Blog 2023 Malcolm Blair-Robinson

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Rudolf Hess, Hitler’s deputy and right hand man, flew to Scotland on a mysterious peace mission in 1941, which has never been convincingly explained, to meet unidentified politicians who wanted to end the war. The truth has been covered up for generations because to reveal it would somehow undermine the honour and constitutional fabric of the United Kingdom. Who was plotting against Churchill? What were the peace terms on offer? What happened to Hess? Was he killed in the War? Was the prisoner in Spandau a double?
There are many questions to which in the modern day one man, Saul Benedict has all the answers, because his parents were players in the drama involving Churchill, Hitler, leading politicians and an important Royal. Saul is an author and declares his intention to write a book to reveal all, but he is shot dead, apparently accidentally by a poacher. But was it an accident? Rick Coleman an investigative journalist determines to find out and in doing so to uncover the mystery.
Taking place in the modern day but with flashback chapters which gradually unfold the hidden secrets, the novel is a fast moving and compelling read based on the family knowledge of the author whose parents had connections to both Hess and Hitler and to British Intelligence.  

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One of the drivers of the influx of workers from the EU, particularly the Eastern EU, has in the past been the high value of sterling in relation to the euro. In the eurozone a euro buys more or less what a pound buys in the UK. But if you are from the euro area and you work  here and send money home, there has been a handy bonus because the converted pounds produce more euros. With the decline of sterling since the Brexit vote and the increased strength of the euro economy, which is now growing faster than a UK mired in uncertainty about the Brexit deal, the bonus has dwindled to next to nothing. Many analysts expect parity when we reach the actual Brexit moment.

So the fact that the net migration numbers are falling has probably as much to do with the currency as it has to do with politics.