You can stop this appalling situation, Home Secretary

Yet another British subject is about to be badly let down by our Government. Read More

Thoughts For The New Year

As I sit here at my study window, looking at our garden bravely taking the battering of yet another “ridge of low pressure from the Atlantic” those balmy summer days and, to my mind even lovelier, wonderful late autumnal afternoons from 2013 seem from another world. Read More

Leaving is not such an unattractive option

In UK businesses, small and large, there are definite signs of greater economic activity. The not-so-good news is that we still have it all to do. This is Asia’s century and becoming globally competitive is a Herculean work-in-progress. What’s more, we belong to a European club that is holding us back and if it is unreformed it will render the task impossible.
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What is really holding us back?

In UK businesses small and large, there are the definite signs of greater economic activity and more confidence. Not a boom but all the indicators are pointing in the right direction. That is the good news; the not-so-good news is that we still have it all to do…. Read More

Don’t just stand there… Do something!

I learned a long time ago not to listen to what politicians say, but to watch what they do.

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And we call this democracy!

The current electoral system is not delivering experienced quality into the gene pool from which the British people can choose those who can lead our Nation. Read More

Thatcher’s Funeral and Four-Party Politics……The Connection

Amongst all the commentary on Margaret Thatcher at the time of her death and subsequent funeral, if there was one recurring theme that rose to the surface every time, from friend and foe alike, it was that of ” the individual”. Read More