Tim Worstall

At the ASI. More or different financial regulation isn’t going to be much good if those writing the new regulations don’t know what they’re doing.

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I am all for online debates, and all for stroppy females — one of the happiest moments of the Blair years was seeing the Women’s Institute give him the bird, and the naked panic on the old fraud’s face. And this: In the grip of extreme parenthood you may, of course, care about other people’s [...]

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Iain Dale makes a point: Northern Heckler, you might have a point if more than 20 Tory Associations hadn’t selected openly gay candidates in safe and winnable seats. 8% of the Tory Parliamentary Party is likely to be gay after the next election. Now yes, I know, The Tory Party isn’t the one that bangs [...]

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But is this really “sexual discrimination“? A female investment banker is accusing Citigroup of sexual discrimination after colleagues allegedly joked about starting a sweepstake to bet how much baby weight she would gain during pregnancy. Seriously?

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Lack of houses for sale triggers mounting demand Pick the economic bones out of that statement.

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Makes sense. A similar link between educational attainment and alcohol consumption is seen among men, but the correlation is less strong. Mmm hmm. Women’s alcohol consumption can even be predicted from their scores in school tests taken when they are as as young as five. Can’t see any problem with any of this. Those bright [...]

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SOMEWHERE near the Tropic of Capricorn, a gust of warm wind blew down on the old French colonial town of Mahébourg, rushing across strange, jagged brown hills and lightly rustling green fields of sugar cane. It carried the smell of damp vegetation — a result of a typical morning sun shower — as it rippled [...]

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He’s finally noticed that it’s start up companies that create new jobs, not large established companies. Well done. He then goes on to talk about how we might encourage more start up companies. At which point he fails to even mention tax, regulation or the venture capital industry, all generally considered to be the important [...]

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Mr Farage is himself standing against the independent Speaker, himself a former Conservative Eurosceptic. This is against the convention of the UK democracy Mr Farage sometimes claims to hold dear. More importantly it means Mr Farage himself, the most newsworthy of the UKIP slate, is not taking the fight to a leading federalist MP and [...]

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At The Register. Yes, we really are being lied to and yes, there really should be a line on the upcoming ballot paper reading “Hang them all”.

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At the ASI. Online advertising might bring us the minarchist State.

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But the two pieces of anecdata I have are Anecdata: from the observation that the plural of anecdote is not data.

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BEWARE that sunshine Sir, it’s terrifyingly hot. And watch those pina coladas – they’ll blow your socks off! How shall we put this diplomatically… our embassy staff posted around the world are getting “danger money” for living in dream HOLIDAY RESORTS. The money being lavished on pampered British diplomats is costing taxpayers thousands of pounds, [...]

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Rule 34 states that if it exists there is porn of it. Beloved TV sitcom THE GOLDEN GIRLS is set for a saucy X-rated revamp. The hit show, which featured late star Bea Arthur and Betty White as aging singles, is to be parodied by porn company New Sensations. Adult stars Lisa Ann, Puma Suede, [...]

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Profit, it’s icky.

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Hutton that is. Are they intervening now, within weeks of a general election, because of their genuine concern to promote employment or because absorbing an increased payroll tax will hit their profits and personal bonuses and a Conservative government will be more congenial for their personal interests? As any fule kno the incidence of payroll [...]

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Ed Balls is shouting it from the rooftops: Labour retaliated in the escalating row over tax and spendingon Saturday by all but ruling out a rise in VAT after the general election – while insisting that a Tory government would impose one “within weeks”. In an interview with the Observer on the eve of a [...]

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The editors and presenters on Radio 4′s Today programme have been told they must interview representatives of the BNP, Ukip, the Green party, SNP and Plaid Cymru on the same show, the morning after the debates. Sources said this will leave almost no room for serious discussion of how the mainstream leaders performed. One source [...]

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Fortunate that, really. Otherwise there wouldn’t have been all that many Edwardians. Yes, this does mean that granny, great granny and great great granny most likely enjoyed getting it on. Philip Larkin was wrong you see, fucking didn’t start in 1963.

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