Tim Worstall

But here’s footage of the Pan European picnic: the first of the East Germans being able to leave Hungary for Austria.

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Here.

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I date the exact moment to when one of the crowd turns to the senior border guard and says: “Don’t be stupid”. From the moment that those who can arrest, imprison, shoot, are held in contempt, not fear, then liberty has won. And from the Reichstag. And don’t forget the Hungarians. If anyone can find [...]

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At the ASI. Welcome to the new green ethical nationalism.

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A SCHOOL has suspended two teachers after claims that teenage pupils on a cultural trip to the Far East ended up watching a live sex show in Bangkok. Umm, isn’t that what Ed Balls wants?

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Britain’s claim to be a world leader in green energy investment has been called into question by an authoritative new study that will embarrass ministers as they prepare to launch an important climate change initiative tomorrow. A report from Deutsche Bank says that the UK does not have the right climate change strategy to attract [...]

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There’s some very messy thinking indeed around this idea of the Tobin Tax: Downing Street was keen to point out that the prime minister is not in the business of throwing sand in the wheels of capitalism, but his speech, with its talk of the “social contract” between finance and the people breaking down, did [...]

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Ed Miliband, the Energy and Climate Change Secretary, will give the go-ahead for a new generation of power stations and explain how new planning guidelines will speed up the time it takes for them to come into operation. Those doing the screaming will of course be exactly the same people who insist that the planning [...]

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Count yourself lucky dear. A heavily pregnant woman and her fiance have gone on the run after social workers threatened to take away their baby at birth. Kerry Robertson, 17, and Mark McDougall, 25, had been told that she was not bright enough to raise their child and that they would have to give him [...]

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Scurvy is back: However, newly released statistics show that the number of children admitted to hospital with scurvy soared by over 50 per cent in the past three years. Released following a parliamentary question, the figures show that in 2004/05 there were 61 children admitted with scurvy in England. But by 2007/08, the latest year [...]

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There’s a story all over the papers about a woman who suffered amnesia after having had sex. This isn’t entiirely unknown BTW. The headline war is won (at least so far) by the Mail: How was it for me?

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At the ASI. Yes, there really is such a thing as too much education.

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British families could be forced to pay up to £227 extra on their annual energy bills to help to fund a new generation of nuclear power stations under plans proposed by the French company expected to build most of them. EDF Energy, which wants to build four reactors in Britain at a cost of about [...]

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The common pot arrangement with the Isle of Man: Darling’s target was the agreement in which the two governments share the revenue from VAT and duties on gambling and alcohol, which in various forms and to various formulae has survived for hundreds of years. Ritchie has of course been banging on about this for years. [...]

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The de facto authorities have the support of many middle class and conservative Hondurans as well as the supreme court, congress and military. I do rather love this insistence that all the lefties have of calling the Honduran government the “de facto” government. If you’ve got both the Congress and the Supreme Court on your [...]

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Britain should give up its place on the International Monetary Fund to make way for a single European Union seat on the fund’s board, a leading economist has said. There are two very good reasons why this should not happen (and, strangely, neither of them are that the EU is the spawn of Satan). 1) [...]

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Girl ‘cried rape after living out fantasy of having sex with two strangers’ I’ve seen official figures (which of course I cannot find now) which state that some 6% of rape allegations are in fact false in hte UK (that is, I think, the UK Govt’s own estimation/figure). Around 6% of rape allegations lead to [...]

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The chief executive of the Royal Opera House writes….well, don’t bother to read it, I’ll give you a precis. We’re special, the arts, so we deserve more tax money. That’s pretty much it. No mention of the way in which the entire State arts budget is simply a subsidy from the non-metropolitan poor to the [...]

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I believe these headlines are now composed on the internet, by blokes in Australia. So this is no longer the indigenous sense of humour, but one clearly closely allied: MPs demand answers over Nutt sacking Alan Johnson, the Home Secretary, is under pressure to fully explain his decision to sack his chief drugs adviser.

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And Liberal Democrat Evan Harris said that giving up the Westminster flat which he owns and moving into rented property could actually result in a bigger bill for the taxpayer, as rents for similar properties were generally higher than monthly mortgage payments. Look laddie, well done you for owning a flat in Westminster. But you’re [...]

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