Month: September 2017

Pay Cap: It Is Over Now

September 12, 2017 By Malcolm Blair-Robinson

The government had a late night and will be breathing a bleary eyed sigh of relief today after it managed to drive the second reading of its withdrawal bill through the Commons. It may prove a false dawn because many of its own backbenchers  are determined to curb the executive powers built in to this […]

The Repeal Bill

September 11, 2017 By Malcolm Blair-Robinson

The government has issued a warning to MPs not to vote against the Repeal Bill, because that would lead to a chaotic Brexit and people did not vote for that. This is a ridiculous argument. First of all people did not vote for anything like the reality of what Brexit is and means. They voted […]

May and the Hurricane Crisis: Late Again

September 8, 2017 By Malcolm Blair-Robinson

The historical links of the Caribbean result in several  nations having ties with the islands, providing a ready source of aid in the current devastation caused by Irma. France and Holland assembled assets and personnel on the islands falling within their jurisdiction in advance of the storm, knowing full well the severity of the forecast. […]

Brexit Troubles Build: A Tory Threat

September 6, 2017 By Malcolm Blair-Robinson

The government has a lot more challenges to contend with than who actually leads it. The Brexit negotiations are clearly not going well. There was a fundamental misunderstanding in the Leave camp about the way Europeans think and act and what their response would be. So when the EU negotiators step forward with an agreed […]

North Korea: China’s View

September 5, 2017 By Malcolm Blair-Robinson

Everyone knows what America thinks, even if the emphasis sometimes varies somewhat between Pentagon and White House. But China’s view is less well understood and it is China which  holds the key to the North Korea nuclear crisis. In fact China is as fed up as everybody else with its neighbour, but has a lot […]

North Korea: America’s Trade Threat

September 5, 2017 By Malcolm Blair-Robinson

President Putin has said, correctly, that the NK’s would rather eat grass than give up their nuclear weapons. So trade sanctions of whatever sort are futile.  The latest threat to halt trade between the US and any country which trades with China is ill conceived and impossible to implement without major damage to US economic […]

North Korea

September 4, 2017 By Malcolm Blair-Robinson

North Korea is a mystery to most of the world. Controlled by one family via inheritance and through totalitarian methods, its internal politics is in the iron grip of whoever is the hereditary leader, who hold the powers of life and death over those he rules. The country is in a permanent state of war […]

Hess Enigma: Get It Now

September 1, 2017 By Malcolm Blair-Robinson

DOWNLOAD OR PAPERBACK FROM .99P    Rudolf Hess, Hitler’s deputy and right hand man, flew to Scotland on a mysterious peace mission in 1941, which has never been convincingly explained, to meet unidentified politicians who wanted to end the war. The truth has been covered up for generations because to reveal it would somehow undermine […]