Tim Worstall

Try here or here. Great sounding author (similar to Pterry or Tom Holt) is selling his new book online, chapter by chapter. He comes very strongly recommended.

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Here: Julie Bindel, a veteran of radical feminist campaigns, remembers when such circumlocutions were unthinkable. She told me about a vigorous movement to force the police to investigate child abuse allegations in an Orthodox Jewish neighbourhood in London.  Her sisters said that it would be racist for the police to leave it to the community [...]

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The Scottish government wants to end cut-price alcohol deals in supermarkets in an attempt to tackle the country’s booze culture. The alcohol Bill is expected to set out a minimum price of 40p per unit — a controversial proposal that has drawn protests from the drinks industry. The Scottish Conservatives are opposed to minimum pricing, [...]

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Meantime, the new consensus that governments should be able to fully enforce their tax codes marks a major advance in fiscal fairness and democracy. All governments, everywhere, all the time? The Soviet Union, at the end of the 1920s, imposed profit taxes of over 100% of profits. The international community should agree to enforce such? [...]

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As far as I can work it out everything Enoch Powell thought, did or believed in is, according to Sunny, to be rejected because the man was a racist. I’m just wondering what his alleged racism has to do with any of the following: he was a staunch deflationist, or in modern terms a monetarist, [...]

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Allow me, if I may, to adpot Sunny Hundal’s form of logic for a moment: As a side-note, I love the way Mr Eugenides compares my earlier defence of Virendra Sharma over Subash Chandra Bose as the same as defending Enoch Powell. Erm yeah. One was a high-ranking British politician who warned that black and [...]

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Sorry, I just find this very amusing. And amusingly done as well: But it’s a bit rich for Veronica to be getting on her high horse. Whenever she emotes about her husband “consorting with minors” — insofar as you can register emotion with a face that has been as surgically enhanced as hers — you [...]

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…the official closure earlier this month of Britain’s only wind turbine blade manufacturing plant, Vestas, is a sharp reminder of the failure of blind reliance on free markets to solve the economic and climate change crises. The plant’s closure, with the loss of 400 jobs, was blamed on the slow pace of growth in the [...]

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Ritchie and Larry were in favour. And this point was made: Ah yes, but is Will Hutton in favour? That would seal the deal Yes, he is and the deal is sealed. Turner thinks that Britain should call for the introduction of an international transactions tax – a bit like stamp duty – on the [...]

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This Observer piece is a curious mish mash. But an Observer investigation has now uncovered disturbing evidence to suggest a link between the contamination and the region’s coal-fired power stations. It is already known that the fine fly ash produced when coal is burned contains concentrated levels of uranium and a new report published by [...]

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But herein lies Defra’s amazing error. The legislation it depends on to make this claim, regulation 244/2009, refers quite specifically to “household lamps”. So the EU has not made it illegal to “place on the market” bulbs which are not intended for household use. Defra thus has no power to ban the import or sale [...]

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When dealing with a communist or planned economy do not wait for what the communists or the planners say they are going to provide you with through their communism or planning. Take what the communists and the planners say and wipe your arse with it: you will gain more value that way.

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But in the last decade Labour has run hard up a down escalator to stop a natural pull towards inequality growing greater. If it’s so natural, why the fight against it? Bubonic plague is natural and we fight against that, sure. A mother’s love for her newborn is natural and we applaud that. Why is [...]

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Paradise turns sour for Lord Ashcroft Dean Barrow, the Prime Minister of the country, has accused Lord Ashcroft of subjecting the island to ‘new-age slavery’ Belize, eh? In the Caribbean, ain’t it? Must be an island then. Sadly for The Times, no it ain’t, it’s on the mainland. Belize, Barbados, Bahamas, Bermuda, Barbuda, it’s all [...]

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Not sure we’re going to take you all that seriously on this farming business old boy. If, as is possible, the price of oil surges during the next decade, then using nitrogen fertilisers, which are derived from oil, will become less feasible. They’re derived from natural gas actually, not oil.

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PwC compared the financial fortunes of a public sector employee who remains in civil service employment from age twenty-one to retirement at age sixty with someone born in the same year, who spends his whole working life in the private sector. The public sector worker would receive a pension of £28,900 compared to just £11,600 [...]

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You get to play guitar with Eric Clapton and he plays rhythm for the people have come to see your guitar playing.

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Yes, at it again is Mr. Murphy. Here’s Ritchie and here’s the piece he’s riffing off. In a nutshell, that tax competition between US States doesn’t lead to all that many extant businesses moving means that tax competition is bad, M’Kay? Nowhere do either of them manage to grasp the important point, that the economy [...]

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GIRLS dating online are snubbing one-night stands and looking for love and commitment, it is claimed. Seriously? You mean there might be a difference between male and female sexuality? Alert the media!

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Ritchie and Larry are both in favour. Clearly it’s insane then. We’re in a credit crunch, liquidity has dried up. Thus they decide to tax liquidity. Friggin’ genius or what?

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