Blog 2023 Malcolm Blair-Robinson

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.  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, this tense thriller will draw you into a compelling read.

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I did not use the UK in the headline, because the problems facing Great Britain at the moment are England driven. The report is quite the reverse of the Cameron / Osborne spin. The economy has made a housing boom led, financial sector driven, import fed recovery. The exceptional rise in asset values driven by Quantitative Easing has made the rich richer and the poor poorer. Debt remains at record levels everywhere. Energy and utility prices are too high. No headway has been made to resolve the acute shortages of affordable housing. Exports are not growing as expected but imports are. There has been no rebalancing of the economy which has been rebuilt on the old failed model of borrow and consume rather than invest and make. Crisis is in the wind in parts of the NHS, care in the community and childcare. Cuts have been considerable, but so has the fall off in tax revenue, so the one has cancelled out the other and the deficit remains just shy of a hundred billion per year.

If that were not enough, there is now a quarrel brewing with the EU which may lead to Britain walking out, with unpredictable consequences, and no game plan for the future.  Nobody, repeat nobody, knows how the country is going to be governed, let alone by whom, with half baked proposals for constitutional reform ensuring only unfathomable confusion after May 2015, with a House of Commons full of MPs who have in many cases have been elected on less than 30% of the votes cast, who will be allowed to vote in the House for only this and not for that, whilst some can on that day vote for the other, but only if it is here and not there.

So that all adds up to the big success story that Cameron wants you to vote for. And what is Labour’s answer to this golden political opportunity? You may well ask! And who is going to step forward to fill the vacuum caused by the complete failure of a political class built entirely on spin doctors and special advisers?

You are right.  Alex Salmond and Nigel Farage, the political weather makers.

And who is that lurking in the shadows? Ah yes. Boris.

So voters could end up with a beguiling choice between proven fools, clever opportunists and a rather endearing clown. My money is on the clown to come through in the end. But a lot will happen first.

Happy Christmas!

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From MALCOLM  BLAIR-ROBINSON

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

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The President was rather blowing the trumpet at his recent press conference and rightly so. The twin deficits, so long a major issue since the dawn of the Bush era are now falling, the country has once again become the worlds biggest energy producer and this has reduced energy costs and boosted the economy which is growing strongly. America has put on more new jobs than the whole of Europe put together. There is a lot more to do, especially in the area of rising inequality between rich and poor. But it is a developing story of confronting crisis, knuckling down and can do.

The divided politics of the current government set up will inhibit major new federal driven programmes for infrastructure renewal and social relief, but the Republicans have to be careful not to be seen as blockers and spoilers because if they do their twin majorities on Capitol Hill will be the engine of defeat in 2016, not the springboard to victory. The announcement the that the youngest Bush is thinking about running is interesting. Emotionally this blog is strong on States’ Rights and small federal government. But it is economically savvy and it knows that economics is the ultra weak link in the Bush political dynasty. And in today’s world economics is everything.