Tim Worstall

Hmm, this is the response I got to the following question: Is  a  jersey  bank  account  considered  to  be  a  UK  acc customer  message:  Additional  Information:  ’If  I  open  a  UK  paypal  account, can  I  link  that  to  a  Jersey  bank  account?’ Response: I do apologise but you may not be able to do it. [...]

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Don’t you know that this doesn’t happen? The Bush administration’s approach also needlessly targeted adult sex workers who were not trafficked and instead willingly engaged in prostitution and enjoyed decent working conditions. In The Guardian, anyone who is foreign and a sex worker has been, by definition, trafficked. Didn’t anyone tell you that?

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Erotic shame and guilt would be banished, together with socially enforced monogamy and male and female gender roles. Good luck with that Peter. Ain’t gonna happen you know?

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Women are equal to men in every way. Except when they’re not.

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Hmm. Jana Bennett, the BBC’s television chief, claimed almost £2,000 in expenses for flowers – including £100 on a congratulatory bouquet for Jonathan Ross as he considered his £18 million contract. Bennett, who earns £406,000 a year, sent Ross the flowers in May 2006 as he considered the controversial three-year deal, which she helped to [...]

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So we’re told by Clairol: Researchers discovered women feel most confident and happy with their love life and body shape shortly before they reach 30. It is also the period in their life when they enjoy the best sex – but the happiness is relatively shortlived. …. “The age of 28 has been pinpointed as [...]

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PA wire headline. Bless ‘em, just how would we find out such things without being told in ALL CAPS?

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If he’d been any more of a cliche, he’d have been removed from the first draft of his own life by an eagle-eyed editor. Juliette

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And an idiot artist who would deny them.

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Baby is UK’s youngest swine… Can’t help feeling that could have been truncated a tad better…..although of course I have known children like that.

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Providing social mobility the capitalist way: Nine out of ten of our restaurant management staff started out as hourly-paid crew members

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Look, this has all got out of hand, hasn’t it? More than 700 “controlled drinking zones” have been set up across England, giving police sweeping powers to confiscate beer and wine from anyone enjoying a quiet outdoor tipple. Local authorities are introducing the zones at a rate of 100 a year, The Times has learnt. [...]

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I’ve harped on this before but it’s worth another little run. Almost one in six children in Britain are living in households in which nobody has a job, according to a new report. The UK average for children in jobless households is 15.3 per cent, but this rises to almost a quarter in London and [...]

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It is often claimed that Britain has the best democracy that money can buy. Evidently, the monied interests have already bought it. The Conservative and Labour parties are funded by corporations and wealthy individuals. Really? Oh, gosh, I hadn’t known that. So I went and checked. A quick eyeballing says that 50% of donations to [...]

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Tim Garton Ash tells us all that Ireland should vote yes for the grandeur of the project and also for the sake of Iran. One response: I’m hoping my feisty fellow Irish will follow up the NO vote they gave last time around with “What part of NO didn’t ye understand?” Quite. No does mean [...]

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OK, so I’m experimenting on a new site. I need to see where my traffic is coming from, so obviously I need a stats package. The one on the site is pretty pants and will be for the next few months. I cannot add Sitemeter or the like to the site as a whole (and [...]

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Today is Cost of Government Day. Average taxpayers in Britain now have to work almost half the year – 176 days – to pay their share of the cost of running Gordon Brown’s administration. Every penny we have earned since January 1 has gone to feed the state leviathan. It is only from today that, [...]

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Thirty, forty years ago, this (I assume) was a reasonably common view: Commenting privately on the landmark 1973 Supreme Court ruling Roe vs Wade, which decriminalised abortion in the US, the then-president said he worried that access to a legal abortion could lead to “permissiveness” because “it breaks the family” but thought them justified in [...]

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A full description here.

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It’s an interesting claim, isn’t it? One that might slightly boggle the eyes in fact. So what is the origin of this claim? As a new report about international trade, multinationals and taxation says, the origins of the claim are a tad obscure. TJN (2009) claims that 60% of all global trade is routed through [...]

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