Tim Worstall

I am, it appears, number one for the search "greenpeace idiots" on Google.
Thank you, thank you, richly deserved I think you’ll agree and yes, you may kiss my ring.
 

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What is the connection between this absolutely stunning piece of political propaganda*:
 

And this pop classic:

??? *No, not an endorsement of the point being made, nor a rejection of it. But you’ve got to admit it’s a bloody good way to make the point.

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At the Business.
The English are best! and climate change isn’t a market failure Sir Nick!

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It should be me of course.

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So, err, what was this programme then?

It must have been in the mid seventies, 74-77 ish. There was a kid’s drama, it must have been BBC – we were a beeb house, not an ITV house, oh, yes, there was a big difference – and I think it was a series.
It was set in industrial [...]

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Media Watch is having a little competition as to who can insult religion the best. So far the winner is their own introduction to the competition:

The religion in question which has so exercised the slow-witted mullahs of Sudan is known as “Islam”, a 7th century personality cult invented by an illiterate camel trader with a [...]

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1) Which major industrial country has not endorsed the Kyoto Treaty?
2) Which major industrial country reduced total emissions last year?
Answers here.
Complete the sentence: "The Kyoto Treaty is vital because….."

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At the ASI. On developments in solar power.

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Lord McAlpine:

As for state funding of political parties, however you frame this the effect will be like pouring petrol in a living room fireplace where the fire is burning merrily. For in politics, the more money that parties have, the more money those parties will need.

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Jeff Randall:

Gordon Brown’s premiership has become the Trabant of British politics: we had to wait 10 years for delivery, then it fell apart after less than six months.

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You what?

Tests proved the powder-like substance to be 98.6 per cent uranium 235, a highly fissile isotope, indicating that it was highly processed and intended for use in a bomb.

That’s a bit of a surprise. I wasn’t aware that anyone ever processed material up to that isotopic purity. I would guess (and it is very [...]

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Rumours are now rife that Mr Leslie, still only 35, is now understood to harbour ambitions to return to the Common.

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News that a close relative of Homo Sapiens had harems, rather like the modern gorilla:

An ancient human relative may have had a love life much like the modern gorilla, with single dominant males keeping “harems” of females, research has suggested.
A study of 35 fossilised specimens of Paranthropus robustus – a hominin that lived between 1.5 [...]

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It’s rather unsporting to have ago at her today really. She does get one thing right:

Because without public trust, no one believes a word politicians say.

Quite. Her solution is that Labour should campaign for PR and state funding for political parties (she really does have a tin ear for the public if she thinks that [...]

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As far as I can work through the logic of Naomi Klein’s piece it is this.
The markets are investing more in security companies than in climate change abatement. This is terrible and shows how the markets have to be regulated by government.
That last, of couse, being the conclusion of any Naomi Klein piece.
The bit she [...]

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Steve Trent, executive director of this organisation, insists that the use of child labour in growing cotton is such an abuse that we must all refuse to buy cotton grown in such a manner. There should be a labelling system allowing us to identify such as well.

By purchasing cotton clothing that fails to carry a [...]

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The Kremlin is planning to rig the results of Russia’s parliamentary elections on Sunday…

Really? Well I never. What will they find to put into newspapers next?

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Just out, walking the dogs.
There’s a vulture sitting on the fence of a house about 50 metres down the road.
Big buggers, ain’t they?
Think it’s one of these, a Griffon Vulture.

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At the Business.
Nuclear smuggling and Fortress Europe.

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Sigh. Well meaning liberal do gooder type screams at business for being complete bastards and oppressing the workers. Not, as you might have noted, all that unusual an occurence in this day and age. Via Mark Thoma:

The migrant farm workers who harvest tomatoes in South Florida have one of the nation’s most backbreaking [...]

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