Tim Worstall

“Many psychologists, many psychiatrists have demonstrated there exists no relationship between celibacy and paedophilia,” Bertone told a Santiago news conference during a visit to Chile. “But many others have demonstrated, and have told me recently, that there is a link between homosexuality and paedophilia. This is true, this is the problem,” he said. Attraction to [...]

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Bob Herbert: The evidence is stark. More than 44 percent of unemployed Americans have been out of work for six months or longer, the highest rate since World War II. Perhaps more chilling is a new analysis by the Pew Economic Policy Group that found that nearly a quarter of the nation’s 15 million unemployed [...]

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Well, not quite in full, rather all we need to know. Behind Iceland’s superficially booming financial markets in the mid noughties lay a financial system shot through with corruption and regulatory negligence that led inexorably to a dramatic economic meltdown 18 months ago, according to a damning truth commission report. The 2,300-page forensic investigation, presented [...]

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Oh, well done Marina Hyde, well done! Given it was played shortly before his entrance, Gordon Brown’s unofficial theme can be assumed to be I’m A Soul Man, famously sung by his late cousin James. Straining rather for a joke there but in her defence I suppose we could point out that she wasn’t born [...]

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Go here. Follow instructions. Then vote.

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A long piece at the ASI. Laying out the reasons why the Hills Report on wealth inequality is so horribly, terribly, wrong. It measures wealth inequality before all the corrective measures we take about such inequality. What we want to know of course is how much inequality do we have after such measures: only then [...]

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We’re encouraging people to write to any of the 68 signatories of the Telegraph letter, to ask them to take into account the wider effects of the Conservative Chancellor’s proposals. See they’ve accepted the game is up already.

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GORDON BROWN IS THE PARTY LEADER WOMEN LEAST WANT TO SNOG

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Germaine Greer has revealed that she had a fling with the film director Federico Fellini. She was a goer you know. No, really, she wasn’t always an old bag. Most important that we all remember this. Germaine could have (and possibly did have) any man she wanted. Next week, revelations that she ‘ad a Beatle [...]

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Labour will force foreign workers to speak English That’s not actually legal. You’re not allowed to test people from other EU countries in that manner. If they’ve got the correct professional qualifications the free movement of labour means you cannot impose further tests. All public sector workers will be expected to speak English And that’s [...]

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Sales of organic food, drink and other products slumped by 12.9% in the UK last year as producers battled against a downturn in consumer demand and the worst trading climate for 20 years, new figures reveal today. Cost-conscious shoppers turned their backs most decisively on organic fruit, vegetables, meat and bread, where the price differential [...]

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I go to the Cherry Tree pub to wait for Griffin, who is giving a press conference. The drinkers come out to talk. They are all ex-Labour, now BNP. “It’s housing, schools, hospitals and jobs, not colour,” says one man. “I believed in Old Labour but not New Labour. They have failed in this borough.” [...]

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The programme will cover a three-year period. The euro area Member States are ready to contribute for their part up to 30 billion euros in the first year to cover financing needs in a joint programme to be designed with and cofinanced by the IMF. Financial support for the following years will be decided upon [...]

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A vast bureaucracy of apparatchiks, under-motivated and under-managed, wanders about as if in a daze, presiding over an orgy of form-filling and administering prods and restraints to the rest of us, while in thrall to a mind-numbing political correctness. Quite.

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As the paper states: ‘benefits in kind (such as health, education, transport and housing) more than double the average post-tax income of the bottom 20 percent of households’. Income inequality (or perhaps consumption inequality is better) is thus vastly overstated.

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Yes, Timmy likes this. I never really did think they would go with “hang them all”.

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Even though they call themselves the “Working Group on Climate Change and Development” it’s the same old drivel. Can’t have continuing economic growth because of environmental limits, yada, yada, yada. Strangely, the person who comes closest to the truth is Herman Daly in the intro: Climate change, important as it is, is nevertheless a symptom [...]

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Via Ritchie we get the Fair Pay Network. Which says, as the heart of its campaign, the following: An employee earning the new NMW rate, working full time will earn around £11,500 per annum, and yet anti-poverty bodies such as The Joseph Rowntree Foundation state that a single person living in council Housing needs £13,400 [...]

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This week’s column is one new story imposed upon the rest of last week’s. So has he finally run out of things to say?

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Fun that The Times (where Papa was for many years editor) has quite such a go at Jacob Rees Mogg. They also mention Annunziata….. I should declare perhaps a mild interest. There are many Rees Moggs and two of them were at school with me. Having said that no, I’ve not met the two standing. [...]

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