than a £ or $. Just 77p 0r 99c!

 From  TOR  RAVEN

Download all four fast reading thrillers now! Or buy paperbacks. Orders over £10 postage free.

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Satan's Disciple: Gothic Crime SeriesPower Corruption and LiesThe Hastings OptionWhilloe's First Case

 

From MALCOLM  BLAIR-ROBINSON

These two mega thrillers are a must for those who love historical drama and political intrigue.

Hitler's First Lady: Compact EditionPurple Killing

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Hess Book: Buy Now!

Tuesday, December 16th, 2014

The new Tor Raven novel HESS ENIGMA is now available worldwide in paperback and on Kindle.

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. The truth has been covered up for generations because to reveal it would somehow undermine the honour and constitutional fabric of the United Kingdom. Who was plotting against Churchill? What were the peace terms on offer? What happened to Hess? Was he killed in the War? Was the prisoner in Spandau a double?

Taking place in the modern day but with flashback chapters which gradually unfold the hidden secrets, the novel is a fast moving and compelling read based on the family knowledge of the author whose parents had connections to both Hess and Hitler and to British Intelligence.

BUY NOW!

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New Hess Book Soon

Monday, December 15th, 2014

COMING  SOON!

Books: Christmas Sale

Monday, December 15th, 2014

There is nothing better for stocking fillers and e-gifts than good reads! Lyndon Books offer via Amazon big Christmas sale bargains. Paperbacks from £4.99 or currency equivalent and Kindle downloads less than a £ or $. Just 77p 0r 99c!

 From  TOR  RAVEN

Download all four fast reading thrillers now! Or buy paperbacks. Orders over £10 postage free.

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Satan's Disciple: Gothic Crime SeriesPower Corruption and LiesThe Hastings OptionWhilloe's First Case

 

From MALCOLM  BLAIR-ROBINSON

These two mega thrillers are a must for those who love historical drama and political intrigue.

Hitler's First Lady: Compact EditionPurple Killing

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Tor Raven: New Hess Book

Sunday, December 14th, 2014

COMING  SOON!

Book Bargains

Sunday, December 14th, 2014

There is nothing better for stocking fillers and e-gifts than good reads! Lyndon Books offer via Amazon big Christmas sale bargains. Paperbacks from £4.99 or currency equivalent and Kindle downloads £0.77p incl VAT.

 From  TOR  RAVEN

Download all four fast reading thrillers now! Or buy paperbacks. Orders over £10 postage free.

AMAZON.COM                        AMAZON.UK

 

Satan's Disciple: Gothic Crime SeriesPower Corruption and LiesThe Hastings OptionWhilloe's First Case

 

From MALCOLM  BLAIR-ROBINSON

These two mega thrillers are a must for those who love historical drama and political intrigue.

Hitler's First Lady: Compact EditionPurple Killing

AMAZON.COM                     AMAZON.UK