Month: October 2015

BROWSE MY BOOKS WITH THESE LINKS Malcolm Blair-Robinson U.S         Malcolm Blair-Robinson UK

Clearly it makes sense for the NHS to work at weekends. In fact this blog has advocated a quite different system where hospitals run a three shift 24 hour pattern which never closes. There is no reason why routine operations and care cannot take place on a round the clock basis, eliminating waiting lists and delays, together […]

QE in various forms is now very much part of the economic conversation, especially in connection with a fresh approach to financial issues by the new leadership of the Labour party. Dynamic Quantitative Easing remains under government, not bank, control and targets specific investment projects without borrowing, interest or repayments. It can reboot the economy, boost manufacturing and exports […]

There is no way an industrial country can allow itself to go out of steel production. The fact that we are presently a debt driven economy obsessed with shopping and house ownership does not alter the fact that we cannot go on that way. We have to restore a very large part of our industrial […]

BROWSE MY BOOKS WITH THESE LINKS Malcolm Blair-Robinson U.S         Malcolm Blair-Robinson UK

The report that a member of the BBC’s Question Time audience was reduced to tears because of the effect of the cut in tax credits is distressing. It is also something of a political embarrassment. This blog has commented often about the ridiculous situation where low wages and excessive rents are subsidised by benefits so as […]

QE in various forms is now very much part of the economic conversation, especially in connection with a fresh approach to financial issues by the new leadership of the Labour party. Dynamic Quantitative Easing remains under government, not bank, control and targets specific investment projects without borrowing, interest or repayments. It can reboot the economy, boost manufacturing and exports […]

George Osborne had a bit of a field day yesterday with his parliamentary gimmick which has wound Labour up in knots. Corbyn looked subdued as his Shadow Chancellor put a brave face on what had been something of a disaster. Underlying all of it is the fact that the parliamentary party is way out of […]

QE in various forms is now very much part of the economic conversation, especially in connection with a fresh approach to financial issues by the new leadership of the Labour party. Dynamic Quantitative Easing remains under government, not bank, control and targets specific investment projects without borrowing, interest or repayments. It can reboot the economy, boost manufacturing and exports […]

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 […]