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 […]
This blog has been critical of Corbyn being a bit loose in his responses to trap questions about national security. But as the weekend has evolved it is clear that a different kind of leadership from him is developing which the dreary old pros at once dismissed as a shambles, but which is beginning to look […]
Well! We start the day with the Tories on a roll ringing up Labour MP’s and shadow ministers trying to get their bombing votes making the media headlines, then suddenly all is eclipsed by the forced resignation of a Tory minister over a bullying scandal at the heart of the party’s electoral machine. It is a […]
It is reported that Corbyn has emailed his members asking them to give their views on Cameron’s bombing plans. With his Shadow Cabinet in open revolt and briefing against him, senior government ministers openly ringing Labour MPs, as if they were their own, and a chorus of calls for him to quit, nobody can say […]
BROWSE MY BOOKS WITH THESE LINKS Malcolm Blair-Robinson U.S Malcolm Blair-Robinson UK
Not quite perhaps, but nearly. The problem is simple. The party members and supporters have chosen, and polls of them indicate they approve of, Jeremy Corbyn, by a democratic margin which is overwhelming. He stands far to the left of what was once called New Labour. The majority of Labour MPs are of the New […]
Cameron made his case. Politically it was attractive. Strategically it was very weak. This is the key. Britain and its allies in the West, especially the US, stand at the head of a string of failed military interventions which although produced an apparent initial military victory, caused the failure of everything that came after. Libya, Iraq […]
Not really. Too much of the package is based upon forecasts which statistically have only a 55% chance of being right. Would you fly in an aircraft with only a 55% chance of getting there? No. So Osborne, who has missed almost every target in every forecast he has ever set, giving another bravura performance in […]
Russia certainly tests everybody’s patience with its constant probing of other people’s air space; we in these islands are familiar with their bombers passing close by. So it may not have come as a big surprise that the Turks acted as they did. However when you look at the incident the Turkish position is well nigh […]
The C of E has produced quite a good little video in which the Lord’s Prayer is recited by a variety of people, mostly ordinary but starting with the Archbishop of Canterbury. This quite clever piece was designed to go out on cinema screens across the country as an ad prior to the big feature, […]