Tim Worstall

Half of prison service staff personally experience sexually explicit language and sexual jokes and stories every week while at work, according to an internal survey of workers. Female staff are more likely to experience unwanted persistent attention, bullying related to gender and inappropriate or unwanted touching. What did anyone expect what with their being surrounded [...]

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Surely these people have something better to do with their time than this? An animal rights group has urged US President Barack Obama to try taking a more humane attitude the next time he is pestered by a fly after he was shown swatting one dead. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals said it [...]

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James Chapman in the Daily Mail: Front runner John Bercow – a left-wing Labour MP hated by his own party leadership – is under growing pressure to demonstrate significant support from Tory colleagues. I think we’ll count that as a fail, shall we? John Simon Bercow (born 19 January 1963, in Edgware, London) is a [...]

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Is that when you’ve got another mineral that you need foreign capital and technology to extract, there’s no one willing to offer you the technology and capital you need: “But there is a problem. Bolivia’s socialist government has a habit of clashing with foreign multinationals in other sectors and has not clinched a deal – [...]

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Mr Marshall argued that the European directive showed signs of political motivation, particularly on the part of the French. He said this stance was “damaging to our industry, damaging to our country and damaging to Europe”. Of course the politicians want to cut off Anglo Saxon capitalism at the knees. It’s not just good enough [...]

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Telegraph.co.uk can disclose that Miss Ussher told the tax authorities that her Burnley home was her “principal residence” for a single month in 2007, enabling her to avoid capital gains tax. According to a letter from her accountants, Miss Ussher had previously told HM Revenue & Customs that a house in south London was her [...]

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Steal from the best. Dan Hannan adapts PJ O’Rourke.

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105 years ago today, James Joyce lost his virginity. Eventually, he wrote a very funny book about the day. May all our days be as productive. Angry Bear.

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At the Guardian. There’s no such thing as a gender pay gap, just a mother’s pay gap, and we’re already compensating for that. Comments and vituperation over there please…..

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The Prime Minister of Finland speaks out: The overall tax rate will have to rise as well over the longer term. In some areas that can be done without much consultation between the countries. For example, property taxes or inheritance taxes can largely be determined at the national level without adverse economic consequences. But such [...]

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….and a requirement that issuers and originators retain a financial interest in securitised loans. These people are insane. They seem not to understand why the banks actually went bust.

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I’m sorry, you were right, all along: President Barack Obama, annoyed by a fly during a television interview at the White House, took matters into his own hands by killing it.* And he then rolled his long Green Lizard tongue back in again, munching happily. * From PA feed.

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No, we don’t have a right to anonymity. Not sure why anyone would think that we did. Still, the secret is to do what I have done. Create an online character under a completely fictitious name (come on, I mean, really, “Worstall”, you think anyone is called that in real life?) and make sure to [...]

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I’ve usually got nothing but contempt for your ideas but here you’ve at last said something sensible: Second, the grip of the consultants and GPs has to be loosened. The NHS has 1.2 million staff. Thousands upon thousands have good and often simple ideas about how to improve the service; help patients and cut costs [...]

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The BBC is wonderful! The licence fee makes it so! Mwah! Jean is … the official historian of the BBC

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So, a group of private companies (ie, not taxpayers are to be gouged in hte making of this) get together and suggest spending €400 billion to get solar power from the deserts of North Africa to Europe. It’s long been one of the green ideas floating around to decarbon electricty generation in Europe. Whether it’s [...]

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The South African task force is reported to be considering freezing or confiscating Mr Tannenbaum’s assets. He is reported to have lured hundreds of investors with the promise of monthly returns of 11.5pc linked to pharmaceutical imports in an alleged fraud reported to be worth as much as $1.2bn. Investors were told that Frankel Chemicals [...]

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Speaking to MPs in the House of Commons, Mr Bradshaw, the Culture Secretary, confirmed that the small levy would establish an independent national fund to ensure “maximum next generation broadband coverage”. The report proposed a 50p-a-month levy on all fixed telephone lines to help bring next-generation broadband to the whole country. Hypothecated taxes are always [...]

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Owes the taxpayer £538,290. And my, isn’t he struggling hard to not have to pay it back.

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GORDON Brown is in line to become the EU’s first president, it emerged last night. He probably would do absolutely anything to stop Blair getting the job.

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