Tim Worstall

Amazing. Declining currency leads to inflation in prices of imported goods. Not a perfect correlation there, of course, but good enough. Who would have thought it, eh?

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If you’ve got an old desktop computer with as little as 348MB of RAM, it could be fun and useful again with the help of Jolicloud. As little as 384 MB of RAM? Dang, I still recall the day my XT was upgraded to 640 kb.

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Vladimir Putin has faced claims that he is the richest man in Europe, presiding over a mafia state and with a personal fortune of more than $40bn (£25.5bn). But Russia’s central election commission has said his bank balance was rather more modest – a mere $179,612. No, absolutely, I always believe what the State tells [...]

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To reinforce British diplomats’ wilful blindness, the Foreign Office has closed half a dozen embassies in Latin America in recent years, to minimise the danger of receiving subversive opinions from foreign capitals. All part of Britain’s national decline. Erm, isn’t that in fact the flip side of the European Diplomatic Service? Replacement of individual country [...]

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In Indonesia   ‘Punk will never die!’ Hadn’t known that punk was such a big thing in Indonesia.

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A survey has found that just 6 per cent of new mothers agree that Britain has become a better place for families since the election. A further 47 per cent say ministers’ policies have not made any difference, while 22 per cent say the situation has worsened. Hmm, so, how was this found out? In [...]

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At the ASI. Why there’s so much money in US politics

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Just a thought, a near random one. When it’s men puffing out their chests, doing the peacock strut, this is macho and bad. When it’s women thinking about their titties this is a terribly important matter of body image. Why is it that exactly the same thing, standard gender behaviour, is good when done by [...]

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A tad odd we might say. Sunny writes a piece arguing (oh so wittily!) that Maggie’s State Funeral should be privatised. In the comments, this: http://www.guardian.co.uk/discussion/comment-permalink/13856000 WouldWouldnt22 December 2011 02:33PM Here are a few extracts from the Guardian’s “community standards” policy 1. We welcome debate and dissent, but personal attacks (on authors, other users or any [...]

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Let’s imagine that Etxebarria is, indeed, going to teach creative writing. What she’ll discover on her first day is that the students in her seminar room have very little interest in how much money they are likely to make from their published work. I teach on just such a course at UEA, and I can [...]

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At the ASI. Why Kim Jong Un should trade more with Tim Worstall

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In an attempt to make it easier for children to be placed with loving families, a panel of experts from the adoption sector has been set up to overhaul the rules. Who has concocted the current cat’s cradle of ideologically motivated stupidities? The experts in adoption. Getting said experts to overhaul the rules will simply [...]

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Come along now, you used to edit a newspaper. But fairness cuts both ways. Today’s report on the tax leniency shown by the Revenue towards big corporations indicates that toughness towards the poor is not replicated by toughness towards the rich. The estimate was of some £25bn in taxes gone missing, the bulk of it [...]

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What nobody seems to think worth mentioning is how corporate sponsorship changes the very meaning of these palaces of culture. The British Museum and the National Portrait Gallery, in particular, are meant to stand for who we are as a people, as a democracy. They are the cathedrals of democracy. He really does seem to [...]

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So the Scots are doing deep fried butter now. Nutritionists said its estimated calorie content was 1,450 – enough to keep an adult alive in the Arctic for a week. Jesus fucking christ, can we not get a few of these arts graduates to understand some basic numbers? Not asking for any arithmetic or anything, [...]

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Researchers found people who live rough are likely to die more than 30 years earlier than the average British person. According to new figures homeless people will die in their 40s – men on average at 47 while women have a life expectancy of 43. The homeless life expectancy rate compares to that in the [...]

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The Coalition’s planning reforms are biased in favour of developers and create an “inevitable” risk of more development on the greenest parts of England, a cross-party group of MPs has warned. Green? It’s grass you morons. Not something that needs the power of government to protect it. What is this, people have to go live [...]

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Odd for me to be defending a Guardian columnist, one on economics come to that. But it does have to be done. You see, what Inman has done is gone off and found out about the economic impact of taxes. And he’s come back with this new found knowledge. We should lower or abolish corporation [...]

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@RichardJMurphy Richard Murphy Brown’s 0% small co. corporation tax was an avoidance nightmare – Yes, yes, it was wasn’t it? What with Norfolk based accountants setting up limited companies which took the £10,000 tax free profits as dividends, paid themselves minimal salaries as directors so as to gain NI benefits but pay only a minimal [...]

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