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The Last Unwrecked Market Town?

13th May 2025 Godfrey Bloom 2572 Comments

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…]

Politics

The Falklands War – 40 years on

2nd April 2025 Godfrey Bloom 2112 Comments

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

13th March 2025 Godfrey Bloom 2647 Comments

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

Reform

11th February 2025 Godfrey Bloom 2460 Comments

We are hearing much about reform at present but not yet as those with a traditional education would recognize it. What is a ‘Traditional Education’? Admittedly a subjective concept. I offer a crude definition, if [more…]

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A New Dark Age, Part Two

20th January 2025 Godfrey Bloom 2723 Comments

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

3rd December 2024 Godfrey Bloom 2648 Comments

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…]

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RMS Queen Mary 2

13th June 2024 Godfrey Bloom 2929 Comments

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…]

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A Scottish Odyssey

8th May 2024 Godfrey Bloom 1657 Comments

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…]

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I am a Conspiracy Analyst

22nd January 2024 Godfrey Bloom 2609 Comments

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…]

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