Tim Worstall

But the difficulty is in knowing which class you yourself are in…..

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I’d have more respect for the guy if he’d been caught watching donkeys taking turns to mount a life-sized papier-mâché figurine of Boutros Boutros-Ghali.

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It´s so simple. Why is everyone making such a fuss when Caroline Lucas knows exactly what we need to do to solve climate change and assuage Gaia? Yet not far away a very different kind of protest sprang up, as a flash mob of climate campers closed a street for 12 hours in order to [...]

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The musicians Billy Bragg and Robin Gibb have joined forces with the record producer Pete Waterman, accusing Google of devaluing songwriters amid a row over royalties. In the dispute, music videos have been taken down from YouTube UK because its owner,  Google, says that it cannot afford to pay a fee every time a song [...]

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In Britain, it is estimated that 80% of the 80,000 women in prostitution are foreign nationals, most of whom have been trafficked. Really? Here’s the definition of trafficking. There needs to be one from each of the three sections to qualify. So, transported for sex work is not, on its own, trafficking. There needs to [...]

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At the Guardian apparently: If London’s demonstrators have the exultation of visionaries, this is because the meaningless mantras of "change" are giving way to a cry for emancipation. They foresee a different future, in which the shuffling crowds in the mall turn their gaze from the displays that hold fast our confiscated desires and look [...]

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Chicks can count I wasn’t aware that anyone still thought that women couldn’t do mathematics…..

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It’s a tough job but someone’s got to do it. How will we know if the meeting is a success? The CEBR has an answer. "If it causes Sarkozy to flounce off in a huff," the organisation tells me, "then bring it on. There is a rule of thumb that anything international that upsets the [...]

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No, no, I know that my ideological opponents are silly, precisely becuse they are indeed my ideological opponents. If they weren’t silly, they would agree with me, right? But, erm, there are also those who are simply grossly stupid. Like Mary Honeyball MEP: We should change the law so that any MP, MEP or other [...]

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In particular, market economies have placed a high emphasis on labour productivity. Continuous improvements in technology mean that more output can be produced for any given input of labour. But crucially this also means that fewer people are needed to produce the same goods from one year to the next. Yes, really, he´s saying that [...]

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God the man´s a twat: The consequence of which has been hardly any serious discussion about economic growth and sustainability since then. Unbelievable, in retrospect, as even a fool could tell you that if you continue to grow both the number of human beings and the volume of goods and services consumed by each of [...]

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This is what we have armed police for, isn´t it? To escort those caught bang to rights to their well deserved leisure at Her Majesty´s pleasure?

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I don´t know, perhaps everyone knows this blog already. But if not, have a look. Proud? Of course I’m proud. Whose heart wouldn’t swell like a galleon’s mainsail at the thought that the city of one’s birth has been chosen, not merely as the venue for the summit meeting that will surely save the world, [...]

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Union leaders have called for further increases in the national minimum wage as they marked the 10th anniversary of the statutory rate being introduced. Dave Prentis, general secretary of Unison, will cut a special cake in the Commons to celebrate the anniversary, saying that the current £5.73 an hour rate should increase to £7.45 by [...]

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City workers waved £10 notes at G20 protesters as thousands descended on London’s financial heartland. Bugger me, things must be bad. Time was when no one in the City would admit to having less than a £50 note.    

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Gordon Brown was accused of gesture politics yesterday after intervening to reduce Whitehall severance payments by £500million and to curb senior officials’ pay. The Prime Minister announced that the current redundancy packages, which give civil servants three times their annual salary if they lose their jobs, will be abolished. …. Whitehall sources admitted that the [...]

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Sounds like an excellent idea to me: Consolidating its position at the cutting edge of new media technology, the Guardian today announces that it will become the first newspaper in the world to be published exclusively via Twitter, the sensationally popular social networking service that has transformed online communication. Yup: A mammoth project is also [...]

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In a speech at St Paul’s Cathedral, the Prime Minister drew on religious doctrine in a highly-personal address which warned that "markets need morals". No they damn well don´t. Markets are amoral, that´s their very joy. It might be true that the people interacting through the mechanism of a market need morals: but then there´s [...]

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Men really can laugh women into bed, ……, psychologists have found. Is there anyone at all out there who has in fact ever been laid who does not already know this? Male or female?

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