Tim Worstall

Via Martin Stabe, this: Newspaper Licensing Agency to regulate web hyperlinks Eh?

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The lyrics to this are a bit odd. I have a feeling that it started out with as just an idea, the repeated line with a couple of chord structure/arpeggios behind it. But strangely (no, not for any depressing reasons in personal life) I find that this is my favourite piece of music at the [...]

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At The American. Is there a free lunch in the US health insurance system or not?

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I hope Adobe have agents in the country, because between Photoshop licenses and inflammable Israeli/US Flag salesmen it’s all the private industry the place has. I guess they nationalised the pistachio industry then.

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A NEWLY qualified bus driver is facing the sack after it emerged that she is a porn star. The babe – who is reigning Miss Nude Belgium 2009 – passed all her driving tests following a six week intensive course last month. But after she began work bus bosses spotted revealing pictures of her on [...]

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If you’re in London: Save Our Pubs & Clubs: AmendTheSmokingBan.com, with Antony Worrall Thompson at: The Buckingham Arms 62 Petty France Westminster London SW1 on Tuesday 23 June, 11.00am-12 noon. Being run by Forest.

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The scientists themselves seem (to me at least, for all that is worth) to have got this right. The newspapers, not so much. Prof Taylor said: “Taste is determined by our genetic make-up and influenced by our upbringing and experience with flavours. Just as with spoken dialects, where accent is placed on different syllables and [...]

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It revealed that a disgraced former Labour minister facing a police probe for claiming almost £17,000 for a ‘phantom mortgage’ has stumped up another £20,000. In total, Elliot Morley had repaid £37,000. He said closer scrutiny of his claims had found part of the capital on his mortgage was paid from public funds. Still, in [...]

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Yes, I know there’s a system of spent convictions (although I’ve no idea whether this one was or is) but even if this one was spent it’s a strange job to offer: A council has apologised for employing a senior social worker knowing that she had previously been found guilty of hiring a hitman to [...]

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The Democratic congressional leadership thus has a chance do something that could promote badly needed reforms, is desired by an overwhelming majority of voters and could give them a big political boost. Yes, that’s right, let’s look at an investigation into the financial world as an election booster. Not worry our pretty little minds over [...]

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I have to admit to being a bit perplexed here. Italy‘s prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, launched a desperate attempt today to fend off claims that female escorts were paid to attend parties at his official residence. It was the latest in a series of allegations regarding his private life, What’s the fuss about? Italian billionaire [...]

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Last year, Ireland rejected the Lisbon Treaty which would extend the EU’s powers. It has demanded legally-binding amendments before the treaty is put to the people again in a second referendum this autumn. Irish approval is the last major obstacle to the treaty’s enactment. But EU governments had hoped to add Irish sweeteners to the [...]

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Tesco has been criticised for displaying a book about Josef Fritzl in its Father’s Day gift section. Telegraph front page.

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This is really quite glorious. So, we’ve had the Telegraph’s exposing what people really claimed. And we’ve also now got the official information on what they were prepared to let us see they claimed. The uncensored copies of documents and receipts submitted by senior members of the Government contain crucial details which were covered up [...]

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Last time around these strikes were all about “British jobs for British workers”. Essentially, anger over EU nationals being shipped in to do jobs while UKites didn’t get them. Rightly or wrongly, that was the issue. Around 1,200 contract workers walked out of the Total plant in Lincolnshire last week after 51 employees were laid [...]

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Dialling back the political job, dialling up the freelancing. Over at TakiMag, explaining UKIP to them.

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The Spirit Level is a book about how much better every society is if only every society is more equal. It depends a great deal on international comparisons of inequity. Comparisons between different countries. In fact, it depends upon the ratings given here. Yes, I’m enough of a nerd to have followed the footnotes. And [...]

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OK, I know how difficult it is to get a piece into a newspaper. I know that the most difficult one will always be the first. But the way you do this is you phone people up, pitch ideas to them, email them, try to make sure that what you’re proposing is up their alley [...]

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If all the huge profits that BT and other companies made in the consecutive years since privatisation had been wholly reinvested in their businesses, instead of being siphoned off into huge executive fat cat bonuses and in wasted dividends to shareholders; Isn’t he a dear. Returns to capital, dividends to shareholders, they’re simply wasted. Yup, [...]

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While British voters can look forward only to the squirming of a lame-duck Prime Minister and a discredited House of Commons, America is starting one of the most important policy debates in its modern history. Barack Obama describes his promise to create a system of healthcare that would guarantee to all Americans the basic medical [...]

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