Culture
The Last Unwrecked Market Town?
Excuse the provocative title, I know there are a few others left but let me flesh out my view, I have been fortunate to have travelled much of the world on business which has meant [more…]
Godfrey Bloom
Politics
The Falklands War – 40 years on
It’s difficult for me to believe the Falklands War took place over forty years ago In April 1981 I was a 30 year old captain in Specialist Forces reserve, at the training school in Grantham [more…]
History
Leadership & Man Management
There seems to be a total lack today of leadership skills in industry or politics. The concept of leadership training used to be the preserve of the British public schools & ancient grammar schools. It [more…]
Politics
Communism
A New Dark Age, Part Two
A couple of years ago Going Postal were kind enough to publish My article A New Dark Age. Things were bad then & I knew they would get worse. What I didn’t know was how [more…]
17th Century
Lloyd’s of London 50 years on
I joined a prestigious insurance broker, Matthews Wrightson, straight from school back in 1967, the tag ‘& at Lloyd’s’ was always the gilt on the gingerbread for a broker. Old man Wrightson was still in [more…]
America
RMS Queen Mary 2
My US literary agent asked me to cross the pond to boost the flagging sales of my book Magic of Banking, but I seem to have developed a flying phobia of late, as I get [more…]
Hobbies
A Scottish Odyssey
The memsahib & I decided on one last Scottish tour of The Highlands, our fifth, before we run down the curtain. I have some Scottish ancestry, my grandmother’s clan was Bruce although a lowland clan [more…]
Authoritarianism
I am a Conspiracy Analyst
I think the days of conspiracy theory are long gone. The great WEF reset programmes are well under way. Yet there appears to be cognitive dissonance amongst the western middle class to accept it. I [more…]