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 […]
The Prime Minister wants to bomb Syria. More precisely he wants to bomb IS in Syria. A persistent campaign is being waged to gain a majority for such action in the Commons. Sections of the press are driving public opinion towards supporting the Brits having a go. This bog is by no means a pacifist platform. […]
The reason Jeremy Corbyn has been elected by a landslide and the reason Labour activism is rejuvenated is because he has, in a parliamentary career of over thirty years, stuck to his principles and never trimmed his opinions to curry votes or gain popularity. When asked a question he answers from his heart; he tells […]
In the aftermath of the dreadful event there is much to be done. The injured have to be nursed, the bereaved consoled and supported, the emergency services thanked for undoubted acts of heroism and the investigating authorities have to pursue all leads to neutralise any remaining risk from other members of this terror unit. Also questions must […]
As the Paris death toll mounts as well as the list of the injured, it is impossible to overstate the sense of sadness and despair at such terrible loss of life, so much of it among the young. For the moment that is all that can or should be said be said by this blog, save for […]
DOWNLOAD OR PAPERBACK FROM .99P Rudolf Hess, Hitler’s deputy and right hand man, flew to Scotland on a mysterious peace mission in 1941, which has never been convincingly explained, to meet unidentified politicians who wanted to end the war. The truth has been covered up for generations because to reveal it would somehow undermine the […]
In the saga of stress and strain in the UK’s perception of Europe and what it wants it to be, there is at the heart of the matter a critical issue: the Euro. The Euro is the elephant in the room, because everybody breathes a sigh of relief that we did not join. Yet if […]
The Establishment is rattled. Its gutter paper, the Sun, is running a headline that Corbyn did not bow when he laid his wreath at the Cenotaph when he plainly did. The General goes on a chat show and breaches Constitutional convention to attack the views of an elected politician on a hot political issue of […]
This Blog is, as things stand, in favour of our nuclear deterrent. What is bang out of order, whatever the motive, is for the Chief of the Defence Staff to criticise the opinions, whatever they are, of an elected politician who is also the elected Leader of the Opposition. To appear on a TV chat show and […]
According to the Egyptian minister in charge of the investigation of the horrific Russian plane crash it is too early to tell what caused the crash, all options including a technical fault are still open and the noise abruptly ending the flight, recorded on one of the black boxes, needs to be analysed. He deplored speculation […]