Let us step back from the argument in the Labour party and the jibes from the Tories about the new Bill before parliament which is designed to enshrine in law the requirement that ‘in normal times’ (?) no government may run a budget deficit. Forget party politics. This Bill or Charter or whatever it is, […]
In the view of this blog and many other commentators who look upon international affairs as an interaction of national interests which overlap, part, and then come together in different forms and ways, the West’s view of the world is muddled, its actions do more harm than good, it has no strategic view of where […]
News is leaking out of Downing Street on purpose that Cameron has four key ‘demands’ as the price for the UK staying in Europe. They make little sense. Apparently he is to seek an ‘explicit statement’ that the pound will remain a legitimate currency and that the EU will remain a multi-currency union. This is absurd. […]
BROWSE MY BOOKS WITH THESE LINKS Malcolm Blair-Robinson U.S Malcolm Blair-Robinson UK
This blog is beginning to look at some of the verities which have driven the political consensus, followed by New Labour and the Tories, which has produced difficulties for which they blame each other but for which both are responsible. In the news today is a further warning that the margin of relief in power generation […]
Certain media will have have a feast on news that Corbyn has ducked the ceremony associated with becoming a member of the Privy Council. An insult to the Queen and so on. No, not at all. Corbyn is not an opportunist politician. He has not changed his tune to gain popularity. He has sat in the […]
There was something rather surreal about David Cameron’s speech yesterday. Much of it was admirable and far to the left of any modern definition of what a Tory is. Macmillan would have been heartened. Thatcher would have scoffed. She had a word for Tories who leaned left. Wet. There was certainly nothing wet about Teresa May’s […]
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 […]
It is perhaps not easy for the Eton/ Oxbridge educated elite which today runs our country to understand the very real crisis in family structures which has occurred, nor to sense the distress and hopelessness enveloping the lives of far too many young people. I am sorry for the rather catty opening to this post, but I do […]
George Osborne is the Chancellor of the Exchequer, First Secretary of State and Chief Strategist of the Conservative Party. Today he took the Tory conference by storm with a further shift onto New Labour’s turf which included poaching one of their ex-ministers. He declared the Conservatives not only the party of the centre but also the […]