It is being trailed across the media that the Cabinet, meeting as I write this, will endorse the notion of a third runway at Heathrow. If it does, the idea has to get through parliament, by no means certain, before it will face challenges in the courts. All this means that even if the government […]
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 […]
The sense of outrage among America’s closest Western allies over the imposition of steel tariffs is remarkable. The published language is the most critical of America for many decades and comes from all sides. The private language in the circles of power in unprintable. The EU, Canada and Mexico feel betrayed and bullied by a […]