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Court Guinness
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Retired Businessman, Technologist, strategist, deaf, disabled, now blogs
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What Skills Can Cats Bring to Micro Private Equity! courtg9000.wordpress.com/2026/01/08/w...
What Skills Can Cats Bring to Micro Private Equity!
Private equity, particularly at the micro end of the market, is often portrayed as a world of spreadsheets, stern expressions, late-night coffees and the quiet hum of risk. It is a place where numb…
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January 8, 2026 at 4:28 PM
So Warwickshire Police DO have Theiving Police Officers! courtg9000.wordpress.com/2026/01/08/s...
So Warwickshire Police DO have Theiving Police Officers!
On my usual morning scroll through the BBC News I was drawn to this piece. Titled “C denies stealing from property after drugs raid” it describes a Warwickshire police officer who stole…
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January 8, 2026 at 11:57 AM
The Most Popular Content Of 2025 courtg9000.wordpress.com/2025/12/27/t...
The Most Popular Content Of 2025
Please click or see below for the most popular content of 2025 as voted for by you, the humble visitor. These are the blogs and content pages you clicked on the most in 2025. Thank you all.
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December 27, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Retro Road Test: 1987 Fiat X1/9 vs 1987 Toyota MR2 courtg9000.wordpress.com/2025/12/21/r...
Retro Road Test: 1987 Fiat X1/9 vs 1987 Toyota MR2
Imagine, if you will, a dusty B-road somewhere just outside Leamington Spa. You’re standing with a steaming flask, waiting for two mid-engine sports cars to come screaming around a bend in pursuit …
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December 21, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Lets Talk About PIP and Motability…. courtg9000.wordpress.com/2025/12/06/l...
Lets Talk About PIP and Motability….
For months my social feeds have been full of crap like every on PIP gets a free car from Motability. Or, a bloke in my town has a Ferrari on PIP or every person with a blue badge is on PIP and gets…
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December 6, 2025 at 4:11 PM
To What Extent Will AI Damage the UK Recruitment Industry in the Next Five Years? courtg9000.wordpress.com/2025/12/02/t...
To What Extent Will AI Damage the UK Recruitment Industry in the Next Five Years?
The United Kingdom’s recruitment industry is no stranger to disruption. Over the decades it has survived recessions, regulatory upheaval, the rise of the gig economy, the emergence of LinkedIn, and…
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December 2, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Lucy's Blog: Its My 7th Birthday!!! November 2025 courtg9000.wordpress.com/2025/11/02/l...
Lucy’s Blog: Its My 7th Birthday!!! November 2025
It’s my Birthday today! I am 7 years old! I command you all to bow and curtsy and send me Dreamies (but not anonymously!) It’s also the 7th anniversary of me living with Court. Technica…
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November 2, 2025 at 7:21 AM
The Bullying Culture in the NHS courtg9000.wordpress.com/2025/10/27/t...
The Bullying Culture in the NHS
Few institutions in Britain evoke as much affection, pride, and emotional investment as the National Health Service. The NHS has been called “the closest thing the English have to a religion,” a ph…
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October 27, 2025 at 2:31 PM
The UK Social Domestic Care Industry: Faults and Failings courtg9000.wordpress.com/2025/10/27/t...
The UK Social Domestic Care Industry: Faults and Failings
Introduction The social domestic care sector in the United Kingdom — the myriad of unpaid carers, home-care agencies, care homes, domiciliary support workers and the local authority systems that ov…
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October 27, 2025 at 8:05 AM
The next Part of my MPE Series. What Skills Can S*x Workers Bring to Micro Private Equity? courtg9000.wordpress.com/2025/10/16/w...
What Skills Can S*x Workers Bring to Micro Private Equity?
This continues my series on what skills x or y can bring to Micro Private equity, We have had recruiters, the military, teachers, the clergy and bank robbers, this lighter piece explores a surprisi…
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October 16, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Retro Road Test: Ferrari F355 vs Porsche 911 (993) – Road Test, 1997 courtg9000.wordpress.com/2025/10/16/r...
Retro Road Test: Ferrari F355 vs Porsche 911 (993) – Road Test, 1997
Two legends, one brief: build a car that makes your heart race before you’ve even turned the key. In the red corner, Italy’s prancing horse – the Ferrari F355, a mid-engined sculpture from Maranell…
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October 16, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Podcast: What Skills Can Bank Robbers Bring to Micro Private Equity? courtg9000.wordpress.com/2025/10/15/p...
Podcast: What Skills Can Bank Robbers Bring to Micro Private Equity?
My recent blog post titled “What Skills Can Bank Robbers Bring to Micro Private Equity?” is now available to listen to as a podcast on my Spotify channel and on all other podcasting cha…
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October 15, 2025 at 7:01 AM
As part of my "What Skills can xxx bring to Micro Private Equity" We have a humourous one today - bank robbers! In the past we have done soldiers, recruiters, the nhs, teachers and the clergy.
What Skills Can Bank Robbers Bring to Micro Private Equity? courtg9000.wordpress.com/2025/10/06/w...
