Author: Malcolm Blair-Robinson

NHS Funding

January 7, 2019 By Malcolm Blair-Robinson

The NHS is chronically underfunded, the more so if you include social care. The much trumpeted £20 billion a year extra  to be reached over five years is really inadequate, as the government very well knows. The budget of roughly  £125 billion sounds a lot but in the context of the entire health system it […]

What Now For May?

January 6, 2019 By Malcolm Blair-Robinson

You can well ask. Never has the political situation in this country been more confused and uncertain when a major constitutional and economic change is bearing down upon a parliament unable to agree about anything. May still thinks she can get her deal through the House. Perhaps. But Perhaps not. Then what? A crash Brexit. […]

What Now For Trump?

January 5, 2019 By Malcolm Blair-Robinson

Trump is obsessing about his Wall. His redneck base loves it. But the majority of Americans are repelled by it because walls are a very un-American idea. That fact and the desire for an affordable national healthcare system providing universal cover no matter what infirmities you have, is the reason that the Republicans lost the […]

Free Download: Gothic Crime x 2 In One

December 30, 2018 By Malcolm Blair-Robinson

GET YOUR COPY NOW! A Gift of Treason  The narrow, ordered life of a gentle but almost reclusive artist, Jane Block, is disturbed when a bequest, intended for her dead mother, passes to her. Mystery surrounds the nature of the inheritance and Jane is led on a sinister trail to secrets of the past, forcing her […]

Migrants Crossing the Channel

December 30, 2018 By Malcolm Blair-Robinson

It would be a pity if the UK became heartless to the plight of migrants, yet there is real public anxiety about immigration. Locally people can feel overwhelmed by the influx of a new culture, even if the overall outcome for the country is positive. The diaspora of people from poorer countries to the magnet […]