FOR TWO DAYS ONLY Adolf Hitler is reviled as the greatest tyrant in history. Yet behind this well-deserved image, there was a man with personal and political secrets known to very few and almost unknown to conventional historians. This remarkable novel reveals his hitherto unknown connection with England, including a doomed love affair and a […]
There are a number of optimistic sounds from both sides of the channel and from Ireland that agreement may be nearer than we think. If this is the case it will produce a step change in the whole Brexit drama and change too the nature of the political dynamic in the UK. The reason for […]
Yesterday a minister resigned and received accolades from across the party spectrum but especially from the Tory back benches in the Commons. The spat is over betting machines, about which this blog knows next to nothing, but the budget is already overshadowed. More to the point opinion polls show that the vast majority believe austerity […]
The extraordinary cost of modern organised crime and its damage to the entire economic structure, is given prominence across the media today. It raises questions about which sort of crime must take precedence over another in the public interest. All of that is backward thinking. Crime is crime. If you are the victim of it, […]
At the heart of the British State lies a secret to keep which a cabal of shadowy establishment figures is authorised to kill. At the centre of the drama is a family with baggage from the past which has access to the truth and determines to expose it. That provokes a battle of wits among […]
Shocking though the murder of the journalist Jamal Khashoggi certainly is in fact, in its grizzly brutality and in the difficulty in getting the Saudi’s to admit the truth, the even bigger worry is the war in Yemen. Because in Yemen many tens of thousands are already dead, but many more will die and especially […]
Compact Size edition, bag and pocket friendly paperback and phone friendly download Zara Vine is a modern detective with a troubled history. Dubbed the She Wolf, she drives all before her in the search for answers and uncovers crimes of world class horror in Book One. As the youngest Detective Superintendent of the Metropolitan Police […]
Not really. To paraphrase Churchill, it is not the end, or even the beginning of the end, but it might be the end of the beginning. There were no more cuts announced. But there were very few cuts cancelled and many remain in place to kick in. Instead of widely predicted tax rises, there were […]