The Home Secretary recently warned the country that child abuse was endemic and threaded into every level of society and all across the country, in all classes, from the most exalted to the very lowly and in institutions which are part of the national fabric of education, safety, care and development. Thus it should come […]
Nicola Sturgeon, the leader of the Scottish Nationalists, says something and it is headline national news. She is not even standing for the Westminster parliament. Yet everyone knows that her party, defeated in the independence referendum, rides now so high that it it is likely to be the third largest party in the House of […]
Politicians do not like to talk about the fragile nature of the UK’s Economic Recovery. Yet it remains rooted in borrowing, asset inflation, housing costs which are out of control and a housing shortage which continues to grow. It is consumption based in a country which no longer makes things for shoppers to buy, so […]
Yesterday in a little reported radio interview on BBC R4, the NATO Secretary General, in answer to a question, said there was no reason why countries like Georgia and Ukraine should not join NATO if their populations voted to do so and the other members accepted their applications, and once members they would be subject to the guarantee that […]
St.John Whilloe is the black sheep member of a wealthy legal family, whose firm of solicitors looks after the affairs of many of the top families in the country. He is consulted by a young woman who claims to be frightened by her husband. Things are not as they seem and St.John finds himself drawn […]
It is rare for this blog to come to the rescue of politicians caught out, but Shapps is not Rifkind. It appears he kept an interest in his business when first elected to parliament in 2005 and wound it down before giving it up. He was self employed so it would be perfectly reasonable for […]
An English village slumbers on the Surrey/Sussex borders, but the pastoral exterior hides a number of nightmare secrets. The return of a young man, Philip, after a long absence stirs memories of the horrific murder of his mother and uncle years earlier and of an ancient curse delivered upon the family in Napoleonic times. The […]
The US is miffed that the UK has applied for membership of the new Chinese led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank. There have been sniffy comments about meeting ethical standards and the environment. Coming from the American government there is a ring of sour grapes in all this. This blog has complained often of the lack […]
Politicians do not like to talk about the fragile nature of the UK’s Economic Recovery. Yet it remains rooted in borrowing, asset inflation, housing costs which are out of control and a housing shortage which continues to grow. It is consumption based in a country which no longer makes things for shoppers to buy, so […]