Tim Worstall

IT IS The Good Life dream that turned sour. Just months after landing a job as the “food champion” of the London mayor Boris Johnson, Rosie Boycott has had to wind up her organic farm after it failed to make a profit. The demise of the smallholding, set over eight acres in Somerset, left Boycott, [...]

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FOR the female half of the population, it may bring a satisfied smile. Scientists have found that evolution is driving women to become ever more beautiful, while men remain as aesthetically unappealing as their caveman ancestors. This will bring a smile to mens’ faces, surely? We get to enjoy greater female pulchritude while they have [...]

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Just as it gets its act together, it is to be disbanded and its powers handed to what City minister Paul Myners calls the “bookish” Bank of England, whose record of both spotting asset price bubbles and handling bank crises is dire. Lessee.…..the Bank of England was responsible for handling banking crises for the entire [...]

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Well, of course, how you take this will depend upon your pre-existent view of Michael Moore: “The Michael Moore movie that I saw was full of truth,” Makes me think that this whistleblower is full of c**p actually. Of the industry’s income: A lot of that money also goes into contributions to politicians of both [...]

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Churches should try harder to make bald and overweight people feel welcome, according to new guidance that is being issued to clergy. A Church of England book published this week says they should be regarded as worshippers with “special needs” alongside the blind, the deaf, breast-feeding mothers, very short people and readers of tabloid newspapers. [...]

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In a comment upon an earlier post Richard Murphy tells me this: Tim Where’s the evidence of concensus we can grow 11 times, contain CO2 and do this whilst running out of oil? There is none – it’s your fantasy. Well Richard, that’s not actually what I said. What I said was: For the scientific [...]

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The Independent on Jonathan Porritt: Educated at Eton and Oxford, Porritt is in theory doubly-titled – he is “Hon” as the son of a life peer, and also Sir Jonathon Porritt, Bart, having inherited the baronetcy which was also awarded to his father. But he makes little of any of this and is a very [...]

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Post headline: Five Thousand of my Blogreaders Are Cokeheads Well that explains the rather hyperactive comments section then…..

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Two in three days. A woman who falsely accused her ex-boyfriend of rape when he broke off their relationship was jailed yesterday for her ‘vile lies’. Incidence of false rape claims seems to be 60 times higher than previously estimated…..if one every 6 months were to be taken as our previous estimate.

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Torygirl: why get all intellectual? Just read Naomi Klein. Sigh.

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Tim Worstall posted three blogs on me in an afternoon – nice of him – but all utterly unintelligible playing solely to his thuggish following This is the reality of the Right – challenge the Daily Mail and you get threatened – by the right wing thuggery. You and I folks, we’re thugs. So sayeth [...]

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In general, an individual cannot receive tax relief on interest payments whether the debt is for buying a house, car, fridge, cooker or anything else. In contrast, the tax concessions to corporations have been maintained regardless of whether the debt is for buying productive assets, or speculating in markets, paying exorbitant dividends, setting up operations [...]

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Caroline Lucas says: But we must replace this with targeted investment in the energy efficiency and renewable energy infrastructure we so urgently need to enable us to make a swift transition to a steady-state, zero carbon economy. “steady state economy”. No growth. Ever. The current level of material wealth enjoyed is all that we Brits [...]

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Austrian economics in The Guardian? I assume it’s there because none of the editorial team know enough economics to realise that it flies in the very face of all Keyensian orthodoxy…..

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Headline to Guardian leader: Economy: Down, down, deeper and down So, err, where does that come from? Ahhhh, yes….. The Guardian, hip and with it as ever. Cultural references to Status Quo circa 1975. Well, that was when the UK was at its most equal ever, wasn’t it?

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Clarkson, who previously had to apologise to Gordon Brown in February after calling him “a one-eyed Scottish idiot”, described him as a “cunt” in not-for-broadcast comments during the recording of this week’s Top Gear programme on Wednesday night. Isn’t the BBC supposed to be a reflection of the myriad opinions and communities of Britain? Clarkson [...]

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I dunno, dunno: It was courageous of Selina Scott to sue Five for age discrimination last year: they asked her to cover Natasha Kaplinsky’s maternity leave and then picked a younger model. Scott won, hurrah for her, and this week she delivered an angry diatribe about the “ageist BBC”, which had given Arlene Phillips the [...]

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At the ASI. How Hugo Chavez has managed to turn a coffee exporter into a country where it’s tough to find a cup of coffee.

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…….it is quite clear that Enlightenment rational man is the falsehood Eh?

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So of course the cultural elite are left wing. This will always be the case. It’s the natural order.

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