Tim Worstall

Offenders fighting deportation are able to use human rights defences to avoid removal whereas Britons facing transfer under extradition laws find it almost impossible to do so, the joint committee on human rights suggested. It means the likes of alleged computer hacker Gary McKinnon, who is fighting extradition to the US, has fewer rights than [...]

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An art project (I think this is what it is called? Performance art? Inclusive art? Participatory art?) being done by a beloved cousin. Here. If any of my readers who actually know about such artistic things (clearly, the familial art genes did not acumulate in me) would care to track down the project in London [...]

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At the WSJ. Sadly, my last para did not survive the editing process: The real Robin of Loxley made his bones by assassinating those who collected taxes that had been levied unjustly, and returned the cash to the pockets of the populace where it might fructify. While such a commendable course of action fully justifies [...]

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Last week, Energy Minister Charles Hendry said in public for the first time what had thus far only been said in private – that it is UK policy to support drilling for oil and gas in the Arctic. Since when did this become UK policy? And why has the House of Commons never debated it? [...]

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But this is not just a war between narco-cartels. Juarez has imploded into a state of criminal anarchy – the cartels, acting like any corporation, have outsourced violence to gangs affiliated or unaffiliated with them, who compete for tenders with corrupt police officers. The army plays its own mercurial role. “Cartel war” does not explain [...]

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Its stunning location in the Yorkshire Dales,

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These people are nuts: Some of Europe‘s largest industrial companies gained billions of euros from the carbon emission rules they lobbied fiercely against, new analysis reveals today. Ten steel and cement companies have amassed 240m carbon pollution permits from generous allocations, according to a report by Sandbag, the carbon trading thinktank, seen by the Guardian. [...]

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Isn’t it just terrible? But West fears it will lead to more intensive units to produce cheap meat for Britain. An actor is worried that we might solve humanity’s oldest problem. How to produce enough for everyone to eat.

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In the first year of the Coalition, 87 per cent of the 400,000 newly created jobs have gone to immigrants — as Britons fail to chase work, according to new official figures uncovered by the Labour MP. Under previous Labour administrations the figure was about 80 per cent. The economy generates 2-3 million new jobs [...]

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Long memories in that part of the world you know: All we need is for Athens to sack a few thousand more public sector workers, lop a few billions more off their pensions, chop more benefits, collect more taxes, and perhaps the problem will go away. If the Greeks would only change their national character, [...]

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Here.

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In my opinion this man should be shot. Pour encourager les autres, as we used to do with Admirals.

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Here. He seems to be blaming the opposition to a Greek haircut to bond holders on the banks. Which is so weird as to be almost insane. It’s precisely the banks, the financial traders, who all accept that there is no solution without a haircut to bond holders. That’s, after all, why the bonds are [...]

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At the ASI.

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No, not important, just never seen myself mentioned in that language before. Tim Worstall comentează şi el ştirea pe blogul Forbes: “din boomul www a ieşit un Google, e adevărat, un Amazon, un e-bay. Dar să evaluezi companiile ca şi cum toate ar fi Google şi nu ar putea fi aduce a definiţia bulei”. Am avut [...]

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One solution posited. Tastes will vary of course. This is neither an endorsement or a rejection of the thesis by me. Just letting you know it’s out there.

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Nobody would think that it is OK to deny someone a job as a result of their sex, race or age, and the same should stand for disabled people, too. We do deny people jobs because of their age: 14 year olds do not get hired as delivery drivers. We do deny people jobs on [...]

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Yet something pretty dramatic is needed to preserve what is left of the wonders that once thronged our broad acres. Indeed. We could preserve the Great British Countryside by stopping putting windmills all over it for example.

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Alexander says those earning less than £15,000 will be protected from paying more. This is less than the equivalent of £7.60 an hour and covers just 4% of civil servants. At a 37.5 hour working week, which I’ve been told is standard, that’s £7.69 an hour. And it was a good little lefty who told [...]

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You’ll have heard much about “gold-plated” public sector pensions this week, but can you guess the discrete group of public sector employees whose pensions are not so much gold-plated, or even platinum-plated, as rhodium-plated – metaphorically clad in Earth’s most precious metal? Aaargh! Rhodium is a precious metal, yes. But “precious metal” has a meaning [...]

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