Tim Worstall

So Fred Goodwin’s superinjunction has been lifted. It is now permissible therefore to say what part of all the fuss was about. Allegedly, and I have only heard this said, I have no evidence one way or another, Sir Fred was banging one of the birds on the risk management team. I’ve heard it said [...]

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Ritchie’s reported a man to the police for a passing joke: A PRESENTER on Manx Radio has been reported to police after making inflammatory comments on air during a live broadcast on Monday. UK tax expert Richard Murphy told the Examiner he has reported the matter to police after presenter Stu Peters appeared to call [...]

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This looks like an absolutely excellent idea: Campaign group Compass is holding its annual conference at the Institute of Education in London on 25th June. The Robin Cook Memorial Conference will bring together over 1000 centre-left activists, campaigners and thinkers, for discussion and debate. The event will feature over 90 speakers including: Jon Cruddas MP; [...]

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And aren’t you surprised? He says that privatisation “hasn’t failed in every regard”, citing increased passenger numbers – yet, as the government accepts, this increase mirrored the state of the economy – as did the folding of franchises like East Coast and the ditching of Great Western when the wild projections of ever-increasing profits fell [...]

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And fails, dreadfully. To edge back a step, our deficit was nothing like Canada’s either. Theirs had been rising steadily since 1974, and had got to 70% of GDP. Ours was 30% before the financial crash, a figure that is manageable, almost respectable. The deficit isn’t 70% of GDP, it wasn’t 30%. That’s the National [...]

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I hadn’t realised they were this high: But he ruled out fare cuts as he warned that the £5.2bn-a-year state subsidy for the “relatively small” and “better off” proportion of the population that use trains is unsustainable. Overall, farepayers currently spend £6.2bn a year. Srsly? Some 50% (near enough) is subsidy? demand that saw 1.3 [...]

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Psychology Today tries to explain what was wrong with Kanazawa’s piece pointing out that black/African women are perceived as being less physically attractive than those of other genetic backgrounds. It’s a very politically correct and very bad fail: The point is that there are also group differences, not in attractiveness (as Kanazawa claims), but in [...]

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Opened something of a hornets’ nest here, has our intrepid researcher. Satoshi Kanazawa’s racist nonsense should not be tolerated The psychologist’s latest article asks ‘why black women are less attractive’. What will Psychology Today and the LSE do about it? Well, go have a look at what he actually said (using Google cache). As I [...]

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Do you occasionally wonder what JBS Haldane’s reaction would be if he found out that his wife had slept with his brother? Would it be better or worse if she had slept with eight of his cousins? And to take the question seriously…. In the only polyandric society I’ve heard of (bits of the Himalayas [...]

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Shall we swap Fergies? I propose a Useless Female Celebrity Exchange. We Americans will keep your Sarah Ferguson if you take our Fergie. Fergie. Sarah Ferguson. Err, yes, we’ll swap?

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To be clear, there are two camps of egotistical politicians who cheat so stupidly, and the two should not be conflated: those who value consent and those who treat women like sex toys they can grab at, with little regard for what the women in question feel on the subject. Men like Bill Clinton and [...]

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They really are being cretins here: The UK is to put in place the most ambitious targets on greenhouse gases of any developed country, by halving carbon dioxide emissions by 2025, after a tumultuous week of cabinet rifts on the issue. Agreeing the targets took weeks of wrangling among ministers, but late on Tuesday afternoon [...]

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The guitarist in this now writes songs for Beyonce. Unbelievable: not everyone from the Forest of Dean is an as thick as pigshit inbred then?

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Could Greece, in other words, be the new Lehmans? Given the structure of modern financial markets, with their chains of derivative trades and their pyramids of debt, there is only one answer. Greece could certainly be the next Lehmans. The likelihood that a Greek default would pose a threat to the future of the eurozone [...]

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The revelation, which he said he had confessed to his wife, Maria Shriver, after he stepped down as governor, now makes sense of their separation after 25 years of marriage. The couple announced the split on 9 May, without giving any explanation. It now transpires that for at least a decade, unbeknown to his wife, [...]

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Not to any reasonable question it ain’t. Take the case of farming suitable for a world with climate change. And let’s just agree with the IPCC here. It’s happening, we’re causing it, something must be done. Let’s also take their predictions of what will be the effects. Warmer, wetter winters, hotter, drier summers. With such [...]

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Surely she silently applauded when, with Downing Street spin doctors busy discussing what “roles” William and Harry should play in the funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales, he bellowed down a speakerphone from Balmoral: “F— off. We are talking about two boys who have lost their mother.” Quite. World would be a better place of [...]

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What’s important is not what’s being done in the open, with the hand you can see, what’s the other one doing? A “reprofiling” or “soft restructuring” of bonds held by private investors, defined as a voluntary loan “extension”, was floated by Jean-Claude Juncker, Luxembourg’s prime minister and president of the eurozone finance ministers, after a [...]

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It appears to be that it was all consensual. No, really, quiet shy Muslim women working as chambermaids offer sex to portly Kermits all the time, don’t they? Just part of being Un Grand Fromage, collecting gifts and obeisance from the peasantry.

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Blogmanship. Under £3 at Amazon……

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