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.
Archive for July 20th, 2015
Today’s Best Read: Downfall In Downing Street
Monday, July 20th, 2015Labour Muddle
Monday, July 20th, 2015We 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 on an issue as socially important as welfare cuts it is the duty of the Opposition to oppose and amend. That is why it is called Her Majesty’s Opposition and why the leader gets paid for the job.
So now there is a big row within Labour about her decision to abstain in the vote on the welfare cuts. Quite right too. There is a lot wrong with that Bill and it is Labour’s duty to point that out.