Tim Worstall

Certainly a bee in his bonnet.
And all those who support the secrecy these places provide to facilitate this abuse should be ashamed of themselves. By offering your excuses you will, undoubtedly, be causing hardship beyond imagination and death as well.
Which is why I campaign for the abolition of secrecy jurisdictions – the BVI and Cayman [...]

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Or perhaps they’re just in a different century.
Traditional Lamaze breathing classes are out,
Eh?
Aren’t “Lamaze breathing classes” still regarded as outre, on the edge and extremely hip over here?
How in $%&$ did they get to be “traditional” over there?

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Here.
Who ever thought it would make a quarter century millenium, eh?

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At the ASI.
If you actually wanted to reduce inequality, wouldn’t you use the tax and benefit systems which actually do reduce inequality?

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And they are right. Cameron is extremely bright and it is admirable that he – unlike many of his background – has eschewed money-making for politics.
We’d all far rather the bright went off and did something useful like make money than that they’d take it upon themselves to tell us how we should live our [...]

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This strikes me as really rather odd:
Recent weeks and months have shown country after country raising their ambitions on controlling emissions. It is now clear that if countries move together and they find ways to extend their action we could set the world on a responsible path. We can now see that it is possible to [...]

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One in five HIV sufferers in Africa was infected by medical staff using dirty needles and clinical equipment, new research has found.

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William Rees Mogg muses over the electoral battleground of Somerset.
In the Somerset marginals a vote for UKIP will help to elect Lib Dem candidates to Westminster.
Which means that the UKIP vote will determine whether Jacob and or Annunziata Rees Mogg make it into the next parliament. They’re two of the tribe that I didn’t go [...]

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1. It is legal;
2. It is polite;
3. It includes an argument that adds value to readers;
4. It appears factually accurate;
5. That the commentator is genuine;
6. It is not promoting an opinion usually associated with the far right political fringes (for these purposes the UK Independence [...]

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From:
Meglena Kuneva is European Commissioner for Consumer Affairs
We get this:
Indeed, non-sustainable products should be phased out gradually. Research has shown that many consumers believe that environmentally non-friendly products should not even be on sale.
So when does the legal ban on non-green products get handed down from Brussels?

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President of the socialist, Anglophone Vanua’aku Pati party, he was elected Prime Minister in September 2008.
OK, so we’ve established that he’s a socialist.
The Prime Minister of the tiny Pacific nation of Vanuatu has been left red-faced and jobless because he forgot to hand in an absence note before heading to the Commonwealth [...]

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GIVING women a lengthy period of maternity leave could mean they miss out on highflying jobs, a new study has revealed.
The findings from three continents show that the more family-friendly a country tries to be, the less its women succeed in the workplace.
I’ve been pointing this out to people for years.
British women fare better on [...]

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This weekend it emerged that the unit has thrown away much of the data. Tucked away on its website is this statement: “Data storage availability in the 1980s meant that we were not able to keep the multiple sources for some sites … We, therefore, do not hold the original raw data [...]

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I actually agree with James Hansen:
Governments must place a uniform rising price on carbon, collected at the fossil fuel source – the mine or port of entry. The fee should be given to the public in toto, as a uniform dividend, payroll tax deduction or both.
Of course, I think he’s hysterical over how much the [...]

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Joanne Goody-Orris and her partner Maurice Benton, both 79, from Somerset, began sending packages to serving soldiers two and a half years ago.
Since then they have sent over 6,000 parcels containing everything from treats such as chocolate and crisps to necessities such as wet wipes and thick [...]

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Police spend £800,000 a year on music rights
Police forces are paying hundreds of thousands of pounds a year to allow officers to listen to music at their desks, in canteens and even in cell blocks.
Well, yes, I suppose it is news that police forces obey the law these days……

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At the ASI.
More on Murphy.

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Wise experts should stay well away, or recognise that the world of politics is an untidy and unclean necessity.
That should of course read:
People should stay well away, or recognise that the world of politics is an untidy and unclean necessity.
Politics is simply a vile necessity: a way of getting the bins emptied and society’s scut [...]

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Can’t quite put my finger on it though…..
A Conservative Government would install London Mayor Boris Johnson as the first elected police commissioner
Umm, isn’t there something of a difference between “someone who has been elected becoming police commissioner” and “someone elected to be police commissioner”?
And it what way does the former differ from the old system [...]

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Satellites to monitor cuontries for climate change under Gordon Brown plan
Telegraph front page.

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