Entries by M.R. Hall from 07/2012

We'd All Be Better Off Without the City

| Posted 07.02.2012 | UK Politics

If something looks too good to be true, it is. If someone tells you they can conjure money from thin air, they're lying. The City of London has been both too good to be true and seemingly magically producing money for several decades, and following the latest round of revelations about bankers' slavering greed, the game, I hope, is about to be up.

Time to Scrap Obscenity Laws?

| Posted 07.09.2012 | Huffington Post

'All men watch porn, scientists find', was the headline of an article late in 2009. It caught my eye because at the time I was finishing a novel, The Redeemed, which delved into the tricky area of sexual hypocrisy.