Tim Worstall

At the ASI.
What about the costs of dealing with climate change?

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The couple’s sons, bankers Robert and Andrew, are in their 40s and are believed to earn six-figure salaries. Daughter Sarah is also in commerce.

Commerce? You can hear the echos of Lady Bracknell there. Blimey, it’s dangerously close to trade!

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If Iain honestly think that Kirkbride’s treatment will put women off going into politics he doesn’t give us much credit does he?. In fact I reckon there is a good couple of million women, with kids, out there, that right this minute are thinking ‘cheeky fucking bitch, that’ll teach you’.

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At the ASI.
On dealing with climate change.

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I’ve only ever had one proper screaming argument with an animal rights activist. That was a great night. It was at a student party. She told me she believed animal lives to be worth just as much as human lives. I told her she was the most apathetically selfish person I’d ever [...]

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This is just so great.
Read the comments.
H/T Gary.

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Today I’m setting out a plan of action to get all the changes we need delivered in just 100 days – making it possible for MPs to be sacked by constituents, abolishing the House of Lords, getting corrupt money out of politics and changing the electoral system to give everyone a voice.

What a twat.
So, elected [...]

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Can someone help out here?
Michael Brown, the bloke who donated £2.4 million to the Lib Dems.
I know he’s been convicted….but has he been caught? Or is he still on the run?
Update. OK, all done.
 

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HUGE-breasted burlesque dancer Fabia Cerra is struggling with a slipped disc ahead of her scheduled act tomorrow, The Sun can reveal. The 35-year-old mum of one, whose boobs are 42F, is having acupuncture for the crippling pain.

Bit of a shocker really.

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The number of millionaires in the UK has more than halved since 2007 as house prices, share values and bonus payments have tumbled.
About 242,000 people now have assets of more than £1 million, down from 489,000 in 2007, according to estimates from the Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR). Millionaires have seen nearly a [...]

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As a weapon against global warming, it sounds so simple and low-tech that it could not possibly work. But the idea of using millions of buckets of whitewash to avert climate catastrophe has won the backing of one of the world’s most influential scientists.
Steven Chu, the Nobel prize-winning physicist appointed by President [...]

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Umm, just a thought:

Is there not something slightly hypocritical about the DT increasing its revenue by an estimated £1 million per day in the name of public good?

Err, no dear, there ain’t. We want people to have incentives to increase the public good, to act in it.
That’s actually what we spend rather a lot of [...]

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So I am, therefore, somewhat peeved to find that, now, slightly more than every other word I write will be written for the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who will undoubtedly waste the money on computers that don’t work and other people’s duck shelters.

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Received this press release.
Anyone who would indeed like to interview Don Serrat is at liberty to do so. The phone number is at the bottom.
I. of course, have no comment.

A significant proportion of British adults are in danger of falling victim to the ‘Credit Crunch Munch’ by self-medicating with food to relieve depression and stress [...]

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OK, so a senior doctor has said that climate change is going to be as big a thing as cholera in its effects on public health.
I rather have my doubts that something which is going to happen over the next seven or eight centuries is in fact going to be something which society cannot adapt [...]

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At the ASI.
On Bill Gates plans to curb population growth.

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There are people out there who, when you add in fees and work it all out as an annual number (APR) charge hundreds of percent for short term loans.
There are those who think that such lenders should be curbed, constrained, even banned. What’s the effect of doing so?

Loan sharks are illegal money lenders who charge [...]

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Here.

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Or had forgotten it at least:

In 1983 Ms Kirkbride became a researcher for Yorkshire Television and she went on to work as a producer for BBC News and Current Affairs and then the ITN Parliamentary Unit.
She was a political correspondent for the Daily Telegraph from 1992-6 during which time her then partner Stephen Milligan, the [...]

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But:

On Friday Viscount Eccles acknowledged that the £44,000 claim was more than it cost to run the home, but said the couple were entitled to the payments as they had “forgone income” they could have made by selling the flat.

This is the concept of opportunity costs. Good luck with getting that one across [...]

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