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Authoritarianism

What is the Role of Government in a Free Society

14th December 2020 Godfrey Bloom 3947 Comments

Not once have I heard this debated in recent years. Yet the view of the electorate has never been so diverse. Politicians as a genre are drawn from those of a bossy disposition. They are [more…]

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History

The End of the British Monarchy?

1st December 2020 Godfrey Bloom 4631 Comments

It grieves me deeply to have to write this piece, I am a staunch monarchist as are my forbears & extended family, I hold the Queen’s Commission as did my father & have written extensively  [more…]

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Arts

A New Dark Age

12th November 2020 Godfrey Bloom 3154 Comments

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…]

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The United States is clearly not united, nor was it ever

4th November 2020 Godfrey Bloom 5119 Comments

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…]

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Arts

Death, why are we so frightened of it?

29th October 2020 Godfrey Bloom 3433 Comments

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…]

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Economics

My Crypto Currency Journey, Part one

20th October 2020 Godfrey Bloom 4188 Comments

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…]

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Mathematics

Fake Data Qui Bono

6th August 2020 Godfrey Bloom 2055 Comments

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

30th July 2020 Godfrey Bloom 3328 Comments

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

23rd July 2020 Godfrey Bloom 3043 Comments

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…]

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