Maybe it is an inevitable outcome of racial tension, which is as old as America itself with its origins in slavery and the aftermath of the slow progress of equal rights, that in towns like Ferguson Missouri from time to time things will flare up. But race riots in Baltimore? This does not play well for the international […]
Set in the mid nineteen nineties, this fast moving thriller lifts the curtain on sex, sleaze and corruption in high places as the long reign of the government totters to an end, following the ousting of the iconic Margaret Thatcher. Downfall catches the mood of those times with a host of fictional characters who engage […]
In this never ending election campaign one can only say for sure that in two weeks time it will all be over. However we may be none the wiser about who is going to govern us. At present, although very close, it begins to look as if the Tories have a slight advantage. This will […]
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The arguments between the parties about the economy , as the IFS pointed out yesterday, deal only in marginal handouts to entice voters and broad generalisations to hoodwink them. In the view of this blog here are ten questions which remain unanswered with clarity. 1 What are you going to cut and what effect will that have, not […]
Although the atrocities of Islamic State are never far from the news, the general level of media noise from both the Middle East and Ukraine is a good deal less than in the recent past. This is curious at one level because the situation in Eastern Ukraine remains dangerous and the Middle East has rarely […]
Set in the mid nineteen nineties, this fast moving thriller lifts the curtain on sex, sleaze and corruption in high places as the long reign of the government totters to an end, following the ousting of the iconic Margaret Thatcher. Downfall catches the mood of those times with a host of fictional characters who engage […]
That really was an awful speech. Scotland is a separate country with a separate heritage and social values, which are more inclusive and left wing than further south. Scotland is the home of the original Labour party, whose first MP was Scottish. In the last hundred years five prime ministers have been of Scottish origin. Six […]
BROWSE MY BOOKS WITH THESE LINKS Malcolm Blair-Robinson U.S Malcolm Blair-Robinson U.K.
This blog has a lot of respect for John Major. Described by Denis Thatcher as a ‘ghastly’ Prime Minister, his wife’s choice as her successor undoubtedly disappointed her. But he had a very difficult hand to play which included Black Wednesday, loads of negative equity and a Tory party split so badly down the EU […]