Tim Worstall

Blaming the crisis on individual greed or ethical lapses also fails to address its systemic character. No surprise, then, that it’s a favourite theme of market fundamentalists who find it impossible to accept that capitalism’s regular breakdowns might be in any way built into its DNA. Err, no, sorry, you’ve got this entirely the wrong [...]

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Sexual frustration plagues prison life. Who would have thought it?

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At CiF. Cost benefit analysis and the Severn Barrage.

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The Iraq war was just the first of this century’s "resource wars", in which powerful countries use force to secure valuable commodities for themselves, according to the UK government’s former chief scientific adviser. Sir David King predicted that with human population growing, natural resources dwindling and seas rising because of climate change, the squeeze on [...]

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On Geert Wilders He began working for a health insurance company before shifting into politics as a speechwriter for a liberal party. Some say his experience of being mugged as a city councillor in Utrecht in the late 1990s may have made him more Right-wing. I thought this liberal mugged by reality thing was a [...]

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Now, the RSS’s Cow Protection Department has invented a new urine-based soft drink it hopes will promote its health-giving properties to a wider market. "We refer to gau ark (cow urine) as gau jal (cow water) as it has immense potential to cure various diseases. We have developed a soft drink formula with gau jal [...]

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Bacon-stuffed grilled cheese sandwich as bun top Bacon Cheese Four-ounce beef patty Bacon-stuffed grilled cheese sandwich as bun bottom If that’s not enough, they also make a larger version…..

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The takeaway has told customers in the mixed-race area of Hall Green, Birmingham, that if they want ham or pork on their pizza they will have to go elsewhere. Chris Yates, 29, a hospital worker living in Moseley, Birmingham, said he was told he couldn’t have a ‘Meteor’ pizza, topped with pepperoni, sausage, meatballs, ground [...]

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….this is a surprise. The Labour lords at the centre of the peers for hire scandal will not be investigated for criminal offences, Scotland Yard has announced. Although I don’t think that is going to stop Jack Straw from going ahead with his plans to throw two Tory peers out. Funny that really….

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A very naughty thing to do of course. Terrible: The pop singer is being treated with intravenous antibiotics to fight the superbug, which could cause permanent damage. Jackson, 50, was photographed with inflamed skin on his face and hands as he visited the Beverly Hills clinic where he is being treated. He is reported to [...]

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more animals

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LONDON, February 11 /PRNewswire/ — Blink, Europe’s first air taxi service, has launched Blink Focus, a new and innovative frequent flyer programme. Blink Focus rewards customers by allowing them to enjoy free trips on Blink. Frequent flier programme on private jets….now that pushes a few buttons, doesn’t it?

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TOGETHER GOVERNMENT AND BUSINES CAN KEEP BRITAIN WORKING – CORRECTED VERSION More correction still needed apparently….

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£5.4million Turner masterpiece lost to the British nation. I certainly do feel poorer today. No, seriously, I awoke just past midnight with a searing hole in my soul as I realised that the export ban on a Turner painting had been lifted. A piece of canvas was going to go to the US and in [...]

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Or, as Richard would put it, secrecy jurisdictions. The Swiss have laws that make it a crime for a Swiss bank employee to divulge bank details. This is not a wicked scheme to get the world’s dirty money but dates from 1934, when German Jews fleeing the Nazis wanted to get their money out as [...]

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Polly fires off a broadside at those who are so disgusting as to actually point out that the average public sector worker earns more per hour than the average private sector worker (or even per week). Except it’s not true. The facts are accurate, but the context makes it a statistical cheat. Their figures are [...]

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Keep the shit and the drinking water separate, and you’ve gone most of the way from an average life expectancy of 35 to one of 75. And how true.

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There’s only 29 of them left? I’d suggest a captive breeding programme, but, well, you can see the hurdles you’d have to overcome….

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Goes off in praise of capitalism. But, at the risk of being thought one horn short of a helmet, can I beg to differ? You can no more immolate capitalism than you can pronounce the last rites over the lifeless corpse of laughter. Capitalism, like laughter, is the expression of an ineradicable human instinct. My [...]

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