Tim Worstall

As such it contravenes section 1b of the TJN / AABA Code of Conduct for Taxation which says:

So Richard Murphy uses a document written by Richard Murphy as a reference to tell us that Setanta have been very naughty boys.
Nothing like having impartial sources, eh?

[Read more →]

He has got a sense of humour?

[Read more →]

Seriously?

Yesterday the Israeli announced that the IDF and Shin Bet had found “6.5 tons of potassium nitrate hidden in sacks that were disguised as aid from the European Union”.

Potassium nitrate? Saltpetre? People are making explosives out of black gunpowder?
Sheesh, you’d think they would have caught up with the IRA by now and be using ammonium [...]

[Read more →]

Some truth here Dizzy:

Harriet Harman – A bit like thrush which Canestan cream cannot get rid of.

And gues who?

Mark Thomas wannabe without the brains or wit.

[Read more →]

Only a fifth of doctors believe that a national electronic system for storing patients’ records will be secure, a poll for The Times has shown.
More than three quarters are either “not confident” that data will be safe or “very worried” that data will leak once the £20 billion National Programme for IT (NPfIT) is running. [...]

[Read more →]

Odd but encouraging to find a real liberal in The Guardian:

Here is the book you ought to read to fortify you for the further assault on our freedoms and civil liberties that lies ahead: Towards the Light by the philosopher AC Grayling. It is subtitled The Story of the Struggles for Liberty & Rights that [...]

[Read more →]

And what about children? If the government is sincere about protecting those most vulnerable from second hand smoke, then why isn’t a ban on smoking in all households containing children, at least being considered?
Ultimately, the ban enacted on July 1 should not be the end of the legislative process but the beginning. The months and [...]

[Read more →]

At the ASI. Why shouldn’t the rich pay for global warming?

[Read more →]

Really:

Home buyers in the South are paying more than three times as much stamp duty as those in the North of the country, new figures show.

An ad valorem tax is higher where prices are higher? Slap me with a wet kipper. You’ll be saying that income tax revenues are higher in the South, where wages [...]

[Read more →]

The number of alcohol-related hospital admissions has increased by almost a third in just two years as 24-hour drinking laws and the greater availability of cheap alcohol lead to increased consumption.

So people are doing as they wish, perhaps to their own detriment.

Based on data from the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy, these admissions [...]

[Read more →]

Throughout history, regulation has tended to gain favor on the heels of free enterprise run amok.

Well, that’s Naomi Klein’s thesis fucked then, isn’t it?

[Read more →]

Despite all the craziness of 2007, there were actually a few high points. … Madonna didn’t make a movie in 2007.

[Read more →]

Was told that her concept for a book was ‘too witty’ for the average British female and being ‘able to write’ is a mass market liability

[Read more →]

Great piece.

[Read more →]

I hadn’t realised that the idiot Dennis MacShane was involved with this idea to criminalise the purchase of sex.

They say there is no other way of dealing with this scale of misery, but before another law is rushed on to the statute book, with everyone involved feeling the warm glow of a ready solution, it [...]

[Read more →]

There’s something slightly unfortunate about this:

The world now understands that climate change is not just an environmental problem. It’s also a security, economic, political and migration problem. What are we going to do when people begin fighting not about politics, but about water? What will we do when people start arriving on our shores fleeing [...]

[Read more →]

Ahahaha.
Hoist and petard comes to mind.

The high-profile demonstration, intended to highlight the force’s anger over its recent below-inflation, 1.9 per cent pay rise, is threatening to become a major political flashpoint in the new year. The police claim their preferred route for their march is set to be banned under archaic ’sessional orders’, laws drawn [...]

[Read more →]

Sex education initiatives are failing to control the spiralling teenage pregnancy crisis, ministers have admitted for the first time.

Sounds bad, eh? So, how much has the pregnancy rate risen?

The Government committed itself in 1999 to halving the teenage pregnancy rate among 16- and 17-year-olds by 2010, compared with 1998 figures.
However, by 2005 – the last [...]

[Read more →]

At the ASI. More book blogging.

[Read more →]

At the ASI. About a good book.

[Read more →]