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Godfrey Bloom

17th Century

Lloyd’s of London 50 years on

3rd December 2024 Godfrey Bloom 0

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

13th June 2024 Godfrey Bloom 0

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

8th May 2024 Godfrey Bloom 0

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

22nd January 2024 Godfrey Bloom 0

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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Christmas, How Did Yours Go?

2nd January 2024 Godfrey Bloom 0

I saw a piece to camera from Sonia Poulton before Christmas who felt Hollywood was less than helpful in its portrayal of a Christmas as a sugary confection of unreasonable expectation. True of course because [more…]

Economics

75 Years of Decay

27th November 2023 Godfrey Bloom 0

As I enter my seventy fifth year I ponder the most depressing decay of my country not dissimilar to the fall of the Roman Empire. Indeed like that empire it is totally self inflicted. The [more…]

Authoritarianism

World Economic Forum Exposed

1st August 2023 Godfrey Bloom 0

The WEF is basically an organization run by Malthusian ideologues. Its goal is therefore is massive global population reduction, a terrifying concept when the oligarchs making policy control the World Health Organization in turn mandated [more…]

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“Inflation it is not an act of God”

14th June 2023 Going Postal 0

Over the last couple of years, the UK has been increasingly in the news – for all the wrong reasons. The cost of living crisis, in particular, has been monopolizing headlines at home and abroad. [more…]

Economics

How Can We Escape?

8th June 2023 Godfrey Bloom 0

I spent over forty years in the City of London very largely specializing in pension & trust fund management. The latter decade in tax effective investment. We live in a kleptocracy which seems to have [more…]

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