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 […]
If Sepp Blatter is re-elected it will underscore the culture gap between Europe and the developing world. FIFA pours big money into developing countries to support football infrastructure which helps to develop backward economies and give their populations hope and motivation. If you are a delegate from parts of the world which are at a […]
Click here for US. Click Image for UK 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 […]
Paperback or Kindle UK US 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. The truth has been covered up for generations because to […]
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This is just a quick post as off out for the day, but the most significant thing about the Queen’s Speech may well be what is not in it. News that the proposal to scrap the Human Rights Act and replace with a British Bill of Rights, so much trumpeted in recent days, is ‘on […]
The new parliament will be interesting. We will know more after the Queen’s Speech tomorrow. Much of it has been trailed in advance, but there will be some surprises. What will be really interesting is the dynamics of the parliament itself. Because this is the first parliament in which the United Kingdom is truly aware that […]
It is difficult to have sympathy with Euroland’s bosses. Greece may be a basket case and have committed every financial sin in the book, but if the plan is to keep the country in the Euro, some kind of deal has to be cut to re-boot its financial system and at the same time recognise […]
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 […]