Tim Worstall

While I do not have a boyfriend, I do have a friend who is homosexual and I once asked him “Do you ever think about having sex with me because you are gay?” to which he replied “Do you ever think about having sex with Rosie O’Donnell because you are straight? Same thing.”

[Read more →]

Even now, I fail to see how killing patients through bureaucratic stupidity is somehow going to stop a newly resurgent Luftwaffe dropping a bomb on a maternity wing in Dartford.

[Read more →]

Robbed by the banks WE own: As interest rates are held at 0.5% for the 18th month in a row, overdraft rates soar to 19% at taxpayer-funded RBS and NatWest Does the heart good to see managers of our assets making them sweat to earn us a profit.

[Read more →]

Who knew?

[Read more →]

However, up to 1,000 people including maids, fruit pickers and factory workers are made to work as slaves in the UK, according to human rights organisations. If there’s a thousand slaves in total then there ain’t gonna be tens of thousands of sex slaves, is there?

[Read more →]

“I mean, it is absolutely bizarre that the people who can’t tell us what the ******* weather is next Tuesday can predict with absolute precision what the ******* global temperatures will be in 100 years’ time. It’s horse ****.” The response is pretty good too: In response, Greenpeace spokeswoman Joss Garman said: “Personally, I wouldn’t [...]

[Read more →]

So, I see this mentioned: The Swedish clothing brand ACNE is launching a new collection aimed at transgender consumers And I think…tee hee, those silly Swedish, not getting what acne means in English. Oh, wait, maybe they’re being like super ironic? So, I go looking: Founded in Stockholm in 1996 by four creatives, Acne’s ambition [...]

[Read more →]

So, there was a report about a leaked report about the Robin Hood Tax idea of a financial transactions tax. At which point our favourite retired accountant said: All of which says three things: 1) Those who have argued on this site and elsewhere that those of us who have argued for these taxes don’t [...]

[Read more →]

I also think that Williams is right when she says that the educational qualifications of prostitutes are irrelevant. Quite. As I understand the phenomenon the whole point is to have the sex without the wooing, the conversation or the Godawful possibility that they might hang around afterwards. That many of us men are quite interested [...]

[Read more →]

Via: That it’s not a modern musical style helps for sure. Change the lyrics a bit and it could have come out of Motown or Stax (even Philly) 40 years ago. Or Terence Trent D’Arby 20 years ago perhaps without changing the lyrics. The lyrics are here. Most fun.

[Read more →]

The fact that single, childless women earn more than their male counterparts due to having greater educational qualifications demonstrates the reality that labor markets are efficient and that wages are based on the value an employee creates for the employer.  The fact that married women with children earn less than married men with children or single, childless women doesn’t necessarily prove gender discrimination.  It [...]

[Read more →]

A leading budget airline may have unfairly charged thousands of passengers because its measuring devices for hand luggage were too small. Customers of bmibaby were routinely asked at departure gates to put their hand luggage in a metal cage to ensure it met size restrictions. Many failed the test and had to put the bags [...]

[Read more →]

Bel Mooney: By sickeningly depressing contrast, just a few decades later, we have Juicy Jeni and Helen Wood, who have taken that precious inheritance and wiped their hookers’ stilettos all over it. They are not the only ones, of course. Less than a year ago I wrote about the famous call girl known as Belle [...]

[Read more →]

Why does Stephen Hawking think science has overtaken philosophy? Erm, because philosophers are still arguing about “what is truth?” as they have been for some 3,000 years that we know of while scientists have actually been able to find out the odd thing over the same time period? You know, ‘leccie, evolution, gravity, trivial things [...]

[Read more →]

Meat is a great and good source of the B vitamins. Taking daily supplements of B vitamins may delay the onset of Alzheimer’s disease, scientists have claimed. The discovery that people in the early stages of failing memory can retain more of their mental faculties for longer if they take the tablets regularly could lead [...]

[Read more →]

Interesting number here: British businesses spend around £20billion per annum not on paying taxes, but merely on complying with taxation law. The yield from corporation tax is around £45 billion (2008/9 figures from IFS) meaning that the cost of collection is nearly 50% of the revenue raised. But wait! we can go further as well [...]

[Read more →]

BP oil spill: the City’s non-reaction to the BP report One hundred and ninety three pages and months of work, but barely a flicker in the Square Mile. The share price barely moved ( a little over 1%). So, markets are efficient then? Robert Talbut, chief investment officer at Royal London Asset Management, said the [...]

[Read more →]

Fidel Castro has said Cuba’s economic model no longer works, according to reports. 51 years late to be precise…..

[Read more →]

Harry Enfield went to school with Bong Bong Marcos.

[Read more →]

Lloyds TSB: Safe, solvent, straighthforward Retail bank, until it was persuaded to buy HBoS by Economic Jonah, Gordon Brown. HBoS (Halifax, Bank of Scotland): mainly retail, Large Mortgage Business, which went belly-up and took Lloyds TSB with it too. Royal Bank of Scotland, very small investment bank, Largest UK retail operation, big Corporate loan book, [...]

[Read more →]