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The Russian Point of View

1st March 2022 Godfrey Bloom 4827 Comments

Back in the 1980s my enlightened commanding officer sponsored a few of his officers to study under the enlightened Royal Military Academy Sandhurst Professor of Soviet Studies Chris Donnelly. It was an external course which [more…]

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Your GP is simply a functionary

9th February 2022 Godfrey Bloom 4368 Comments

You were probably brought up on such medical TV programmes, depending on your age, as Dr.Kildare, Emergency Ward 10, Dr. Finlay’s Casebook or the many subsequent  programmes of a similar genre. The implication of such [more…]

Politics

War Never Works

27th January 2022 Godfrey Bloom 4312 Comments

Perhaps I should say in W S Gilbert style ‘well hardly ever’. When struggling for a theme for my graduation strategy thesis for at the Royal College of Defence Studies I felt a suitable title [more…]

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Cognitive Dissonance? Conspiracy?

13th December 2021 Godfrey Bloom 4433 Comments

As a long term number cruncher in the field of investment management & life assurance & pension mortality data I am constantly amazed how long journalists, politicians, academics & scientists  on the public payroll can [more…]

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What Happened to British Trade Unions?

15th November 2021 Godfrey Bloom 2262 Comments

As a confirmed libertarian you might expect I am hostile to the concept of trade unions. Not at all. It is very libertarian to form a group to bargain with employers for better pay & [more…]

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The Great Road Safety Con

2nd September 2021 Godfrey Bloom 3290 Comments

Fifteen years ago I wrote an aide memoire on speed cameras & their futility on road safety, I co-authored it with an old fashioned traffic cop when I was in office. Subsequently  I was asked [more…]

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Politicians – the People’s Enemy for Centuries

27th July 2021 Godfrey Bloom 2294 Comments

Most problems that blight the lives of ordinary folk are caused by politicians. In a democracy one might suggest this is counter intuitive, but democracy has mutated since its  Athenian concept so drastically it has [more…]

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Divide & Conquer

29th June 2021 Godfrey Bloom 2202 Comments

The British have punched above their weight for three hundred years, economically, militarily, socially & geo politically culminating at the end of the 19th Century with the greatest empire the world has ever seen. It [more…]

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A Whimsical Look at the Gentleman’s Club

15th June 2021 Godfrey Bloom 2068 Comments

I am & have been a London clubman most of my life. I have been accused of being a Wodehousian character over the years, I am happy with that, his characters, even the villains are [more…]

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