Tim Worstall

I’m thinking about a little business to occupy me over the summer. And I need to dig into the collective knowledge of you web savvy and development types for a moment. The basic idea is to sell prescription specs online. Yes, OK, I know many people already do this but there is a wrinkle, a [...]

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OK, it’s nice to see this in the Mail, a counterblast to the idiots who won’t have their children immunised. However, it would have read just a tad better if they’d got someone who understood the science a little to proof read it for them (d’ye think Ben Goldacre would go slumming at the Mail?). [...]

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From PA. The case of the four women involved in the High Court action, who are all nationals of Moldova and now live in the UK, was that they were victims of an unlawful conspiracy to traffic them into the country from Moldova "for the purposes of sexual exploitation and prostitution". Mr Justice Treacy said [...]

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Anne Pettifor is very much on the left of our society. new economics foundation and all that, gets Ritchie Babbie excited with her views, that sort of stuff. Today the exposure of the political system and the international game of cricket to this corruption is laid bare. Allen Stanford it turns out is accused by [...]

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I can’t remember the last time an elected politician said something this utterly fatuous, and that’s saying quite a lot.

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Q – Would you describe Sir Allen Stanford as a sophisticated fraudster? A – No, he invested some of his money with Bernie Madoff and then tried to deny having done so. Sir Allen should have claimed that he invested all his money with Bernie Madoff and that he himself was the innocent victim of [...]

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So they’ve a leader in praise of Beatrice Webb. In the comments: Are you talking about this Beatrice Webb? The one who described her nephew’s (Malcolm Muggeridge) reports on the great famine as being "base lies"? Surely not? … She was also a supporter of Stalin. http://www.mltranslations.org/Russia/webb1.htm …. This "saintly" woman and partner in crime, [...]

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Sir Allen: Last night, US television channels reported that Stanford had attempted to leave the country by private jet from Houston to Antigua, but the plane leasing company refused his credit card.

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Monty Don, the former BBC Gardener’s World presenter, said the UK could run out of food "within weeks" because the country is so dependent on imports and it was essential for the country to grow more of our own food. He urged businesses around the country to follow the lead of the National Trust: "If [...]

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It’s a fair question I feel…. Passengers currently pay 50 per cent of the cost of improving and operating the rail network but the Government wants to extend the "user pays" principal, which would see them pay 75 per cent, and the taxpayer 25 per cent, in five years time. Yes, there are indeed some [...]

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There were also reports last night that five players in the victorious Stanford Super Series final side – Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Ramnaresh Sarwan, Kieron Pollard, Sylvester Joseph and Dave Mohammed – had reinvested their personal winnings of $1m each with Stanford, and now risk losing it all.

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Kevin Tripp, an ME sufferer who had a five-year-old daughter, was punched to the floor as he stood by his trolley at a Sainsbury’s store in south London last June. He collapsed to the ground headfirst and died of brain injuries. Jurors were told that the 57-year-old had been mistaken for another shopper, who had [...]

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Meanwhile Alfie Patten, the 13 year-old star of the latest freak show, revealed he was taking a break from thrice-nightly sexual intercourse after discovering masturbation. He added: "I don’t want to miss out on an important part of my childhood."

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Dunlap said he was getting ready to file a lawsuit as early as Tuesday, possibly accusing Stanford of breach of contract. Breach of contract?

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Texas billionaire Allen Stanford and top aides at his investment group failed to respond to recent subpoenas seeking their testimony on what federal investigators now call a "massive" fraud, court papers said on Tuesday. The Securities and Exchange Commission said it had issued subpoenas to Stanford, aide James Davis and O.Y. Goswick, a board member [...]

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Home Secretary Jacqui Smith is to face a parliamentary "sleaze" investigation over her second home allowance, it was disclosed today. A spokesman for the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards, John Lyon, said he had now accepted a complaint against Ms Smith. From the Press Association.

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I’ve adopted Hutton as my go to writer for analysis on the state of the world economy and what should be done about it. Hutton, you will remember, is the man who wrote that we needed a Gordon Mac to get us out of our problems….three weeks before Fannie Mae anbd Freddie Mac went bust. [...]

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Hitler built teh Autobahn; Bill Clinton was a Roads Scholar Works as proof for me.

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It’s an idea: that if we pay politicians well then they won’t steal. So how does that work out then? Members of parliament are laughing all the way to the bank this week as they collect their first gross salary of Sh 750,000 after working for just a day. The Parliamentary Service Commission (PSC) is [...]

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it’s worth taking note: per pound spent, independent shops employ more people than the giant chains No, that’s not a sign of his ignorance. It’s true. The ignorance comes from the fact that he uses this as an argument in favour of independent shops instead of giant chains. Jobs are a cost, not a benefit. [...]

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