Blog 2023 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 in political intrigue, sex, money laundering and murder, pursued by an Irish investigative journalist and his girlfriend, the daughter of a cabinet minister found dead in a hotel room after bondage sex.

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This phenomenon, which started in Greece, is rampaging across the United States propelling Trump onwards and upwards and keeping Sanders in the race although he has lost the nomination but might win the presidency with more certainty than Clinton. It may be the contagion is settling here in the UK as well. This movement does not recognise party nor the verities of politics, it feeds any swing to vote against the governing establishment, the ruling order, the current state of things and whatever has gone before. This would explain why it is, when every detailed economic analysis argues that Brexit would be madness, the polls show Leave either ahead or neck and neck with Remain.

In other words we may be approaching an historically dangerous moment when the referendum campaign ceases to be about the EU and the merits of staying or going and becomes instead a vote against the status quo. People are angry, fed up and they have had enough. Time to kick the system in the teeth?

If they do the subsequent dental bill will come as quite a shock.