Tim Worstall

Detectives will pass files imminently on the Labour MPs Elliot Morley, David Chaytor and Jim Devine, and peers Baroness Uddin, Lord Hanningfield and Lord Clarke of Hampstead to the Crown Prosecution Service, Westminster sources have said. Keir Starmer, the Director of Public Prosecutions, is expected to decide whether to prosecute the politicians as early as [...]

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I’d forgotten he was a Godbotherer. And it also quite contrary to the message of Luke’s gospel. In Luke 4, starting at verse 18 Jesus says: The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to bring good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim release to the [...]

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At The Register. My thanks to those blog commenters who alerted me to the existence of the Dunning Kruger effect. That’s this month’s booze and fags paid for then.

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In these troubled times, a new service from Worstall Enterprises Inc. Ltd PLC. Today’s “Job of the Day” is as follows: I have a current blog site I need reviews of adult content posted for my affiliate programs with back links added Estimated Workload:Full-time – 30+ hrs/week average $3.57/hr Yup, you could have a full [...]

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Yes, he is, really. Our favourite retired accountant has managed to get something right. An investigation of his rise from rags to riches, however, threatens to expose a seamier side of Indian politics after Mr Koda was accused of taking as much as £390 million from public funds — a sum thought to be a [...]

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It seems to me that any woman who calls herself a postfeminist must have kept her Wonderbra and burnt her brains, as we still have a long way to go. Kathy Lette

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An education Bill to be unveiled in the Queen’s Speech on Wednesday will create a set of pupil and parent “guarantees” for the first time – outlining what families can expect from the state school system in England. D’ye know, looking through them, I can’t actually see that they’re promising to teach the to read, [...]

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So, Hillary gushes over the  Milliband minimus: In an article in American Vogue magazine in which Mr Miliband was described as “tall and dashing”, the interviewer joked about developing a crush on the 44-year-old Foreign Secretary after hearing his British accent on the telephone. “Well, if you saw him it would be a big crush. [...]

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World temperatures are on course to rise 6C by the end of the century because of global warming, a major British study has forecast. What they’ve actually said is that it might. Professor Le Quere said the situation could get worse as the world loses the ability to absorb greenhouse gases in natural “carbon sinks” [...]

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And some have the answer. Simply enjoying the life of free people in a free land. The important point being that of course Scott Burgess was always a free man, given the accident of his place of birth. But the land in which he is now free has not been, had not been, as a [...]

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Electricity shortages in a country whose sole export is energy are truly a miraculous thing. It takes a very special government to produce them. It isn’t of course an exclusively leftist idiot thing. The gross corruption in Nigeria seems to have a similar effect, Iran I believe suffers from petrol shortages. But then we would [...]

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What would have happened if….is always interesting. Yes, I too would like to know this one: I’d like to know where Russia would be today if Kerensky had hanged Lenin and Trotsky.

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Actual science about climate science! Hypothesis, design experiment to try and disprove hypothesis, wait for results. Are we absolutely certain that this bloke has chosen the right part of science to be working in? Aren’t hand waving and alarmism more usual in this sector?

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Re trafficking, sex slavery etc. His argument seems to be that the Mail published a piece saying that trafficking and sex slavery pretty much doesn’t exist. But the Mail has also published pieces that say it does. Therefore MacShane is right and there is lots of trafficking and sex slavery and no, it doesn’t matter [...]

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Ritchie has a bleat about how taxes don’t seem to be capturing much more money in developing countries. The reason is that import duties have been lowered (much the easiest tax to collect but they do horribly hamper trade), corporate taxation levels are being competed away and so the tax load has to go onto [...]

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Heatwaves that kill thousands, tropical-style storms and widespread flooding could be regular features of Britain’s climate within a generation if global warming is not checked, according to the Met Office. Now go back and do the sums again looking at how many people are killed by cold each year and who would not be killed [...]

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At the ASI. Pointing out that one of the saving graces of capitalism is that it makes things cheap.

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Re Belle du Jour and Girl with a one track mind. At CiF: Are all sex bloggers nice Jewish girls? Where were you when my mum was telling me who to date?

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Smith, chief executive of the money brokers Tullett Prebon, told the Guardian his support was based on similar factors. “I’m in favour of some form of Tobin tax. There are elements of financial services that have become over-large and have no social purpose,” he said. Smith suggested these areas might include the sale of sub-prime [...]

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