Malcolm Blair-Robinson's Blog, page 194
December 16, 2014
Hess Enigma: Now Live
The new Tor Raven novel HESS ENIGMA is now available worldwide in paperback and on Kindle.
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 to reveal it would somehow undermine the honour and constitutional fabric of the United Kingdom. Who was plotting against Churchill? What were the peace terms on offer? What happened to Hess? Was he killed in the War? Was the prisoner in Spandau a double?
Taking place in the modern day but with flashback chapters which gradually unfold the hidden secrets, the novel is a fast moving and compelling read.
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English Votes For English Laws.
Once again we are floundering about because Cameron shot his mouth off and promised something he cannot deliver. William Hague’s statement of options to the House of Commons today amounted to a muddling fudge which few would find made any sense and which would further turn people off politics.
The only way to have English laws exclusively made by English MP’s is to have an English Parliament. Anything else will lead to all kinds of conflicts, muddles and confusions. And the simplest way to achieve that is to abolish the House of Lords and put in its place a United Kingdom Parliament, elected by proportional representation from all across the Kingdom, responsible for the currency, foreign policy, defence and and issues involving all four countries together which are not devolved. It would also act as the revising chamber for all the national parliaments. The Prime Minister of the UK would not be the same as the First Minister of England. The English Parliament could then devolve power to its Cities and Regions. It would bring the government back to the people, who might then start to take an interest in it, just as they have in Scotland.
Christmas Book Bargains
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From TOR RAVEN
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From MALCOLM BLAIR-ROBINSON
These two mega thrillers are a must for those who love historical drama and political intrigue.
Hess Book: Buy Now!
The new Tor Raven novel HESS ENIGMA is now available worldwide in paperback and on Kindle.
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 to reveal it would somehow undermine the honour and constitutional fabric of the United Kingdom. Who was plotting against Churchill? What were the peace terms on offer? What happened to Hess? Was he killed in the War? Was the prisoner in Spandau a double?
Taking place in the modern day but with flashback chapters which gradually unfold the hidden secrets, the novel is a fast moving and compelling read based on the family knowledge of the author whose parents had connections to both Hess and Hitler and to British Intelligence.
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December 15, 2014
New Hess Book Soon
COMING SOON!
Books: Christmas Sale
There is nothing better for stocking fillers and e-gifts than good reads! Lyndon Books offer via Amazon big Christmas sale bargains. Paperbacks from £4.99 or currency equivalent and Kindle downloads less than a £ or $. Just 77p 0r 99c!
From TOR RAVEN
Download all four fast reading thrillers now! Or buy paperbacks. Orders over £10 postage free.
From MALCOLM BLAIR-ROBINSON
These two mega thrillers are a must for those who love historical drama and political intrigue.
December 14, 2014
Book Bargains
There is nothing better for stocking fillers and e-gifts than good reads! Lyndon Books offer via Amazon big Christmas sale bargains. Paperbacks from £4.99 or currency equivalent and Kindle downloads £0.77p incl VAT.
From TOR RAVEN
Download all four fast reading thrillers now! Or buy paperbacks. Orders over £10 postage free.
From MALCOLM BLAIR-ROBINSON
These two mega thrillers are a must for those who love historical drama and political intrigue.
The Truth About Torture
The rather battered Andrew Mitchell and the highly respected Andrew Tyrie have both made strong calls for Cameron to appoint a judge led inquiry to establish to what extent Britain is seeking to cover up its involvement in the torture of prisoners or the rendition processes of which torture was the end purpose. This blog fully concurs with the cogent arguments both senior Tories advanced on the media today. This blog does not, however, agree with appointing a judge to lead it, nor that it should be outside parliament and the democratic process. The revelations of the American torture programme have become public because of the work of a Senate committee. Here a beefed up Select Committee with draconian discovery powers, compulsory witness attendance and evidence under oath would be far better than another of these public inquiries, which do not work for sensitive political issues.
Their record is dismal. The Scott inquiry had its conclusions watered down to save the Major government. Hutton made a laughing stock of the process. Leveson has come to nothing with the newspaper industry refusing to sign up to the resultant proposals. Chilcot has still not reported five years on. The child abuse inquiry cannot even get started. The public is fed up with this self serving pantomime. It is time to do things differently.
More UK Troops to Iraq?
Once again we bumble forward on a military adventure not thought through to prop up a foreign policy which is dysfunctional. The Defence Secretary has announced that some hundreds of British troops are to go to Iraq to train local forces. What is the point of that? Where will this lead?
The talk of defeating ISIS by military means is way off the mark. It may be possible to contain its advance and this may have been done already. The Islamic State has fighters who have rampaged all over Syria and Iraq, but it is not a military power whose defeat on the battlefield will put it out of business. It is an idea and an ideology born out of Sunni disaffection with post Saddam Iraq and repudiation of the Sykes Picot borders of the old Ottoman territories, which ignored tribal roots and which amounted to a colonial carve up of spoils.
The only military solution to the problems in the Middle East is for one power to occupy the whole region. This would require an occupation army of about three million crack troops and local allied forces of about the same number. This is a military and political non-stater. The alternative is to step back and let the Arab nations sort out their differences on their own, disengaging from everything except the purchase of their oil, which believe me, all the warring parties are as keen as mustard to sell.
But to tinker about at the margin training people who only switch sides later is utterly futile in terms of ending suffering and achieving peace. The failed state line up of Iraq and Libya, together with imploding Syria and tottering Afghanistan should teach us that.
