NEW ROYAL NAVY – BRITAIN WAIVES THE RULES

THIS POSTING RECEIVED AS ANONYMOUS: The Royal Navy is proud to announce its new fleet of Type 45 destroyers. Having initially named the first two ships HMS Daring and HMS Dauntless, the Naming Committee has, after intensive pressure from Brussels, renamed them HMS...

SHOULD BABIES BE SITTING ON PENSION POTS?

For some time I’ve wondered if we give people their pensions at completely the wrong end of life? Say a man retires at 65 and is lucky enough to survive until 85 years old, he’ll be drawing a pension for two decades. Currently the Government would like to pay him £140...

DO THE CHINESE GIVETH OR TAKETH AWAY?

I researched a lot about China when I wrote DEADWATER DEEP, set around the handover of Hong Kong to the Chinese government in the late 1990s. Even then it was clear that the West was beginning to forget that the country is still a very authoritarian Communist state....