… fix situations like these would we need much, if any, austerity pain?
Oct 022016
Jun 062016
Scottish Government is almost incoherent with delight at a recent discovery
Jun 042016
Self-seeking corruption is the ethos of a malodorous cadre of the non-productive, their blind eyes averted from the anguish they promote.
May 012016
The Land Registry in England and Wales earns money for the Treasury. Last year it gave £119M ($169M) back to the UK Treasury. Naturally enough selling it is a government aspiration — ideology being what it is.
Feb 252016
We moan, grumble, rant, rage and then do nothing. Why? Are we powerless?
Angels’ Share series (video)
Sam Duncan must stay alive, confront the criminals who want him dead and do it before they murder his little sister… now kidnapped and somehow ‘mislaid’
Jul 302015
There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics. Benjamin Disraeli Says Who? I thought M J Maroney said: there’s lies, damned lies, and statistics. But did he? When I checked the source out it was attributed to: Mark Twain, Benjamin Disraeli and one Leonard H Courtney. I opted for Disraeli, after all, he was a politician and must have known […]
Jul 042015
Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness – Confucius Human Kindness … Where’d it go How many awful, cruel, dishonest and utterly nasty people have enraged you recently? Where’s their human kindness? Watching the banking and political scandals always generates heat for me yet, of course there are many (at face value) nice people […]
Devil’s Due – the Price
Devil’s Due preview This is for people who’d like to have a pre-editor (sorry Ms Whiplash) taste of the third book in The Angels’ Share series, the Devil’s Due. 1 SAM CROSSED THE lounge and picked up. ‘Duncan.’ He listened and the slight smile on his face straightened. He stared at the wall. ‘On my […]
A drop of the hard stuff (video)
The Angels’ Share series Whisky? corruption, murder, mystery and people you’ll care about