Category: Malcolm Blair Robinson

Gove and Clegg at War

May 11, 2014 By Malcolm Blair-Robinson

Oh dear! This is not good. Fights between government and opposition are a required part of the Constitution, but public fights among members of the Cabinet are a no no. We have to remember that this is a coalition government, so we are told, and they may not always see eye to eye. Perhaps not, but […]

Euro Song Contest

May 11, 2014 By Malcolm Blair-Robinson

It is very disappointing for the talented Molly Smitten-Downes not to make the top five as predicted by many. Her initiative, her performance, her creativity and her talent, as well as the choreography of her act, deserved a much better points total than she actually achieved. The forty points she did get were a reflection of […]

UK House Price Surge: Carney’s Big Test

May 10, 2014 By Malcolm Blair-Robinson

As this blog has warned time after time, rebuilding the economy on the back of a surge in house prices will be to guarantee another crash. Government ministers are rejoicing at the increasing forecasts of economic growth, putting the UK ahead of almost everyone else, while heedless of the warnings of almost every single forecaster that there […]

Astra Zeneca and Pfizer : Good For Whom?

May 7, 2014 By Malcolm Blair-Robinson

This proposed takeover has become a political hot potato in Britain, with all sides wading in across the ideological span, from state intervention to free markets. The potential problem, given that eventually Pfizer make a sufficiently attractive offer to tempt AZ investors, stems not from the specifics of this deal, but from the broken promises of the […]

Hitler’s First Lady

May 5, 2014 By Malcolm Blair-Robinson

What was Gauleiter Kaufmann’s relationship with Hitler? Why alone among the top Nazis did he receive only the kind of prison sentence you would expect for a bit of burglary? Why did he surrender Hamburg to the British without a fight? Find the answers in my explosive new novel, now in Paperback as well as on Kindle. Hitler’s First […]

Gerry Adams: What Price For Peace?

May 5, 2014 By Malcolm Blair-Robinson

The arrest of Gerry Adams has not been universally welcomed, even by those who consider him guilty, if not directly, by association. Sinn Fein has complained that there may still be hard core loyalist elements within the PSNI who want to see Adams brought down and who are lukewarm about the peace process. The unionists insist […]

Ukraine: Russia And The West

May 4, 2014 By Malcolm Blair-Robinson

This Blog has been consistently critical ( and in my book 2010 A Blueprint For Change) of the post cold war approach of the West to Russia, especially the UK and US. Essentially the new world order created by the collapse of the Soviet Union called for a fresh approach to foreign policy, based not upon […]