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Tuesday, November 27th, 2018ZARA VINE ONE: READ FREE OR BUY
Tuesday, November 27th, 2018Gripping new crime thriller from Tor Raven. New genre, new characters, new style, fast, punchy and very readable. Download or Paperback. OR READ FREE with AMAZON PRIME ON KINDLE UNLIMITED. Click Image For Details
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Zara Vine is a modern woman with a troubled history and a talent for turning baggage into power. As the youngest Detective Superintendent of the Metropolitan Police she is forced to resign because of an armed response in which an innocent is shot. Her career in tatters, her marriage over and worst of all, the death of her only child, she decides to leap to oblivion from a famous cliff top. Saved by a Samaritan, she self-drives a rebirth and joins the Polechester City Police, the smallest UK force. Initially tasked with Cold Cases, she is called in to solve a series of murders with sinister undertones and national implications. But who exactly is she? Who are her real masters? What is her agenda? Dubbed the She Wolf and the alpha female, she drives all before her in the search for answers and uncovers crimes of world class horror in Book One. Written in a very modern style, compelling, taught with emotion, passion and fear, Zara Vine will draw you in and grip you right through to the stunning conclusion. It will also stir your conscience as it asks some of the questions few dare confront. U.S.A.
BREXIT CRISIS: May’s Plan Doomed? And Brexit too?
Tuesday, November 27th, 2018It now seems clear that however you try to define it, Brexit is impossible to deliver. The whole proposition was from the very start an illusion. It is technically feasible, if everybody is agreed on how it is to be done, under what rules and without regard to the fact that irreconcilable interests are in play.
But if you factor in that the United Kingdom is split, with Scotland and Northern Ireland voting remain and England and Wales voting to leave and that the margins are narrow, you have a split country trying to make the biggest constitutional change since the days of Oliver Cromwell. And in a democracy to do that, you must have a clear and unambiguous majority, at least two thirds. Add to that unity must prevail for each preference. Yes must agree what yes means and No must agree what no means.
Every particle of that is missing in this current Brexit crisis, made worse by the Fixed Term Parliament Act, ending the traditional Prime Ministerial power to go to the country and the Supreme Court Ruling that Article 50 and its consequences must be subject to parliamentary approval. This tinkering with what had been previous practices within our unwritten constitution, has changed the country from one renowned for strong decisive government, to one where, for the moment at least, effective government has collapsed. The executive authority of the PM is hobbled and the executive power of the cabinet is split. If that is not enough we have to face the prospect of new sectarian unrest over the Irish Border and a dash for independence by an angry Scotland caught up in the chaos.
Both main parties are split on the key question and split again within each faction. Everybody is against May’s agreed withdrawal deal, but there is not only no other plan prepared, but no agreement anywhere over what such a plan should be. There is no prospect in sight of unity on what Brexit is and what the benefits will be. Eventually a consensus will emerge from the confusion to back the only known viable option.
To abandon the project and stay in the EU.