Tim Worstall

Well, of course, certain people were not going to take this finding lying down: In the most comprehensive study ever to be carried out into the nutritional content of organic food compared to ordinary fare, scientists found no significant difference in vitamins and minerals. Me, I am absolutely certain that at least some organic* meat [...]

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I suspect the best thing you could do here, regarding your emotions, is get yourself a good, hard, dirty shag but let’s be honest, all the time you look like some piss take from Little Britain, you actually have less chance of a casual sexual encounter than Gordon ‘Country Fucker’ Brown, and funnily enough, he’s [...]

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Lordy, but the man does get his economics wrong. OK, long post here about pensions. The greatest iniquity of which is that most money “invested” in the stock market doesn’t in fact buy new shares, it buys “second hand” ones. Which of course is terrible, just a casino for the spivs to take a rake [...]

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That’s the image the Express used in a story about a pair of Swedish tourists who went to Carpi, an industrial town, instead of Capri, the island. But I do have to say that that is most definitely not Capri in that picture. I don’t know if it is Carpi, never having been there, but [...]

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Guardian leader about African farming. At no point at all do they discuss or even mention property rights. I believe it is still true that all land in Ethiopia is State owned. Until that changes you’re not going to see much else changing.

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The Labour Party candidate for Streatham at the next election is calling for electoral reform. He’s defending a majority (or rather, will be) of around 7,500. Clearly, worried that in the current times this won’t be a large enough cushion to get him elected.

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Lorne Stockman, the author of the report, said: “A peak in oil demand was barely discussed even a year ago, but now it is a viable idea. When it happens, I wouldn’t want to guess, but it will happen sooner than we thought. There has been lots of talk about a supply peak, but it [...]

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China‘s three biggest power firms produced more greenhouse gas emissions last year than the whole of Britain, according to a Greenpeace report published today. Which makes our spending however many hundreds of billions to reduce our emissions a tad moot really, doesn’t it?

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As no one else seems to be doing it, I shall. Defending lending at 500pc APR is like defending the legalisation of heroin Despite delivering a 3.5pc rise in profits, Tuesday’s results from Provident Financial failed to impress either the market or children’s charity Barnardo’s. It is not often that a company manages to alienate [...]

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Oh dear, there’s that code word again: The £1 billion fund is open to local councils, charities and other voluntary organisations. The bodies bid for the public money from the Government in order to create “socially useful jobs”. As has been pointed out before, the word “socially” modifies to mean “not”, as in “not useful [...]

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City firms contributed £32.5bn to the tax coffers in the year to March 31, 2009, it emerged today – less than half the £67.8bn they brought in two years earlier. The amount generated this year is still enough to pay for the entire public security budget – including police, fire brigade, law courts and prisons [...]

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New blog by an excellent researcher, Mark Croucher. Asking the important question, is the use of Tamiflu possibly more dangerous than the flu itself?

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Killing baby seals is bad M’Kay? By closing the door on fur and other seal products, the EU has taken meaningful action to reduce the scale of commercial seal killing and prove to governments that barbaric annual displays of animal cruelty will no longer be tolerated. In an aside to this, it’s also worth noting [...]

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Michael Gove: Now I read that good old BSM, the dullest of all driving schools, and one on which I relied, is ditching the dowdy old Vauxhall, for, of all cars, the Fiat 500. That’s like throwing over Polly Toynbee for La Cicciolina. I dunno: at least La Cicciolina got elected to something before she [...]

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New estimate based on the forthcoming upturn in solar activity and El Niño southern oscillation cycles is expected to silence global warming sceptics After years and years of stating that solar activity* is not the determinant of climate change as various non-believers have been saying, now solar activity is going to be used to prove [...]

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• The Supreme Court, by a 15-0 vote, found that Mr. Zelaya had acted illegally by proceeding with an unconstitutional “referendum,” and it ordered the Armed Forces to arrest him. The military executed the arrest order of the Supreme Court because it was the appropriate agency to do so under Honduran law. • Eight of the 15 [...]

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Profits have more than halved at BP as the company continues to suffer from the weak oil price and falling demand for energy. Little question for all those screaming that we should impose a windfall tax on the oil companies. Now that profits are falling, should we subsidise them?

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Despite these yawning imbalances, they say, “financial wizards” managed to convince themselves and the world’s politicians that they had found clever ways to spread risk throughout financial markets – Well, yes, they certainly did spread the risk, this is true. Not enough though….

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