It is clear that the response by the authorities to Grenfell came up short at almost every level. But it is also clear that minor events by comparison, like flash floods, leave those affected traumatised and often lacking the essentials of life. There is a common complaint that although the emergency services are wonderful, the […]
Italy is a great country. Italians are great people. They make great things like cars and fridges which we use and enjoy. They have wonderful cities and art treasures few can match. We love Italian food. We enjoy great holidays in Italy from the mountains to the beaches. But they have, for years, suffered from […]
There was talk that it might be close. In the event is was a landslide to empower women to make their own choices about pregnancy and all its consequences. This is wonderful news and will stop so much heartache, suffering and guilt, let alone risk. From being one of the most conservative countries in Europe, […]
Dr. Rachael Benedict is an American historian and a best-selling author. She has a British connection through her estranged father Saul, an English thriller writer. Saul, whose parents were of Anglo-German origin, has spent much of his life plotting to expose secrets from World War Two, which are so sensitive they have been subject to […]
Set in the mid nineteen nineties, this fast moving thriller lifts the curtain on sex, sleaze and corruption in high places as the long reign of the government totters to an end, following the ousting of the iconic Margaret Thatcher. The novel catches the mood of those times with a host of fictional characters who […]
For those outside the US who watch and try to fathom the Trump presidency, the extraordinary sequence of events which has unfolded in the saga of the projected meeting with Kim Jon Un, defies explanation. The surprise was that it was set up at all and when it was it became a foreign policy triumph […]
The revelation from HMRC that the extra cost to the economy of new technology controlled borders will be in the order of £20 billion annually comes as no surprise. Countries do not organise customs unions and free trade deals because they do not know what to do with their days; they set them up because […]
This Blog has posted so many times about the complete failure of the present fixed budget taxation funded NHS business model that I will not bore readers by going over it all again. Likewise the fundamentally ridiculous management structure where no person takes responsibility for anything and multitudes of boards and quangos fight upon each […]
Dr. Rachael Benedict is an American historian and a best-selling author. She has a British connection through her estranged father Saul, an English thriller writer. Saul, whose parents were of Anglo-German origin, has spent much of his life plotting to expose secrets from World War Two, which are so sensitive they have been subject to […]
This Blog does not engage in Royal comment, unless the issue is the Constitution. But the historic wedding yesterday deserves just a few words. It was a ceremony like no other in the history of what I have always thought the rather stodgy but reliable House of Windsor. It was not just that the mixed […]