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 […]
If we have learned one thing since May 2015, it is that the Tory party post Thatcher cannot govern on its own. Having led a perfectly respectable and rather effective coalition government for five years, Cameron has managed to blunder out of Europe, threaten the Union, create economic uncertainty which will fester and grow and gone back […]
The Parliamentary Labour Party cannot easily be forgiven for provoking a leadership crisis at a moment when the country is convulsed by political, social, economic and international forces beyond its previous experience and traditions. The PLP has done so and thus put itself in conflict with the majority of the members of the Labour party in the […]
Turn Left To Power is an explosive dissertation in book form offering a fundamental redirection for Labour’s return to power, with bold ideas for a new economic and social settlement, including economic and taxation reform, restoration of responsibility in government and a renewal of democracy. Full of detailed information, hard facts and the results of thorough research and […]
As dreadful reports of anti-immigrant and racist abuse begin to come in, supported by truly shocking videos taken on phones and shown on the social media, it seems right to lambaste the entire political class for its self interest, half truths, broken promises and outright lies which have underpinned the most squalid political campaign ever conducted […]
There has been a big bounce in the market as the shock of Brexit wears off. There will be more plunges of course because the real uncertainties of what the impact will be on the UK’s economy remain. Additionally there is political confusion and deep divisions in the country itself of a kind unknown in modern times. All […]
Turn Left To Power is an explosive dissertation in book form offering a fundamental redirection for Labour’s return to power, with bold ideas for a new economic and social settlement, including economic and taxation reform, restoration of responsibility in government and a renewal of democracy. Full of detailed information, hard facts and the results of thorough research and […]
Things in politics can become chaotic, but like the financial markets today, can steady and settle at a new norm. But every now and then both run out of control and go over the cliff. This is what is happening to Labour now. There are at present two prospects open. A war between the parliamentary […]
The Cabinet meets today and so it should. This busted government is still in office and needs to come up with a plan. The busted opposition with bits flying everywhere has to be put back into some kind of order. This is no time for a vacuum of leadership and political chaos.
Once again Osborne is in evidence and gave an assured performance at the Treasury before the market opened this morning. The point that the financial system was robust enough, with support measures in place and in action, to withstand the Brexit shock is valid and a lot of midnight oil has been burned behind the scenes to […]