Tim Worstall

Well, actually, a communist reveals his blithering idiocy: In one room, Jane and Louise ­Wilson’s film Star City, shot on location, is shown on all four walls using four projectors. It’s an all-­encompassing, smothering experience, symbolising the capitalist state’s suppression of the individual for the sake of profit. Eh? We’re comparing the Soviet Union with [...]

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I actually find myself agreeing with Gordon Brown: For let us be clear: death as an option and an entitlement, via whatever bureaucratic processes a change in the law might devise, would fundamentally change the way we think about mortality.The risk of pressures – however subtle – on the frail and the vulnerable, who may [...]

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The 35-year-old woman, held for an unspecified “violent crime”, fled on Saturday night through a tunnel she had dug with a spoon, Wim de Bruin, a prosecution spokesman, told AFP.

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In the Express. Even if the climate science is correct, and awful lot of what we’re told we must do about it isn’t.

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Or, how crooks betray themselves.

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No, no, thrice no. Some planes are merely stored at the base between deployments, but for more than 80 per cent of the 4200 aircraft that call it home, it is a cemetery of steel – 350,000 items to be called on when needed. Yes, it’s a very nice photo from Google of the aeroplane [...]

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Five of Britain’s biggest energy companies were facing mounting pressure to cut prices last night after figures from Ofgem, the industry regulator, showed the average profits they earned per household leapt 40 per cent this winter to the highest level in five years. Supplier profits rise in period of rising demand. Is there nothing those [...]

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So there’s to be an announcement of a new off the grid super duper energy generation thingie called the Bloom Box today. The Guardian’s environment correspondent seems to be a little at sea about what it actually is. A new but still unseen technology that its creator claims can be an off-grid source of cheap, [...]

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UN warns world could be swamped by electronic waste The world faces being swamped with a tidal wave of electronic waste as sales of household gadgets boom over the next decade, according to a UN report. Quite a simple reason. Electronic waste is valuable. There’s, quite literally, gold in them thar swamps. Plus all sorts [...]

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At The Register. Manufacturing ain’t shrunk. So how come everyone is saying that it has? My thanks to Simon Fawthrop who did the graph: beer is owed.

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Something I did for the ASI gets picked up by the Christian Science Monitor….

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So, new PC ‘n’ all. Everything on it should work rather than the jury rigged box I did have. So, how come I cannot have both speakers and a Skype phone working? If I have the Skype handset plugged into a USB slot then trying to play music, Youtube, whatever, plays through the phone only. [...]

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There’s been something nagging me about R. Murphy’s latest little essay for the TUC. It doesn’t seem to mention his last little essay for the TUC. Back in November he said that there should be a 0.05% tax on all interbank and CHAPS transfers. I was among those who started shouting that he’s just closed [...]

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Sometimes the centre of gravity pulls leftwards, when voters rebel at grotesque wealth side by side with shaming poverty; the rich child who cannot fail beside the poor child with no chance, greedy bankers beside hospital cleaners not earning enough to keep their family. In political economics that calls for a bigger state and better [...]

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How to change the address on your driving licence. Hey, why should ITV get all the money for telling you these things?

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What to do if your driving licence is lost or stolen:

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Read through this blog. The Spirit Level really is trash science. Sorry lefties, but it is.

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WHEN Yitta Schwartz died last month at 93, she left behind 15 children, more than 200 grandchildren and so many great- and great-great-grandchildren that, by her family’s count, she could claim perhaps 2,000 living descendants. Doin’ it right rilly.

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The greens claim to understand the dynamics of complex ecosystems better than the rest of humanity; the simplistic assumptions and unrealistic strategies with which they’ve approached the complex ecosystem of international politics don’t provide the dispassionate observer with much evidence in support of this claim. I would add that their incredibly naive understanding of that [...]

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It’s what you do to repair that ignorance that matters.

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