Ideal holiday reading, two light romantic thrillers in one volume of over four hundred pages will keep you guessing from start to finish. Written in different styles to suit the mood of each story, you will meet the shy and retiring female artist in A Gift of Treason and an extrovert private eye in Stanislaw’s Crossing. Available now in Paperback or Kindle from […]

There is no doubt that religious wars, or wars between factions of one religion, generate a sickening level of atrocities and genocide. Christianity is not immune from these horrors as history sadly records. There is no doubt either that many Islamic State fighters have indulged in horrific brutalities, graphically described by those fortunate enough to make […]

Ideal holiday reading, two light romantic thrillers in one volume of over four hundred pages will keep you guessing from start to finish. Written in different styles to suit the mood of each story, you will meet the shy and retiring female artist in A Gift of Treason and an extrovert private eye in Stanislaw’s Crossing. Available now in Paperback or […]

Americans must ask themselves three questions. Why was it necessary to shoot an unarmed man in the course of apprehending him for a minor robbery? Why was it necessary to shoot him six times?  And what would they be saying if all this was happening, not in their own country, but Putin’s Russia? In the rest of the […]

For just one day a free copy of the original Kindle of this explosive Nazi era novel of drama and treachery, with clickable chapters and page numbers in a conventional book format for easy navigation. Click on the image to download free.   

After one or two nervous moments, not to mention the debacle  by the overpaid and spoiled footballers whose humiliating performance in Brazil shocked the country, England sport has had a golden summer. Top of the medals table at the Commonwealth Games, Winners of the Ladies Rugby World Cup, triumphant over India in the cricket Test […]

There are two kinds of foreign policy, proactive and reactive. Proactive is when a country controls its own policy; reactive is when it is tossed about by events. This blog does not need to specify the mess in which the UK now finds itself. There is also within the proactive option the strategic view and the […]

Passions are running high across the world over the suffering in Gaza among the tight packed civilian population, especially the women and children. There is near universal shock at the large death toll, many times greater than that suffered by the Israelis. Militarily Israel has the upper hand and its defence forces and missile systems […]

The West is nervous of the contents of the Russian convoy, now headed for Ukraine supposedly to bring humanitarian aid to the civilians cut off by the fighting between separatists and Kiev forces. The fear is of a Trojan horse carrying arms and ammunition within the food and other supplies. First of all the people hiding […]

There is little doubt that Scotland voting Yes would weaken the United Kingdom on the world stage. On the other hand it might force England to confront reality and see itself in a more self assertive and confident frame. Not since I was a child have I called myself, or heard other people call themselves, English. […]