Blog 2023 Malcolm Blair-Robinson

There is a lot of excitement in the educational world today because the new league tables published are not following the previous format and are judging outcomes in a revised methodology and to new standards. The change is designed to demonstrate more reliably how well a school is providing its students with the kind of education which should be valuable in developing their lives and careers. It is no use sending our young people into a workplace which gives their jobs to better educated Poles.

Nevertheless when change like this occurs, the moment of change is uncomfortable because people tend to compare the new table with the old, when such a comparison will not work. Some schools seem to have prepared better than others and maintained a competitive standard. Others, formerly top performers like my local Academy, appear to have fallen off a cliff. Those which have done so will no doubt show up better next year. If they don’t we shall know that not all was as we were earlier led to believe. Parents will vote with their feet. That apparently is the whole idea.

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Purple Killing

Dr. Rachael Benedict is an American historian and a best-selling author. She has a British connection through her estranged father Saul, an English thriller writer. Saul, whose parents were of Anglo-German origin, has spent much of his life plotting to expose secrets from World War Two, which are so sensitive they have been subject to an extensive cover-up lasting seventy years. As the time approaches for him to make his move to expose duplicity, murder and lies at the heart of the British State, he seeks Rachael’s help. This provokes a killing spree as parts of the security services of both Britain and the United States become engaged in the drama, with one side determined to get the secrets out and the other determined to keep them hidden.

Set equally in the United States and Britain, the narrative grips from the first page, transporting the reader to the heart of government both in Washington and London and on into the darkest corners of the secret states on each side of the Atlantic. Rachael battles forward to unearth the truth both from intrigues of the Nazi era, but also within her own family, surviving three attempts on her life, before finally achieving her goal. Not only does she expose the truth from history and from her own roots, she has to delve deep into her own emotions to find the truth about herself.

Hitler’s First lady

Lise Bauer is born in Africa in 1906, brought to England by her parents from where she is expelled with them in 1914, because her father is an East Prussian. They settle in America and become Americans, but return to Europe in the 1920’s. Here Lise is involved in the rise of the Nazi party, marries one of Hitler’s closest associates and later has a relationship with Hitler himself, before divorcing her husband and marrying an English friend of Hitler’s deputy, Rudolf Hess. The novel offers a new view of Hitler’s sexual relationships, a plot to overthrow Churchill and the flight to Scotland by Rudolf Hess. Using historical characters often portrayed in a new light, this fictional account challenges the accepted view of recorded history.