Day: 31 May 2015

Gothic Crime: Tor Raven Value

May 31, 2015 By Malcolm Blair-Robinson

 Click Image for Paperback £4.99 or Download .99p   Click here for US   St.John Whilloe is the black sheep member of a wealthy legal family,  whose firm of solicitors looks after the affairs of many of the top  families in the country. He is consulted by a young woman who claims  to be frightened by her […]

Greece: Getting Dangerous

May 31, 2015 By Malcolm Blair-Robinson

Cash is now flowing from Greek banks at accelerated volumes, reducing accumulated deposits to the lowest for ten years. The country is due to pay money to the IMF on June 5th. It is unclear that it has the liquidity to do so. Christine Lagarde, IMF chief, is now saying a Greek euro exit ‘is a […]

Russia’s Diplomacy Retaliates.

May 31, 2015 By Malcolm Blair-Robinson

Russia has remained pretty quiet about western sanctions and travel bans and has appeared to busy itself within the turmoil of Ukraine’s eastern provinces. Now this blog detects a more assertive approach emerging. This is not by chance; it follows careful building of a supporting constituency. Within the last several days we have seen popular […]

Purple Killing: International Thriller

May 31, 2015 By Malcolm Blair-Robinson

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 […]

FIFA: Prince William Speaks Out

May 31, 2015 By Malcolm Blair-Robinson

The intervention in the FIFA scandal by the Duke of Cambridge yesterday is more interesting for the fact that he spoke than it is about what he said. There is a needless convention in the UK that the monarch cannot have an opinion on current issues, which derives from traditional tensions between parliament and crown […]