I have an important piece of brand new fiction now in process of writing and while that happens I will not have time to maintain a regular Blog. As there is so much going on at here and abroad, I will contribute from time to time on the big issues and links will appear on […]
The inevitable day of reckoning is coming. A combination of a split Tory party facing diametrically opposed positions plus the ultra unionist DUP which makes, under Arlene Foster, an industry out of blocking coherent government, which is why NI power sharing has stopped, means that the UK’s official position on Brexit is a fantasy assembled […]
There is something very odd about this Tory government. Thatcher would not even recognise it as a government. Because governments act and do and fix. But this government just talks. It talks in airy fairy terms about aspirations and hopes, whether about Brexit or tuition fees or whatever, as if accepting that it is not […]
The whole world shares America’s grief at the terrible mass shooting in which 17 children and teachers were gunned to death and many others badly injured. But then come the questions. Why does America do nothing about the root cause; the constitutional right for every citizen to bear arms? No other country in the world […]
People who see Brexit as a disaster do so because, by any rational measure, politically, economically and socially, it is. Boris has not, once again, advanced one single fact or figure which can offer any tangible prospect of an uplift in people’s lives as a consequence of this ridiculous adventure. What he did do is […]
There are three sea changes in the environment of modern life. These are the beginning. Others will follow. They are diverse at one level, but connected at another. Though each is unique in its time and way, the change process which brought it into being is both normal and good. Because what they are changing […]
This Blog often finds itself defending Trump, or at least taking a positive view of America’s rather turbulent direction of travel. Unfortunately the Trump presidency is always awash with blown up dramas of Trump gaffes, u-turns, insults and self-congratulation which certainly make the news story that he is like no other occupant of the White […]
So the two much trumpeted meetings of the so called War Cabinet, the cabinet sub-committee of senior ministers trying to work out what sort of Brexit they want, failed once again to agree. This is because half of them want to leave the EU without an agreement, cut adrift from everything EU and go WTO. […]
It is an inherent feature of Trump’s persona is that he only does beautiful. Put simply he claims the credit when things go right, but tries to duck away when things go wrong. So when he claimed the credit for the record rise in US stocks, he also bought into ownership when the market crashes. […]
No wonder Michel Barnier has said that trade barriers are unavoidable if we leave the customs union and single market. The government talks with many voices, all of which are conflicting. The hapless Brexit Committee is to meet twice this week to try to agree something, but there is no point in coming up with […]