These can be summed up under four headings; Greece, migrants, the UK and a sluggish economy with high unemployment. It all looks manageable but at the moment none of it is being managed. It is being kicked about and argued over but little actual progress is being made. Why? Largely because the peculiar multi-headed governance system […]
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 […]
The news that the Royal set up is to be given a 6.7% pay increase for the coming year, based on some formula connected to the crown estates, is both preposterous and insulting and should not under any circumstances proceed. Shortly George Osborne is to get to his feet in the Commons and announce how […]
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It is good news that the governor of South Carolina has indicated that the Confederate Flag should not fly outside the State Capitol. The Confederate States of America is a country defeated in war which no longer exists. It is right that its symbolic battle flag should not be flown from official buildings, other than museums […]
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This attack is ongoing as I write this. It is dreadful that after all the lives lost in years of intervention, so fragile is the security situation that the Taliban can directly attack the seat of government in Kabul. It shows that the future of Afghanistan is uncertain without some kind of accommodation with the Taliban, […]
The reported finding by a judge that an electronic tag must be removed from a terrorist suspect on the grounds that his human rights are being breached because he suffers from delusions that the tag is a bomb is as perverse as finding against the tax authorities because the person they accuse of tax evasion suffers delusions that George […]
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 […]
The news of the church massacre has stunned America and shocked the world. The fact that it has happened at all flies in the face of everything America stands for and believes itself to be. An exasperated and deflated President seemed powerless to do any more than ring his hands. And no wonder. This is apparently […]