Month: November 2024

Labour And The Farmers

November 19, 2024 By Malcolm Blair-Robinson

Labour has made a mess of its farming inheritance tax idea. It is has backfired badly. At a time when the major priority should be to maximise home production of foods of all kinds, there should be a coherent plan to do so, with an enthused and re-energised farming community on side. Instead, the small […]

Welby and the C of E.

November 13, 2024 By Malcolm Blair-Robinson

Welby was right to resign as Archbishop. Nobody could possibly support his earlier decision to stay on or believe his assertions he did not know years ago exactly what Smyth was up to and what went on in those youth camps when he, Welby, was present. Unfortunately this latest drama in the public life of […]

Labour, Trump and the Changes to Come.

November 12, 2024 By Malcolm Blair-Robinson

The election of Trump, not by some quirk of electoral college distribution, but with a popular vote majority, 312 EC votes, the Senate and likely the House, was unforeseen by everyone and a political earthquake for the West. Last time Trump’s Presidency began in chaos with no plan and very little understanding of how Federal […]

Budget 2024: So Will it Work?

November 2, 2024 By Malcolm Blair-Robinson

No. Or to soften that short dismissal, not as the government would have hoped either short or long term. And it will be very difficult for the Labour party in the country to explain. But there was good stuff, buried in the noise around fuel payments and death duties on farmland. There was for the […]