Month: February 2016

Another Hospital Bombed

February 15, 2016 By Malcolm Blair-Robinson

Last time it was the Americans in Afghanistan. This time it is the Russians in Syria. The common theme of the two is the deaths not just of the sick and wounded, but of the super-brave who volunteer to care for them when they could instead lead ordinary lives in a safe country and earn […]

Transatlantic Thriller: Download Now.

February 13, 2016 By Malcolm Blair-Robinson

Dr. Rachael Benedict is an American historian and a best-selling author. Through the death of her estranged father she sets out to expose secrets from World War Two, which are so sensitive they have been subject to an extensive cover-up lasting seventy years.  This provokes a killing spree as parts of the security services of both Britain and […]

Syria: Is The Hope Real?

February 13, 2016 By Malcolm Blair-Robinson

The recently agreed fighting pause is a cause for celebration within the limited boundary of satisfaction at talks between  engaged powers (but not the belligerents) all of whom want peace, but each of whom has a different view of what that peace should look like. We all know what Syrians towns look like, many of centuries standing and […]

NHS: The Doctors

February 12, 2016 By Malcolm Blair-Robinson

The Health Secretary has decided to impose a new contract on junior doctors. Maybe introduce would have been a better word. To lay people the published terms look quite generous, but the working hours of junior doctors are to those outside the medical world, horrific. The whole argument is a product of the structural failure of […]

New Hampshire: Political Earthquake

February 10, 2016 By Malcolm Blair-Robinson

There is nobody on earth who has the vaguest clue about US politics who would a year ago  have predicted that Donald Trump (What? have you gone mad?) would be leading for the Republican nomination and a socialist Bernie Sanders (Who ? And there is no such thing as socialism in the US. It is political […]

Purple Killing: Download or Paperback

February 8, 2016 By Malcolm Blair-Robinson

Dr. Rachael Benedict is an American historian and a best-selling author. Through the death of her estranged father she sets out to expose secrets from World War Two, which are so sensitive they have been subject to an extensive cover-up lasting seventy years.  This provokes a killing spree as parts of the security services of both Britain and […]

North Korea: A Way Forward?

February 8, 2016 By Malcolm Blair-Robinson

There is no more perplexing state than North Korea. Under the continuous rule of one family since its inception it has aspects of a Kingdom. The parades are evocative of Nuremberg at the height of the Nazi era. It remains in a technical state of war with South Korea. It has enormous economic problems, part self […]

Republican Battle: Who Is Winning?

February 7, 2016 By Malcolm Blair-Robinson

At the moment nobody. There seems to have been a rather desperate TV debate among the candidates, all of whom are now waking up to the fact that they are approaching a win or bust moment. So they all piled in, hoping to score a point. Locals report that Bush had a better night than previously,Trump […]