Tim Worstall

So just what is the best way to make a bacon sarnie? Other than, you know, just more bacon?

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Or at least the tosh talking one. This is a lesson with far wider significance. Our present economic woes are in no small part down to the fact that economies grew not on the basis of such real exchanges, but on the movement of numbers on a screen. And that’s also why foreign ownership isn’t [...]

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Children aren’t commodities, and families should not be seen as toy sets, uncompleted until you have all the different figurines. When someone spends £30,000 flying to New York to select the sex of their next child, they aren’t choosing life. They are choosing a lifestyle. And that is very different. Actually, ever since we said [...]

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I will have to write this up as a case study one day…..

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Me being cheeky.

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It’s possible to have entirely serious discussions about going veggie or not. It’s also possible for people to be entirely cretins about the subject: With many regions like the Sahel in Africa already facing near-famine conditions, 2 billion people already malnourished, and an estimated 2 billion increase in the world population by 2050, a global [...]

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They’re getting very confused over at Guardian Towers. Apparently the mass sacking of bureaucrats from one level of the NHS is causing a shortage of potential recruits for another layer of the NHS bureaucracy. What?

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Lawyers are always told never to ask questions to which they don’t know the answer. I am not a lawyer. It’s hardly surprising that the mainly publicly owned rail systems in the rest of Europe – several of which now run bits of Britain’s privatised rail – are cheaper. Is this actually true? I know [...]

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As Alex Morton has argued in Cities for Growth, a paper for the think tank Policy Exchange – the problem with the UK housing market is not, as many policymakers seem to imagine, a lack of credit, but a lack of supply. Nor is there any absence of land on which to build. The constraint [...]

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Suddenly it hit him. Instead of trying to cajole others to review a client’s work, why not cut out the middleman and write the review himself? Then it would say exactly what the client wanted — that it was a terrific book. A shattering novel. A classic memoir. Will change your life. Lyrical and gripping, [...]

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This looks like a nice and profitable piece of woo. Campaigners are calling for pills which allow drivers to drink five pints of beer and still pass a breathalyser test to be banned after a businessman began selling them in the UK. Arthur Kibble, 64, boasts the ‘Alcopal’ capsules allow motorists to drink until they [...]

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Here. As Winston himself said about a very different matter. Makes you proud to be British. The prudes and the prodnoses can bugger off, can’t they?

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Is for great rhetoric and demagoguery from Ed Millipede. This is about as likely as the same from Mr. Bean.

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In this little video George says something very strange indeed. That the economy is limited by the real value of assets in the physical world. Which is a very strange indeed thing to say about any possible world after capitalism. For it’s actually the definition of the world before this strange capitalist/free market mix that [...]

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It’s the campaign to boost urban landlord’s rents. The vast majority of green belt is open countryside, still rural in character despite being close to London, Birmingham and other cities. This “ordinary countryside” is as precious as our great national parks but it is under serious attack, from day-to-day planning proposals and from a Chancellor [...]

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Was in the bank today and chatting to the manager thoughts turned to the property market. It’s basically dead. He’s completed 3 transactions so far this year: as opposed to his normal 3 or 4 a month. ERA and Remax, the two big estate agent chains, have closed at least half their places. The banks [...]

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At the ASI. Is this green energy thing going to be even more expensive than we’ve been told?

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No. Fuck off. That is all.

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Leading water scientists have issued one of the sternest warnings yet about global food supplies, saying that the world’s population may have to switch almost completely to a vegetarian diet over the next 40 years to avoid catastrophic shortages. Humans derive about 20% of their protein from animal-based products now, but this may need to [...]

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You know who continually tells us that we must pay taxes according to the spirit of the law, not the letter. Treasury and tax officials are in urgent talks to try and limit the damage caused by a VAT ruling that threatens to result in companies making fresh claims for millions of pounds in rebates [...]

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