When a party elects with a landslide a serial rebel as its leader, it must not be surprised if that leader takes a relaxed view of rebellion and stepping out of line. It looks like indiscipline but it is in fact an open and expressive form of politics which increasing numbers of the public prefer. […]
At last we are getting some concrete analysis to support the Leave campaign. This blog has complained a good deal about the lack of a plan. Eight respected economists have now come out in support, citing opinions and evidence which can be interpreted to support the notion of greater economic growth if we leave the […]
Whatever strategy the befuddled grandees of the GOP think there are pursuing is not working. Their nightmare has just won six states in a row and won them big. Even if neither home nor dry, Trump is most certainly in the front yard and any attempt now to shut him out will cost the GOP the […]
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 […]
This dispute has now turned ugly. The junior doctors are about to go out on all out strike for the first time in the history of the NHS. The government now accuses them of being politically motivated and trying to bring down the Health Secretary and even the government itself. This is an extraordinary claim […]
Only a minority can remember the day Elizabeth II became Queen. I was just coming up to thirteen at the time and I recall it with surprising clarity. It was a chill and gloomy day when the news came, in a formal announcement on the BBC radio (then the wireless) that the King was dead. […]
The latest edition of this ever popular psycho-thriller, now in its twentieth year, has a dramatic new cover and is offered for a limited period at the special price of £5.99 paperback and .99p Download. A haunting tale of passion and the paranormal, written in the style of its setting in the 1920s. A tiny English […]
President Obama, hugely popular in the UK, has not hidden behind impartiality nor minced his words. The vote is for the British people, but here is what I think is his message. Moreover he drives in hard. As president of the US he has a right to state America’s preference over what happens in Europe, because […]
The latest edition of this ever popular psycho-thriller, now in its twentieth year, has a dramatic new cover and is offered for a limited period at the special price of £5.99 paperback and .99p Download. A haunting tale of passion and the paranormal, written in the style of its setting in the 1920s. A tiny English […]
It looks as if we have got through the idiotic phase of wild and dire forecasts from Remain and rivers of phantom cash from Leave. We are moving into a new dimension where hard truths are debated. Leave’s heavy weapons are immigration and borders. Remain’s heavy weapons are jobs and the economy. Remain’s weapons are more powerful. At this […]