Blog 2023 Malcolm Blair-Robinson

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.

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From today the BoE is going to publish its monthly interest rate decision at the same time as the minutes of the meeting at which the decision is taken. Once a quarter when it publishes its Inflation Report, it will do so on the same day as the other two. Many have welcomed this. Some have said this approach amounts to information overload. That is absurd. All three are connected and a part of the same core issues. It is not possible to comment coherently about one, without knowing about the others. No wonder some economists talk in riddles.