Dodging Tax

February 10, 2015 By Malcolm Blair-Robinson

The big story of today is tax evasion in the Swiss office of Britain’s biggest bank and who knew about what when, from Cameron downwards. Part of the problem is Britain’s tax code which runs to 17000 pages. Within it are multitudes of allowances, as well as loopholes and ambiguities. It is only a small […]

Hess Enigma: Download for 99p or 99c

February 9, 2015 By Malcolm Blair-Robinson

The new Tor Raven novel HESS ENIGMA is now available for just 99p or 99c on Kindle for a short promo. Hurry, download NOW!! Or buy the paperback for £5.99 Follow Amazon links below. 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, […]

Ukraine : The Arguments

February 9, 2015 By Malcolm Blair-Robinson

This is the position of the West. Russia has violated international law by trying to redraw the map of Eastern Europe. She has not respected the post Soviet borders of a now independent democratic state and is stoking a war by arming and supplying militant separatists in the eastern provinces of Ukraine, which prevent the Ukrainian […]

NHS Worries

February 8, 2015 By Malcolm Blair-Robinson

The news that hundreds of avoidable deaths have been saved by putting eleven hospital trusts into special measures is mixed news. It is very good that death rates have fallen; it shows that very large numbers of avoidable deaths occur in the NHS and that is very bad. This underscores the reality of the NHS. […]

Ukraine Weapons: Merkel Is Right

February 7, 2015 By Malcolm Blair-Robinson

The German Chancellor openly disagrees with the chatter coming out of Washington and NATO that somehow supplying beefed up weapons to the Kiev government, in which this blog has scant confidence, would help to bring peace. It would stoke war and give Russia a pretext to fight it in the open with its own forces to […]

Moscow: Peace Hopes

February 6, 2015 By Malcolm Blair-Robinson

Europe faces two threats at the moment. Knee jerkers would say from Greece and Russia. It fact both come from within itself. The Greek problem, which has been discussed elsewhere, is entirely of Europe’s making, although it blames Greece for all of it. Likewise Ukraine, but according to Europe it is all Russia’s fault. Well, […]