What Skills Can Bank Robbers Bring to Micro Private Equity?
Introduction: When the Getaway Car Meets the Cashflow Forecast On the face of it, “bank robbers” and “micro private equity” seem to belong in entirely separate galaxies of human endeavour. One oper…
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October 6, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Podcast: What Skills Can the NHS Bring to Micro Private Equity? courtg9000.wordpress.com/2025/10/05/p...
Podcast: What Skills Can the NHS Bring to Micro Private Equity?
My recent blog post titled “What Skills Can the NHS Bring to Micro Private Equity?” is now available to listen to as a podcast on my Spotify channel and on all other podcasting channels…
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October 5, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Retro Road Test: Rover 600 vs Saab 900 (1995, 2.0 Litres) courtg9000.wordpress.com/2025/10/04/r...
Retro Road Test: Rover 600 vs Saab 900 (1995, 2.0 Litres)
It is 1995. Blur and Oasis are bickering over who owns Britain’s ears, “Windows 95” has taught the world to click “Start” to shut down, and half the country’s middle managers are discovering the re…
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October 4, 2025 at 7:21 AM
Open Letter To Utility Warehouse CEO courtg9000.wordpress.com/2025/09/26/o...
Open Letter To Utility Warehouse CEO
An open letter to the CEO of Utility Warehouse after having no mobile network for 5 days.
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September 26, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Road Test: Citroën XM 2.0 vs Ford Granada 2.0 (UK, 1991) courtg9000.wordpress.com/2025/09/17/r...
Road Test: Citroën XM 2.0 vs Ford Granada 2.0 (UK, 1991)
One’s a safe suit, the other’s a flying saucer. But which gets the corner office? Setting the Scene The year is 1991. Britain is between recessions, Simply Red are still on the radio, and if you’re…
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September 17, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Download: Mid September 2025 Requirements List courtg9000.wordpress.com/2025/09/15/d...
Download: Mid September 2025 Requirements List
Please click or see below if you are in single post mode for the Mid September 2025 requirements list as a downloadable PDF file.
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September 16, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Police Corruption Speech 14/09/2025 courtg9000.wordpress.com/2025/09/14/p...
Police Corruption Speech 14/09/2025
This is a speech about police corruption given by Court Guinness on 14/09/2025 Thank you all for coming. It is wonderful to see you here today.This speech will be a little longer than those I norma…
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September 16, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Retro Road Test: Mercedes-Benz C-Class vs BMW 3-Series (1996, UK Spec, 2.0 Litre) courtg9000.wordpress.com/2025/09/14/r...
Retro Road Test: Mercedes-Benz C-Class vs BMW 3-Series (1996, UK Spec, 2.0 Litre)
If the late 1990s had a battleground more hotly contested than the Oasis vs Blur chart war, it was surely the fight between the Mercedes-Benz C-Class and the BMW 3-Series. Both promised German prec…
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September 14, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Retro Road Test: Fiat 131 vs Ford Cortina (1981 UK Specs) courtg9000.wordpress.com/2025/09/13/r...
Retro Road Test: Fiat 131 vs Ford Cortina (1981 UK Specs)
If there was ever a time when Britain and Europe squared up across the family saloon battlefield, 1981 was it. On one side, the stalwart of British driveways: the Ford Cortina, still wearing its se…
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September 13, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Retro Road Test: The 1987 Ford Sierra RS Cosworth vs the 1987 BMW M3: An Anglo-German Grudge Match courtg9000.wordpress.com/2025/09/12/r...
Retro Road Test: The 1987 Ford Sierra RS Cosworth vs the 1987 BMW M3: An Anglo-German Grudge Match
When it comes to motoring rivalries, few can touch the cultural and engineering tussle that defined the late 1980s. The decade was a time of stonewashed jeans, red braces, brick-sized mobile phones…
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September 12, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Big Retro Road Test Directory September 2025 courtg9000.wordpress.com/2025/09/10/b...
Big Retro Road Test Directory September 2025
Please click or see below for the latest retro road test directory for September 2025. This version includes podcasts. Over 100 retro road tests, which one is your favourite?
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September 10, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Podcast: Retro Road Test: Suzuki Hayabusa vs Honda Fireblade (1999) courtg9000.wordpress.com/2025/09/07/p...
Podcast: Retro Road Test: Suzuki Hayabusa vs Honda Fireblade (1999)
My recent blog post titled “Retro Road Test: Suzuki Hayabusa vs Honda Fireblade (1999)” is now available to listen to as a podcast on my Spotify channel and on all other podcasting chan…
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September 7, 2025 at 9:28 AM
What Skills Can Teachers Bring to Micro Private Equity? courtg9000.wordpress.com/2025/09/03/w...
What Skills Can Teachers Bring to Micro Private Equity?
Micro private equity (MPE) is a relatively young but increasingly prominent investment model that focuses on buying, managing, and growing small businesses. These are typically firms with annual re…
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September 3, 2025 at 10:22 AM