Tim Worstall

He said: “We need to do more to improve the supply side of the economy. This means taking on difficult vested interests.” But of course it’s not just the unions and the planning system that need that reform. The whole damn system of regulation needs to be shaken up. Just as an example, it is [...]

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Just Thinking makes an interesting point. Few to none have been charged with riot: as I’ve been saying, this might well mean that there wasn’t in fact a riot and thus the rozzers not having to pay for the damage caused in those not riots. What slightly worries me is that Frank Dobson thinks this [...]

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Interns? At an Ad Agency? Doing something useful? Moral even? Chip in folks, chip in.

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The reason, I’ll warrant, is that the male distribution of ego has a right tail that stretches far into the horizon.

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Well, it had to be Julie Bindel whining about it, didn’t it? The British women’s beach volleyball team‘s new design of, ahem, kit, reveals more than the fact that women’s sport is still not taken seriously. Looking like extras on the set of Baywatch, the team, spotted this week on London’s Horse Guards Parade “warm-up” [...]

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while bond yields in both Britain and the UK dropped sharply on expectations Yes, Britain and the UK are indeed different places but there’s only one bond market for the both of them. So what is it that Larry has found out that the rest of us don’t know? NI is to issue its own [...]

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With council budgets under pressure, teenage pregnancy co-ordinators are being axed, an exclusive investigation for SocietyGuardian reveals. The last few decades have shown quite conclusively that teenagers can coordinate pregnancies without the aid of bureaucrats.

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“Roger understands audiences,” says Rollins, the former Reagan consultant. “He knew how to target, which is what Fox News is all about.” The typical viewer of Sean Hannity’s show, to take the most stark example, is a pro-business (86%), Christian conservative (78%), Tea Party-backer (75%) with no college degree (66%), who is over 50 (65%), [...]

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There’s a name for this sort of thing. Checking newspapers for odd juxtapositions of photos and headlines. Given that May hasn’t actually ever done anything we’ve no need to be ashamed of her as a nation: Ken, well, make up your own minds.

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David Jones, a project manager who received the invitation, said in a letter to the BBC’s in-house magazine, Ariel: “I’ve just been invited, along with everyone in Technology, Distribution & Archive, to John Linwood’s ‘brown bag lunches’. “Having to resort to Wikipedia, I understand this refers to a ‘training or information session during a lunch [...]

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Bailey, who earns £1,000 a month at Stockwell Primary School, south London, left court with a newspaper over his face. A headline about “copycat cretins” covering his eyes, he walked into a lamp-post.

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Via The Bishop there’s a new set of socio-economic models underlying the climate change models. I’m sure this will provide hours of fun for everyone. The light green line is the one that produces the least climate change. We get to 490 ppm CO2-e and then it declines. The dark blue one is the Armageddon [...]

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A thought. We are told, endlessly, that only the rapist is to blame for rape. Nothing that the victim does, has done, where they go, how they’re dressed, nothing at all changes the fact that the rapist is solely and completely responsible, in and of themselves, for the crime. So why isn’t this true for [...]

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Writing from NYC we get some woman complaining about how low taxes are in the US. My response there. Yes, the federal income tax rate is 35%. Add the NY State income tax of 8% and the NY City rate of 4% and you’re at 47%. This isn’t a low income tax rate by anyone’s [...]

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How would anyone know?

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Full of wonders it is: There currently exists a loophole whereby businesses can offset this year’s profits against last year’s losses. This should stay for SMEs as they struggle through these difficult times, but the government have craftily neglected to tell us that the banks who returned to profit this year are exempt from paying [...]

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So, ya’kno’, those horrible conflict minerals? Fueling the Congo violence? So we’ll all agree to track what comes from where and peace will reign, kittens will gambol in the African sun and life will be better? The “Loi Obama” or Obama Law — as the Dodd-Frank Wall Street reform act of 2010 has become known [...]

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I’ve posted this before yet asinine MSM reporters continue to make statements on air such as ‘leaving businesses with a big bill’. So any journalists reading please pay close attention. Look at your insurance policy; go the exclusions and find the word that occurs between ‘radioactivity’ and ‘terrorism’. Yep. Riot. All that damage – if [...]

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Sunny Hundal wants to jail one of his own contributors. I always knew he was a rum’un. Plus, what is tax evasion and tax avoidance if not (legalised, in the latter case) looting? This sort of looting requires two factors: a herd mentality (which reduces individual risk) and the expectation that the rule of law [...]

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The problem here is that Ha Joon Chang seems not to understand the basics of what he’s commenting upon. Yes, I know he’s an academic at Cambridge, clearly vastly brighter than I am (yes, being an academic at an institution I failed to get into probably does mean that) but seriously, what is this drivel? [...]

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