Tim Worstall

The modern day civil society that is. So what will we get? Bankers talking to bankers and saying stakeholders want what bankers want. I despair. The EU / EC should: a) Allocate seats to stakeholder groups b) Fund them c) Make clear they can issue minority reports if need be d) Provide them with technical [...]

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This is an entirely reasonable piece on Christianity, Teh Gays, acceptance of and so on. Your intro to it from the Op/Ed page is entirely stupid. Every bit of Christian teaching can be summed up in three words: God is love. That is the simple truth that teaches tolerance of same-sex unions. If you’re incapable [...]

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Or perhaps, not five years behind the Times, but 5 years behind Google. Zeitgeist is a visual record of what people are currently finding interesting on guardian.co.uk at the moment. While other bits of the site are curated by editors (like the front page, or individual sections) or metadata (like blogs, which display in reverse-chronological [...]

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On how bureaucracies just keep on operating. I’ve heard (but cannot prove) that the US Post Office was delivering across the lines until 1863…..

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Well, it’s not quite Dover, just the port, but sure, flog it off: The Port of Dover is being recommended by Government advisers for sale to the French authorities. It’s not like they’re going to try and pack it up and take it home now, is it? The value of a port lies in, umm, [...]

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At the ASI. Thomas Friedman’s purpose on earth seems to be to get the wrong end of the stick.

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Yet another defence review…..and there are those over on the left telling us that the two carriers must be scrapped. Hmm. There’s a reason you have two: big ships like that are such complex beasts that you’ve nearly always got one in dock somewhere, being repaired, upgraded, outfitted. You’d also rather like to make sure [...]

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Two people were confirmed dead and dozens injured on Sunday when a gas power plant exploded in Middletown, Connecticut, it has been reported. And also a point to be made about the safety of different forms of generation. This one accident in a gas fired plant has killed more than the entire US civil nuclear [...]

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The Papists are having a competition for manifesto policies. Most fun to drop into the comments on each one and discuss the logic, sense or even connection with reality of them.

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And I know that not all his clients will be balancing their books – many of them will borrow, for years at a time. Eh? Sorry? Any company, individual or organisation that has borrowings has not balanced their books? Are we absolutely certain that this man worked as an accountant?

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At the ASI. More on the stupidity of politicians.

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So says Suzanne Moore. Oddly, they’re going to do just this you know. Usually called a “General Election”.

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DOCTORS have uncovered the first evidence that fathers of test-tube babies may be passing on their infertility to their sons. Genetically based problem passed on through genes. That’ll have the evolutionists perplexed, eh?

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And writing the editorials too: There are many excellent reasons to effect the transition to a low-carbon economy: cleaner air, economic independence from oil-exporting states, cheaper energy…. Jebus, if low carbon energy were in fact cheaper then we wouldn’t be having a problem, would we? We could do away with cap and trade, carbon taxes, [...]

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Which is why David Cameron and George Osborne‘s attempt to revive a better Conservative tradition – liberal conservatism or red Toryism – is such a difficult and perilous project. They have to persuade their comrades that fairness matters; there is such a thing as society; market fundamentalism has screwed up; and there is no option [...]

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Look, I’m no defender of Ashcroft but really, The Observer should be better than this: Ashcroft promised to become a permanent resident of the UK as a condition of his ennoblement in 2000. A year earlier, he had been rejected as a member of the Lords by the political honours scrutiny committee. But successive Conservative [...]

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It is impossible to understand why their lordships think that such a consideration should take precedence over diminishing a clear and present danger to national security. Well, you know, actually, umm, it’s not impossible to understand. The judges on the Supreme Court understand something which all too many seem to have forgotten. There is a [...]

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At the ASI. Even if we do agree there are problems that need to be solved that’s no guarantee that the political process will solve them….given the politicians we have.

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Lenin (he of the Tomb) is getting all excited about something called the “Right to Work” campaign. I’m just wondering if he knows where the phrase actually comes from? “Right to Work” laws in the US are the ones which restrict union power. It’s shorthand for those States which insist that there can be no [...]

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