Shia Militias are said to be rushing to Ramadi, where Iraqi forces have been routed by another IS advance. This shambles of a failed state is testament to the almost total ineptitude of Bush and Blair when they launched a war on a false premise without an exit strategy or a coherent blueprint for the […]
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Len McCluskey, leader of Unite, has warned Labour that it must return to being the party of ordinary working people. Jon Cruddas is calling for a radical rethink as the party faces, in his view, its greatest crisis ever. These two men are saying what ordinary voters are saying. It is no longer clear what the […]
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UKIP achieved nearly four million votes. For a one man band that is a remarkable achievement. That our democracy is so organised as to deny the party any seats bar 1, when the SNP with one and a half million votes get 56 seats and the Liberal Democrats get 8 for two and a half million votes, […]
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 engage […]
It is the modern trend for defeated parties to topple into recriminations and leadership battles, reinforcing the belief among voters that modern politicians are more interested in themselves and power than in social advancement and the wellbeing of the people they represent. I have previously posted how the Churchills, Atlees, Wilsons and Heaths stayed on to fight […]
Paperback or Kindle UK US 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 […]
The Tory party is in a triumphalist mood at the moment because they have for the first time since 1992 a mandate to govern. Without wishing to be mean (well just a little) and to cast a teeny shadow over the celebrations (actually quite a big one) I have had a look at the figures. […]
The news that Michael Gove is appointed Justice Secretary with the job of introducing a Bill of Rights which enables the UK to withdraw from the human rights structure of Europe including its court of which we are a founding member has significant implications. On the face of it the administration of UK justice would […]