Tim Worstall

I’m sure there’s something bananaie, strawberryie, well, some sort of fruity, about this.

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Third, whilst I note Teather is a chartered accountant I also note he has no background in economics, statistics or any other relevant subject. Richard Murphy.

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Well, as you’d expect from a Nobel Laureate his analysis of the basic economics is good. And as you’d expect from an economist his understanding of the climate science is less so. Personally (for whatever trivial value my opinion has) I’d give the first half of that long piece an A*. And then I’d argue [...]

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The world’s first apprentice Spitfire mechanic in 40 years is Gareth Rutt, 20,of Biggleswade.

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The Lib Dems are getting shouted at for accepting donations from companies that don’t pay much tax: Official documents show that companies controlled by reclusive Ipswich Town FC owner Marcus Evans have donated more than £530,000 since 2006. However, records from Companies House show that UK-based companies of the Marcus Evans group paid just £7,757 [...]

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Researchers believe that social hierarchy holds the key to what Britons find funny, Given that most of everything the English do revolves around class and social hierarchy this isn’t all that much of a surprise.

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Jesus certainly picked a bad time of year to die, why do all his main life events appear to coincide with bank holidays?

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Second, the total balance of trade deficit went from (0.9 billion to 0.2 billion). In other words, the United States was losing less money because of Smoot-Hawley. It was in aggregate better off. (From an organisation called “Citizens for Immigration Control” via email) Imports are going shopping. Exports are simply the shit that we do [...]

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UK Green Steps Up Fight Against Illegal Logging In Euro-Parliament Why? Are you certain there is no dead wood in the Parliament which should be cut?

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The idea, entrenched in the City, that bankers somehow create wealth as a result of their zero sum games when this is far from the truth Lordy almighty. Just try living in a society that doesn’t have either a functioning banking system nor a market based method of capital allocation. Then you’ll see whether bankers [...]

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Let’s have only one tax. What a great idea! So if all taxes, including VAT, form part of the price of the stuff we buy, why do we bother to charge and collect them separately? What would happen if we were to lump everything together, phase out all taxes and just charge higher VAT? Well, [...]

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He really does annoy. Like Jean-Marie Le Pen, who first coined the word “federaste” to attack supporters of the European Union in France, the right in Europe lurches from nationalist populism, via homophobia, to hate of Muslims and unacceptable language about Jews; it indulges in a constant rant against the EU and Brussels to create [...]

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Women who exercise during pregnancy produce ‘lighter babies’ Well, yes, OK. Dr Paul Hofman, from the University of Auckland in New Zealand, said: ”Our findings show that regular aerobic exercise alters the maternal environment in some way that has an impact on nutrient stimulation of fetal growth, resulting in a reduction in offspring birth weight. [...]

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New laws acomin‘: If you are found to be in possession of a garden gate that doesn’t open easily, you will be heavily fined. If your letterbox is not immediately apparent to anyone approaching the house you will be evicted and your house handed over to a family who will undertake to fit a visible [...]

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“If you take money out of the economy now, in a year when you’re beginning to see recovery, that is taking a great risk…” That’s Alistair Darling on the Today program talking about the Tories’ plan to curtail the coming national insurance rise. As Fraser Nelson rightly observes, not raising taxes is not taking money [...]

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As we all know, the New York Times is the US paper of record. They have fact checkers for everything. They source and confirm absolutely all of even the trivial points made. Quite seriously I’ve had a phone call from an NYT reporter to confirm something I’d written as a blog post. “Did you really [...]

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If I might put it in anachronistic terms, Jesus lived practically his entire life in the ‘private sector’: so far as we are aware, his only significant ‘public sector’ involvement was in the day or so before his execution.

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Here. MyPolice is an online feedback tool that enables the public and the police to have a conversation, and help people in local communities identify weaknesses in their policy service, and work with local forces to fix them. Most interestingly, all this data is then fed back to the police to help them improve. In [...]

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But Roger Harding, head of policy for Shelter England, insists that empty homes are only a part of the solution to the country’s housing shortage: “You have to remember that we have about 5 million people who are waiting for council house accommodation. That is the issue we need to address.” I’m willing to believe [...]

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