At the heart of the British State lies a secret to keep which a cabal of shadowy establishment figures is authorised to kill. At the centre of the drama is a family with baggage from the past which has access to the truth and determines to expose it. That provokes a battle of wits among […]
Once again sleaze is the driver of reform. Why does it always have to get to this? Why do our national institutions like Church and State find it so difficult to keep up with modern life, in any age, but especially now in the age of mass connectivity? Of course there needs to be an […]
As usual when some crisis bursts in Europe, political has-beens tour the media declaring the biggest crisis since WWII and in this case ‘a new Spanish Civil War’. Unfortunately these folk of yesteryear, often rather tarnished by mishaps of their own, cannot earn appearance fees by being sensible, because they are past their sell by […]
The most telling thing about the release of the latest batch of Kennedy papers is that President Trump was forced by the US security agencies, in the interests of national security, to hold some back. Originally he had announced he would release them all. Over fifty years after the event there cannot be any live […]
Kenya was once a beacon of calm good governance in post empire Africa. But no longer. The rules of democracy are not being obeyed. These are that elections must be free fair and accepted as final; the government must govern for all; the losers must be willing to be governed by the winners who must […]
Let us hope that this time the MPC will at last do what it should have done years, literally, ago, and move interest rates upwards. It has got nothing to do with slightly better growth, 0.4 is little more than flat lining in the big scheme of things, it has to do with the exploding […]
Rory Stewart, perhaps one of the best political historians around and an expert on the origins of conflict in the Middle East, has said that British IS fighters are so full of hate that they should be killed, rather than be allowed back into the UK. Unfortunately Stewart is also a government minister, so his […]
But will he? This country needs up to 2 million new homes built over the next four of five years. Not to buy, but to rent. At affordable prices so that a nurse can rent a decent home, have money over to save and live without resorting to food banks. With proper long term tenancies […]
The Brussels drama ended better for May than might have been the case, as EU leaders made a serious attempt to appear more sympathetic and accommodating. However their position remains unchanged on all the key issues. They have conceded that they will work out how to conduct trade negotiations in the future, which, because they […]
Set in the mid nineteen nineties, this fast moving thriller lifts the curtain on sex, sleaze and corruption in high places as the long reign of the government totters to an end, following the ousting of the iconic Margaret Thatcher. Tor Raven’s novel captures the mood of those times with a host of fictional characters […]