Tim Worstall

“I would like to pay everyone who volunteers for me and who is ultimately seeking a wage. The reality is that I do not have the resources to do so,” she said in a statement. Get one of your paid staff, not the unpaid slaves, to write your press releases for you. Just a friendly [...]

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It is not surprising, however. Because the sad fact is that the BS notion that it is okay to manipulate facts in order to present a Greater Truth is now widespread in the decadent British media. Mark Lawson once wrote a column titled “The government has lied and I am glad”, in which he said [...]

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It sounds like a scene from Come Fly With Me: a badly disabled young boy, excited about what is likely to be the last foreign holiday of his life, is prevented from going because the budget airline from which his parents have bought tickets decides his wheelchair is too heavy to put on the plane. [...]

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The actual energy analysis is that bad. But the surrounding argument is nonsensical. The energy “war” is going to lead to global conflict like the Thirty Years’ War that devasted Germany. Umm, right. Never heard of trade then? Sigh. The Thirty Years’ War was, at heart (and whole libraries have been written about the causes [...]

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David Hillman, spokesman for the Robin Hood Tax campaign, said: “The British government should wake up and smell the coffee. Other governments are moving ahead with a bank tax, while we are letting our financial sector off the hook. “A Robin Hood tax on the banks would be the most popular tax in history.” A [...]

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No one gets married in a castle unless they own it. Carolyn Bourne

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Laurie of course being the Germaine Greer de nos jours. Also, we are dealing here with literature in translation, but all the judges are anglophone, which is ridiculous. The prize is for literature translated into English: being a native English speaker is therefore something of an advantage. Right now, I don’t know. I don’t read [...]

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Which I have put up at Forbes. Hunting Hari: Judging Johann’s Journalism. Fair and balanced I think you’ll find.

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An interesting question and one to which we would like to know the answer. What’s the top rate we can charge the rich so as to maximise the income we get from charging the rich? Looks like, for Germany, it’s around 67%. Hurrah! says Ritchie and assorted minions. Let’s whack up the tax rates on [...]

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Our concern is that when individuals and corporations “shop around” different countries for the best tax deal, this puts pressure on governments all round the world to lower their tax rates, which results in an ever-dwindling proportion of profits going to governments to spend on schools, hospitals and public services. Yes, that is the point [...]

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Oh this is lovely. Johann Hari’s defence doesn’t actually work. However, when interviewing someone, a journalist uses skill and labour in recording quotes accurately and selecting those most appropriate for publication. So the quotes in an interview are protected by copyright. If any are to be used by another publication then the fair dealing defence [...]

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In Greece last week, I met workers at the Piraeus port authority. They had already seen one of their terminals go to the Chinese and hundreds of staff lose their jobs. Now they worried about them coming for another bite – and more unemployment. Privatisation raised cash upfront, admitted port employee Anastasis Fzantzeskaki, but it [...]

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Nouriel Roubini, Larry Elliott, George Soros, and…..Tim Worstall! Tim Worstall, a fellow of the Adam Smith Institute, writing his column on Forbes says he has been predicting the euro’s demise since before its creation. He writes: “As I’ve been saying for years, the euro is bound to fall over, the euro will inevitably fail as [...]

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Drunken bust-up woman sprays cops with breast milk Ohio jub juice bandit faces substantial rack of charges

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And it’s a glorious one: I’ve been reflecting on the situation in Greece and have pointed out that much of what is happening is the inevitable consequence of neoliberal thinking. Yup, fiscally incontinent socialism is neoliberalism.

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Why do the over-60s pay no national insurance, however much they earn? Abolishing that would bring in £3bn, and that is enough to repair the shaming state of care. Because national insurance is just that, insurance. Once you’ve paid the premium you’ve paid the premium. If you want to abolish that link, then fine (as [...]

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This is the important question suggested by this piece in the Guardian. By this rather confused young lady. Now, Ellie worked as a hospital cleaner you see. She now works as a temp in London. Fine by me, I see nothing wrong with that. But Ellie herself ought to. For as she says: Hospital cleaning [...]

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