Blog 2023 Malcolm Blair-Robinson

Gripping 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

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.

Nobody predicted what is now happening, because not a single rational person thought events  unfolding could happen. In Great Britain. The home of stable, decisive government and world class statecraft. Yet, here we are with a government now on the threshold of being voted in contempt of parliament and additionally facing certain defeat on its main policy platform, upon which parliament itself is so divided no alternative is in sight with any chance of commanding a majority. But, through tinkering with our fabled unwritten constitution (rather than writing and codifying a proper one approved by the people) without the constitutional means to end this torture.

Before the idiotic Fixed Term Parliament act we had two balancing powers which avoided any prospect of the spectacle now unfolding. The Prime Minister alone had the power to ask the Queen for a dissolution, so as to give democratic voice to the people and could do so without notice to anybody but the Monarch. And Parliament could sack the government by passing a motion of no confidence in it. If carried by one vote the government resigned and an election was called. That is how Thatcher came to power in 1979.

So here we are today in the midst of the greatest constitutional change since the Reformation, promoted as a restoration of sovereignty previously ceded to the EU, but which in the event turns out to be the greatest loss of sovereignty in our history.  Nobody in government, parliament, the law, the media or anywhere knows what will happen next.