Just short of fifty Labour MPs voted against the welfare cuts while the rest, some apparently with heavy hearts etc, abstained as directed by the pro-tem leadership. Labour is in a bit of a crisis, but it is quite different to the crisis which commentators think they see. Labour’s problem is that most of its leadership […]
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 […]
We now know why Harriet Harman did not put herself forward as a leadership contender. She lacks the punch a leader must have. All this business about not being an opposition which opposes everything is rubbish.There are some issues like national security which require a cross party consensus but on matters of general legislation and especially […]
The language used by Cameron in his TV interview in the US was no doubt designed for the local audience but it makes little sense. It is not possible to destroy IS any more than it is possible to destroy Christianity. What can be done is to contain it so that gradually it withers into […]
There are signs emerging that the new Liberal leader, Tim Farron, is something of a religious fundamentalist. Some of his evasive answers have failed to dispel this impression. You can be a fundamentalist and still be a conservative or you can still be a socialist, but you cannot be a liberal. That is just not possible. […]
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 Kindle or Paperback UK […]
Since virtually everybody is agreed that the current bailout plan cannot work for Greece, let us review the practical options in a realistic way. 1 Staying in the euro This will require a 75% write down of all Greek debt (for creditors a grade one haircut) and printing enough Euros to re-boot the Greek economy, about […]
This Blog has been outspoken in its criticism of Germany and with good cause. Now it is time to be blunt with the Greeks. You are demanding of your government both an end to austerity, while at the same time you insist on staying in the Euro. You can have one or the other but […]
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 Kindle or Paperback UK […]
The election of Tim Farron as leader of the Lib Dems barely made the news and is hardly a headline, given the massacre of the party at the general election. Yet perversely it has added thousands of new members since then and found itself a very different kind of leader. A barnstorming Lancashire christian leaning […]