Blog 2023 Malcolm Blair-Robinson

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. The novel catches the mood of those times with a host of fictional characters who engage in political intrigue, sex, money laundering and murder, pursued by an Irish investigative journalist and his girlfriend, the daughter of a cabinet minister found dead in a hotel room after bondage sex.

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This blog is utterly dismayed by the demand side auction now engaging the main political parties to try and buy votes. All these rights, benefits and support for buying, without any coherent plan for a massive programme of affordable house building to rent, can only increase the shortage, inflate prices and increase the demand for taxation funded housing benefit to keep families from living on the streets.

No government of whatever party, grouping on combination, should get mixed up in the private property market. It should concentrate, as a matter of national emergency, on getting two million new houses built asap.by local authorites and housing associations to ensure a plentiful supply in all aprts of the country of decent affordable housing. This will settle the market and reduce housing costs to a proper affordable level and rebalance the economy away from borrowing and into saving.

It is quite impossible for politicians, and the Tories who think they are clever on the economy should know this, to talk of economic competence when they are feeding the very process which led to the financial crash in the first place.

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The Star Wars nickname given by locals to the vast new health complex in their midst, now about to open, gives emphasis to the remarkable achievement of the South Glasgow University Hospital. This  £1 billion project, funded by the Scottish Government, is one of the largest and certainly most up to date critical healthcare complexes in Europe. It  puts to shame anything similar south of the border. Entirely for NHS patients, apparently every one of the 1000 of them has their own room with en suite. If the Scottish National party want a symbol of what they can deliver and what their values are, surely this is it.

An idea to stimulate economic growth without further government borrowing. Written in plain English and very easy to follow, this is the only really fresh approach out there to the intractable problems of the UK economy, and it is just beginning to be noticed in important places. Buy! Download only .99p Paperback £2.99

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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 image of the U.S. It does not play well for the people involved either. For these protests are not about harassment by rednecks, which is bad enough, but about police brutality giving rise to loss of life. Loss of the lives of black Americans. It could not be worse.

Every so often America has to confront its racial divisions and prejudices and make amends. It then moves forward to better times, but very slowly slips back, making renewed action imperative. This time, and time for action is here again, there is something really fundamental about a civilized state being called into question: the integrity of its police forces. Americans must again join hands and move forward to a more open and enlightened interpretation of their relationships with each other. As they so often say ‘we are all Americans’. But a puzzled world is asking ‘are all Americans equal under the law?’ That is the question to which there does not seem to be a satisfactory answer. Yet.