Tim Worstall

Doing heavy household chores could slash a woman’s risk of developing breast cancer by a third, experts have found.

That’s my excuse sorted then.

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At times during this half hour of mawkish misery you longed for the wit and wisdom of a debate featuring Sarah Palin.

That good, eh?

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The rail regulator cancelled 19 schemes to remove pinch points on overcrowded lines yesterday after the Government ordered a cut in public funding for the railways.
Network Rail had proposed the schemes to increase capacity and to reduce delays on routes that have experienced record growth in passenger numbers. The Government has imposed a strict cap [...]

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There is something ominous about Westfield making its first "anchor" store Debenhams - the group devoured by private equity greed, asset-stripped, and pushed back on the market, denuded and loaded with debt.

WTF?

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Andy Burnham, the Culture Secretary, has suggested churches with low attendance could be turned into gyms

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Speccie.
Political corruption and EU fruit and veg.
 

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At The Register.
The New Scientist and their misunderstanding of economics.

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Take a pig living outdoors with space to run around. It is fed additive-free foods (spare fruit from the greengrocers, malted barley from the local brewery, etc) and is free to forage in the earth. It is just as happy as an organic pig, it lives just as long and eats just as well. However, [...]

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So when the bureaucrats lose a court case they start to argue that they shouldn’t have to pay the costs.

Mr Dillon added: "Nice has been ordered to pay 60 per cent of the court cost incurred by Eisai who embarked on the litigation.
"Eisai Ltd is an international company which generated a net income of 598 [...]

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The world’s greatest pub crawl, 14,000 pubs and counting, and look what happens:

He said there have been up to twenty drinkers in their team but most have fallen by the wayside after getting married.

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Ummm….no, I don’t think so.

Gerald Toben, 64, is accused by the German authorities of offences ‘of an anti-Semitic and/or revisionist nature’ Photo: PA

Uhn uhn. That’s David Irving in that photo. The Telegraph (or maybe it’s PA) seem to be having problems with photos of Toben. At one point they had one of Chris Huhne [...]

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Gordon Brown’s claims that a national ID card scheme would help prevent terrorist attacks are "absolute bunkum" according to a senior Government security adviser. Harvey Mattinson, a consultant at the information technology arm of GCHQ, said that the only real value of identity cards would be to help state bodies share information about people.

Nothing we [...]

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Wow, so drugs are legal in France eh?

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Speccie.
Drink crazed loons and daylight savings time.

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As us financial sophisticate know, the method of accounting used by oil companies means that when prices are rising then so do their profits.
However, when prices fall so do those profits.
So, come the announcement of next quarter’s results and the drop in profits, possibly even reports of a loss, will all those currently shouting about [...]

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A father of three who underwent a routine vasectomy at his local GP surgery was left fighting for his life in hospital after suffering gangrene.

Eeek!

It wasn’t until his stitches burst that he was rushed to hospital and doctors realised how serious his condition was.

Sob, sob, ouch!
 

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Fast-food outlets should be barred from opening near schools, Ed Balls will say today.

Do bugger off man.

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I really do like this:

I think big ideas are overrated. My family have been chased all over the world by people with big ideas. We’ve fought in their wars, starved in their prison camps, died in their gas chambers, fled their conquering armies, sewn on their yellow stars and surrendered our property to their armed [...]

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The boss of the US’s biggest carmaker, General Motors, is personally lobbying the Bush administration for aid of up to $10bn (£6.3bn) to prop up a merger with Chrysler.
Political and economic pressure is mounting on the US treasury to step in to avert the possibility of a bankruptcy of one of Detroit’s leading carmakers, which [...]

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Absolutely crazed loons:

It also shows that 27 countries are "importing" more than half the water they consume - in the form of water used to produce goods from wheat to cotton - including the UK, Switzerland, Austria, Norway and the Netherlands.

They seriously seem to think that there’s something wrong with trade. That, by growing wheat [...]

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