To celebrate the launch of the new compact edition, with a striking new cover, of Hitler’s First Lady in denser type and therefore 100 pages shorter, the paperback will be on offer from today at the special price of £5.99, or currency equivalent, worldwide from Amazon. The new Kindle of this edition will be on sale […]
Whatever snap polls say and ignoring the spinners for either side, neither Salmond nor Darling delivered a knockout blow. Both had success but both had a critical failure. What was good was the emotion which both men brought to the debate; sometimes they found it hard to control themselves. Salmond waffled over the currency. Everybody knows […]
The support of this Blog for her courageous move in resigning her ministerial post, over the shockingly ambivalent performance of the Government in the face of the bombardment of Gaza, is both full hearted and heartfelt. The fact that she is resigning from the Foreign Office, where she will have been at the centre of the discussions, underscores […]
The dual signals now coming from Russia are in the classic conflicting form of the diplomatic message that the time has come to talk. On the one hand Russia has used its influence to make the separatists yield up control of the MH17 crash site and has not given any decisive help to separatist fighters […]
It is an odd paradox that Ed Milliband is a much better Leader of the Opposition than David Cameron is Prime Minister, yet the latter is popular in his role and the latter is not. Readers of this blog will know that it is my policy to look beneath and behind and not to join tribal movements […]
The most striking outcome of the extensive programme of commemorations and historical analysis, including personal histories of ordinary men called to the colours or who volunteered, has been the final realisation that little good came out of what became the Great War. The scale of the sacrifice in no way measures up the meagre gains of […]
Like a multitude of others, this blog is outraged that a Church of England Canon has had his appointment as an NHS chaplain cancelled because he has recently married his partner and the local bishop has revoked his licence to act as a priest in the NHS. This is intolerable. Unfortunately the C of E […]
Cameron has written to NATO leaders urging various increases in military preparedness in eastern Europe to send a signal to Russia not to put a foot further west. To put it simply Cameron is either briefed by the wrong people or he is strategically clueless when it comes to foreign policy. In a changing world […]
There is quite a lot of media coverage of an alleged error in an article in the British Medical Journal which apparently contained a statistical mistake about the effectiveness and risks of blanket prescription of statins for everybody over, I believe, forty. This is what happened to me. I was prescribed statins when my cholesterol level […]
This is very bad news. The world will watch in mounting dismay at the very real suffering among the people of Gaza, who are, whatever their faults, human beings whose plight as ready targets in an area from which escape or safe shelter is impossible, ranks among one of the most upsetting in the long […]