Ian Ball – författare

Sea fishing requires a high degree of knowledge and skill and this book ensures that you can turn occasional ''luck'' into consistent success.This book will allow you to:Understand tides.Know which natural foods different fish prefer.Identify the types of seabed and coastal areas that shoals frequent.Learn to use the correct tackle, bait and techniques.This book will fully equip the reader with the ability to make expert catches from beach, rock outcrop, estuary, pier, harbour wall or boat.

The book is an autobiographical novel and opens with the dramatic and thrilling real life event, the attempted kidnapping of Princess Anne, which took place a few yards from Buckingham Palace in The Mall, London, on the 20th March 1974.

The story continues in an equally dramatic and exciting vein and details the perpetrator''s (author''s) eventful and turbulent 45 year stay in Rampton and Broadmoor criminal lunatic asylums.

It is an intriguing tale and involves an attempt to avoid assassination by the authorities by invoking the power of the subconscious mind, fantastic psychic forces and warped time.

The book is an emotive read and it will make you laugh, make you cry, shock you even, but ultimately it will leave you in wonder at the indomitability of the human spirit.

As individuals, we depend on the services that governments provide. Collectively, we look to them to tackle the big problems - from long-term climate and demographic change to short-term crises like pandemics or war.  Funding this activity, and managing the required finances sustainably, is difficult – and getting more so.

But governments don''t provide – or use – basic financial information that every business is required to maintain. They ignore the value of public assets and most liabilities. This leads to inefficiency and bad decision-making and piles up problems for the future.

Governments need to create balance sheets that properly reflect assets and liabilities, and to understand their future obligations and revenue prospects. Net Worth – both today and for the future – should be the measure of financial strength and success.

Only if this information is put at the centre of government financial decision-making can the present challenges to public finances around the world be addressed effectively, and in a way that is fair to future generations.

The good news is that there are ways to deal with these problems and make government finances more resilient and fairer to future generations.

The facts, and the solutions, are non-partisan, and so is this book. Responsible leaders of any political persuasion need to understand the issues and the tools that can enable them to deliver policy within these constraints.