Tim Worstall

Well, no, they’re not. But to hear the unions peeps screaming about it you’d think they were: Karen Jennings, head of health at the public sector Unison, said: “What is this Government thinking of, is nothing safe? The blood service is world class and doesn’t need interfering with. “It epitomises how successfully volunteers and the [...]

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The attractive-looking vegetable, which has become a staple in many chattering class households, has suffered due to the long, wet and cold winter. Britain’s biggest farmer of the vegetable said “100 per cent” of her winter crop had been wiped out and that there would be a severe shortage in supermarkets over the next few [...]

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Savour, for a moment, this line. In responding I will ignore his pomposity No, wait, just roll that around and savour it. Now, watch Ritchie entirely destroy the UKUncut position on both Phillip Green and Vodafone. Then let’s move on to his argument  that Philip Green, or anyone else,  may use a tax haven structure [...]

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What can one say, except it’s only going to get worse? It will until an alternative is adopted. That alternative is possible. None of this unemployment is necessary. And those young people need not have blighted hopes. That’s what’s so depressing about all this. He’s absolutely right you know, this needn’t happen. Us bastard capitalist [...]

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We know that we don’t want a ‘market state’. This turns our public services into businesses, uses relentless surveillance to secure compliance, destroys the planet for corporate growth and widens inequality. However, tripolar society is emerging as an alternative, where civil society, government and business push back the market, and work in partnership for the [...]

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Yes, we like subs, the people who write headlines.

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Diane Abbott tells us all about the young woman who died while having a gluteoplasty (? getting a bigger booty?). Sadly we live in an era when too many young women are brainwashed into believing that, artificially pumping up some aspect of their body, is the road to fame and fortune. And they will risk [...]

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Via: Boral Roofing says each year, one of its concrete tile roofs on a typical 2,000-square-foot house can break down the same amount of nitrogen oxides as a car’s engine typically produces during 10,800 miles of driving. When sunlight hits the roof, it activates titanium dioxide, which breaks down the nitrogen oxides in the air [...]

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Housing supply has been directed and managed by national government since the war. Stop them doing that and we’ll have solved the problem, won’t we?

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Huhne, who has been a prime mover behind the plan for higher targets, hit back angrily, telling the Guardian: “The short-termist view of sticking to 20% doesn’t cut the mustard. Moving to 30% would give our businesses a head-start in new green industries and get us off the oil hook quicker, insulating us from oil [...]

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There is a spirit of the law, we know it, it is widely acknowledged, it is interpreted, appropriately, by the courts, and people have a duty to try to comply with it. Exactly! There are two positions regarding tax. There is obeying the law upon tax and there is not obeying the law upon tax. [...]

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This really looks rather good actually: Tax Advisors Without Borders. Poor countries often do not know how to run a tax system. And yet recently retired peeps from the rich world often will know how to do so. Put the two together and we might have a winner here. Do note two very important points: [...]

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Ricthie says this is a very bad thing, taxing economic activity where economic activity actually occurs: From my perspective I’m pleased to see that she supports my concern about the introduction of territorial taxation, No, no, that’s terrible. What we really should be doing is, as Ritchie keeps telling us, taxing in this manner: Seeking [...]

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What is needed is policy and a body which will support films that can secure European co-funding. Not Hollywood sell-outs but commercially successful British films with their own distinctive audience. If they’re commercially successful then they won’t need taxpayer subsidy then, will they? Numpties.

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The government has rolled out national contraceptive campaigns, but despite this there are still up to 500,000 clandestine abortions in every year. In a country that has one of the highest levels of healthcare and education in Latin America – and where 98% of women give birth in hospital – the link between the ban [...]

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It’s an idea that seems to require bogus figures to shore it up – he repeated that “grants to councils will only go back to 2007 levels. There was a good level of libraries then”, suggesting councils are deliberately exaggerating the cuts. Here’s the cheat: public spending is returning to the same proportion of GDP [...]

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Never the twain shall meet, eh? You don’t like the idea? Then take a look at naked short selling. In this case sellers not only don’t own the assets they’re selling, they haven’t even borrowed them. They sell a promise of shares, hope the price falls, then try to obtain the shares they’ve sold. In the [...]

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