Month: December 2015

Thatcher Era Political Thriller

December 28, 2015 By 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 […]

Climate Change: Time For Action

December 28, 2015 By Malcolm Blair-Robinson

Any fool can see that the climate is changing. You can debate whether this is due to man made factors or whether it is a continuous and natural process. The impact is already to be felt in weather conditions which are more extreme than we have been used to. Rainstorms are heavier, winds stronger, heat […]

Coal And Steel: The Killer Pound

December 24, 2015 By Malcolm Blair-Robinson

Deep coal mining has now ended altogether in the UK not because we have stopped using coal, but because we can import it more cheaply. The steel industry is in crisis because the home industry cannot compete with cheaper imports. Manufacturing is falling as are exports because our goods are too expensive. For all of […]

Brexit: Hague Warns

December 23, 2015 By Malcolm Blair-Robinson

William Hague was always regarded as a Euro sceptic. But he now warns that, for all its faults, Britain is better off in than out; the same view as this blog. He also warns, as this blog has done for months, that a vote to leave which would be achieved by the weight of English […]

Osborne Misses Another Target: Wow Really?

December 22, 2015 By Malcolm Blair-Robinson

So soon after his bravura performance in his Autumn Statement during which his party, lined up on the benches behind him, became hysterical with delight as he found big increases in tax revenue, about which nothing had been know before, the first test has been a spectacular disaster. Government Borrowing in November is up on last […]