Tim Worstall

Here.

[Read more →]

see more

[Read more →]

Ritchie has just proved that markets cannot work: This is an argument I have made here, often. Markets can only work when there is choice. By definition that means there needs to be excess capacity. Unless there are vacant spaces in all schools there is no choice. But excess spaces are wasteful in terms of [...]

[Read more →]

Of all the many words spilt on the Greek financial crisis and the danger to the euro, some of the most repeated are that it was a mistake to go ahead with EU monetary union before there was a political union. On the whole, this is the economists’ view, which reflects a fundamental misunderstanding of [...]

[Read more →]

I rather wonder where the society went off the rails here: Dale McAlpine was charged with causing “harassment, alarm or distress” after a homosexual police community support officer (PCSO) overheard him reciting a number of “sins” referred to in the Bible, including blasphemy, drunkenness and same sex relationships. The 42-year-old Baptist, who has preached Christianity [...]

[Read more →]

The very way we measure economic ‘success’ today shows the bankruptcy of business as usual. ‘Gross Domestic Product’ measures all the economic activity in Britain – even the money spent on picking up the pieces of our unfair and unsustainable society. Well, yes. GDP measures value added. We think that picking up the pieces adds [...]

[Read more →]

Talking about how HIV isn’t solely or even mostly a gay disease now: While the panic arising from the multiple diagnoses in the 1980s and 90s among gay men helped fuel the social perception among heterosexuals that HIV was “something that happened to them, not to us”, the picture today is very different.In every year [...]

[Read more →]

At the ASI. Plugging the Spirit Level Delusion.

[Read more →]

At the ASI. Those parts of the world which have local, truly organic, farming don’t seem to do very well on it.

[Read more →]