Month: January 2017

May’s Industrial Strategy

January 25, 2017 By Malcolm Blair-Robinson

Sadly it is true that the outlines of thoughts, rather than a fully fledged plan, underpin a change of attitude from the May government towards a more interventionist approach to business. But there is nothing concrete and no evidence that more than small change will be on offer to kick start any programme to re-industrialize what […]

Supreme Court: The Verdict Predicted

January 24, 2017 By Malcolm Blair-Robinson

The government lost its appeal to the Supreme Court as most legal opinion expected, but it was a good judgement. It has established a modern interpretation of where executive power ends and parliamentary sovereignty begins. This was by an 8/3 majority, which is a good thing because it demonstrates to those who claimed there would […]

Trident: Misfire or Hack?

January 23, 2017 By Malcolm Blair-Robinson

There is some very fishy about this  report of a Trident missile going off course on test, while at the same time the submarine and crew, recommissioning after a refit, are passed A1. Evidently it was all hushed up and angry Labour is demanding explanations of why this was held back from disclosure during the […]

Trump: The EU and NATO

January 22, 2017 By Malcolm Blair-Robinson

There has not been an inaugural address like it. The first I remember watching on TV was JFK. I was impressed, especially the notion that he was the first western leader born ‘this century’, now the last century. Up till then everybody had been born in the nineteenth century. Since Kennedy nobody has said anything […]

Trump: The World Holds Its Breath

January 20, 2017 By Malcolm Blair-Robinson

Never since the inauguration of Abraham Lincoln has so much in the free world hinged upon the intentions of one man coming fresh to the Presidency. Freedom then was a very different concept to freedom now, but Lincoln set in train a change of direction for the United States which broadened the notion of what freedom meant […]