Tim Worstall

At the ASI. No, the brain drain doesn’t harm poor countries….and we shouldn’t worry about it even if it did.

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I don’t normally blog on press releases but….. On August 22, 2010 women across the USA will once again march for the right to go topless in public anywhere a man can go topless in public.  August 22 is National Go-Topless Day.  Cities hosting marches this year inclue New York City, Chicago, Miami Beach, Austin, [...]

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The cats have started to cuddle up to each other again as they sleep……

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Bang goes any chance of work over the next few days…..

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For years, literally decades, the British vigorously pursued a strategy of criminalisation, and strove to brand all Republican opponents of British rule, especially members of Sinn Féin or the Provisional IRA, as “criminals”. Pesky Brits, insisting that those who shoot, bomb, main, kneecap, are “criminals”. Even the argument that they were all freedom fighters not [...]

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Some of the most beautiful areas of Britain could be sold off and wildlife and countryside protection measures cut to the bone to meet expected 40% cuts in the budget of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, it emerged. It doesn’t matter a damn who owns these reserves. There will still be the [...]

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Wilkinson was shocked by what he believes is part of a worrying trend in political discourse, also happening in the US, where a few people, often attached to right wing institutes, have set themselves up as professional wreckers of ideas. It’s really an amazing thing to complain about, isn’t it? That intellectuals* should not examine [...]

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At the ASI: Socialism’s dead, get over it. while Cuba has its praise singers no, “Sure, they’ve no freedom and nothing to eat but they do have free health care!”, is not taken as a valid argument in adult company.

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Always worrying when someone uses Bubba as an information source: In 2006, using figures calculated by campaigning accountant Richard Murphy, the BBC’s Money Programme reported that Philip Green and his family had saved themselves nearly £300m the previous year living partly in Monaco, where residents do not have to pay income tax. For it’s sorta [...]

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Russia will begin to load fuel into the reactor at Iran’s Bushehr nuclear power station next week, marking the start of its launch after years of delay, Moscow said today. I remember sitting in an office in Moscow and a very excited bureaucrat telling us eagerly about how they’d just landed this huge contract with [...]

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Then in 2008, Patricia Lykos, a former judge and police officer, was elected district attorney, and one of her first acts was to reverse the office’s longstanding reluctance to admit mistakes. She assigned two assistant district attorneys and an investigator to do nothing but comb through about 185 cases involving requests for DNA tests as [...]

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German prosecutors, as first reported by The Wall Street Journal in April, are looking into the possibility that H-P executives paid about €8 million ($10.9 million) in bribes to win a €35 million contract under which the U.S. company sold computer gear, through a German subsidiary, to the office of the prosecutor general of the [...]

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I am aware there are those who argue that Jersey and Guernsey don’t want businesses that exploit Low Value Consignment Relief (LVCR) – the VAT rule that allows goods costing less than £18 to be imported into the UK VAT free. I don’t believe them. Take this Jersey web site as indication of true attitudes: [...]

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No, we can’t have permanent BST. EU rules mate.

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You wouldn’t have called Gladstone and Disraeli Bill and Ben. So how come total strangers call me Tom? Because social mores have changed Tom.

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World feeling the heat as 17 countries experience record temperatures. 9 % of the UN’s 192 countries have been reporting record temperatures in recent weeks. This can be many things but proof of global warming isn’t one of them. Please note, yes, I am a warmenist, my point is only that this particular fact is [...]

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Andrew Gilligan on Jack Straw.

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Never the twain shall meet apparently: He also argues that the safety record in Chinese factories is much preferable to the “‘Elf N Safety” in British factories. We are talking about a system where 600,000 people are worked to death every year Oh aye? China says 83,196 people lost their lives in work-related incidents last [...]

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From an economist at SOAS: One that shed considerable doubt on the ability of a radically decentralised system of economic co-ordination to assess risk and promote general welfare. SOAS as a “school” really seems not to like markets very much. But let’s take the counter to this idea, say that there should be a centralised [...]

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Must be, this cannot have been written for any other reason than to get an entry in Pseud’s Corner: Square buildings conform to the masculine ideas of division and sides. Over this last age the masculine qualities have been edified while those of the feminine were rubbished. Hence we have a dominance of cell-like cubes [...]

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