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....

BACK IN THE SADDLE

Computers now switched and everything seems to be up and running. Thanks for staying with me and hopefully you’ve been following on Twitter: TerenceStrong@AuthorSASplus…when it lets me in or forgets my Password. Yes, it forgets my password, not the other...

ALL IN TODAY AT THE LYING TOAD

KK was back at The Lying Toad today. He still looks like the untamed man of rock he once was, although now he’s a plumber. He moved on but his cheerful, worn looks and hair didn’t. KK, or K to his friends, played ukelale in the 70s group Wild Child. But,...

ACTOR PETER WICKHAM TO READ ‘SOME UNHOLY WAR’

ISIS Audio Books have snapped up the rights for Some Unholy War in full length CD and audio-tape formats. Actor Peter Wickham has been selected to read the story. He has read several of my previous audio books and is a master of his craft. That craft was tested to its...