Month: February 2015

Malcolm Blair Robinson

NHS Worries

February 8, 2015 By Malcolm Blair-Robinson

The news that hundreds of avoidable deaths have been saved by putting eleven hospital trusts into special measures is mixed news. It is very good that death rates have fallen; it shows that very large numbers of avoidable deaths occur in the NHS and that is very bad. This underscores the reality of the NHS. […]

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Ukraine Weapons: Merkel Is Right

February 7, 2015 By Malcolm Blair-Robinson

The German Chancellor openly disagrees with the chatter coming out of Washington and NATO that somehow supplying beefed up weapons to the Kiev government, in which this blog has scant confidence, would help to bring peace. It would stoke war and give Russia a pretext to fight it in the open with its own forces to […]

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Moscow: Peace Hopes

February 6, 2015 By Malcolm Blair-Robinson

Europe faces two threats at the moment. Knee jerkers would say from Greece and Russia. It fact both come from within itself. The Greek problem, which has been discussed elsewhere, is entirely of Europe’s making, although it blames Greece for all of it. Likewise Ukraine, but according to Europe it is all Russia’s fault. Well, […]

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Pushing Greece To The Brink

February 5, 2015 By Malcolm Blair-Robinson

This blog is not confident that the policy being followed by the ECB of refusing to accept Greek bonds or the German intransigence at more haircuts, is going to work. People who lend too much money to a customer beyond any fool’s notion of what is wise or likely to be repayable, must take some […]