Arts
A New Dark Age
I have been struggling for a reasonable historical analogy to illustrate where the western democracies are going today. As we have clearly entered a new dark age I do not intend to hypothesise when exactly [more…]
Articles by Godfrey Bloom
America
The United States is clearly not united, nor was it ever
One of the great historical myths is the American Civil War was fought to abolish slavery. Serious historians know it was neither a civil war, nor was it fought to emancipate slaves. A civil war [more…]
Arts
Death, why are we so frightened of it?
There is one thing sure, death & taxes. We are all going to die, we all know that don’t we ? There are no exceptions. It is why we have car insurance (we might crash) [more…]
Economics
My Crypto Currency Journey, Part one
As a a professional research economist my first contact with crypto currency came with my ever increasing commitment to Austrian School economics over a decade ago. Always a free marketeer in the traditional classical liberal mode [more…]
Mathematics
Fake Data Qui Bono
My final article in my wee trilogy on data interpretation I examine who benefits from the manipulation of state data. It is usually sound policy when investigating the often bizarre antics of the state to [more…]
Mathematics
Some More Head Scratching Data
Apologies for returning to Covid-19 for examples of data oddities. But the situation coughs up, pardon the phrase, more anomalies every day. If Boris had read statistics not classics he would have spotted them. I [more…]
Mathematics
Data Interpretation, How the State & MSM Mislead You
Many years ago part of my professional exams included data interpretation, I studied further as my research role expanded to include pension fund management & mortality statistics. I particularly enjoyed distance learning with Austin University, [more…]
20th Century
Roosevelt’s Disastrous New Deal
Britain’s Keynesian press & public service broadcasters view President Roosevelt’s New Deal as something to ‘put on a pedestal’ (Guardian June27). Sadly the New Deal has gone into main stream academic & political economic archives [more…]
America
Two White Elephants
The demise of the serious defence correspondents in MSM have left the nation exposed to geo political military mistakes of epic proportions. Jonathan Beale at the BBC & Lucy Fisher at The Times are splendid [more…]