Yesterday a minister resigned and received accolades from across the party spectrum but especially from the Tory back benches in the Commons. The spat is over betting machines, about which this blog knows next to nothing, but the budget is already overshadowed. More to the point opinion polls show that the vast majority believe austerity […]
The extraordinary cost of modern organised crime and its damage to the entire economic structure, is given prominence across the media today. It raises questions about which sort of crime must take precedence over another in the public interest. All of that is backward thinking. Crime is crime. If you are the victim of it, […]
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 […]
Shocking though the murder of the journalist Jamal Khashoggi certainly is in fact, in its grizzly brutality and in the difficulty in getting the Saudi’s to admit the truth, the even bigger worry is the war in Yemen. Because in Yemen many tens of thousands are already dead, but many more will die and especially […]
Compact Size edition, bag and pocket friendly paperback and phone friendly download Zara Vine is a modern detective with a troubled history. Dubbed the She Wolf, she drives all before her in the search for answers and uncovers crimes of world class horror in Book One. As the youngest Detective Superintendent of the Metropolitan Police […]
Not really. To paraphrase Churchill, it is not the end, or even the beginning of the end, but it might be the end of the beginning. There were no more cuts announced. But there were very few cuts cancelled and many remain in place to kick in. Instead of widely predicted tax rises, there were […]
Set in the mid nineteen nineties, this fast moving thriller lifts the curtain on sex, sleaze and corruption in high places. Tor Raven’s novel captures the mood of those times with a host of fictional characters who engage in political intrigue, money laundering and murder, pursued by an Irish investigative journalist and his girlfriend, […]
In the UK Brexit dominates everything and more on that over the next few days. Just to say for now a new question is creeping into the political calculation on that issue. Is Brexit doomed to fail? Something we will explore soon. But for now let us look at what it means to be on […]