Tim Worstall

Because I said so, of course. What other reason do you need?

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Lucky man has found paradise on this earth. Bastard, of course. How dare he when we haven’t/can’t/ inequality of happiness etc etc cont. pg 94 Grauniad

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Post gone for complicated reasons that have convinced me.

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Cision Frontline Breakfast: come and meet the UK’s superstar bloggers Rightie ho. Who then? Dale? Guido? Sunny? Will Straw? Mumsnet? Who? Alex Powis – The Daily Street Alex writes for urban fashion and culture blog, The Daily Street – with particular focus on the music industry, being a DJ and producer. The Daily Street discusses [...]

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Ahem.

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1) Both Marie Stopes and BPAS are not-for-profit organisations. By definition they have no financial interest in women having more abortions. Sunny seems to think that making a profit is the only possible financial interest that anyone could have. The Tory Party is a not for profit organisation but I’m pretty sure he’d think that [...]

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Pop over to Tom Paine’s.

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Whilst I usually breeze through these landmark birthdays, this time it hurt. Truth to tell I’m pissed at turning 60. They say 60 is the new 50, but almost overnight I appear to have morphed into a grumpy, white-haired doppelganger of Spencer Tracy, circa Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner. I’m not a happy bunny. The [...]

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Might work, might not….we’ll know more when he’s done more than just announce himself.

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I just realised that plenty of mainstream US Democrats, having spent the last however long castigating people to the left of them for perceiving some progressive tendencies in the government of Fidel Castro, are now reduced to supporting the re-election of a President who imprisons people without human rights in Cuba, but who has made [...]

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Here and here.

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That means that we need to have a massive disaster management plan in place to get us through the potential crisis that  August represents.  I admit that I don’t have time to write that whole plan this morning, but here’s an outline of what is needed. Guess who?

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Let’s hope he stays back, eh?

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Dale & Co is a new blogging platform, showcasing 92 writers, each with editorial independence, providing some of the best political, media, social and sports commentary on the net. Right, OK. Looking at the list of contributions on that front page I see…15 stories. OK, good. 12 of which are about the NOTW story. Ah, [...]

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SON: You could buy me some Pokemon Black and White cards.

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The questions remain though, Tim: Why did you take the word of a proven fantasist, liar and police informer at face value and without a jot of corroborating evidence in support of his claims? And what exactly are you doing in bed with such a deeply unsavoury nonentity? Well, lessee. Individual I’ve never met (let [...]

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Not to be nasty or anything but you’d think that a woman who has made it to middle age would have worked this out by now: Of course there have been some cynical comments in among all the messages of support, but the overwhelming response has been wonderful, and has shown the internet at its [...]

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OK, so it’s the blog that The Guardian tells us we should all look at. And there are indeed some interesting juxtapositions: Salvador Dali & Walt Disney There are some others that are a great deal less surprising. David Bowie, Iggy Pop and Lou Reed, 1972 Bowie and Iggy were long time friends and collaborators [...]

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Blogmanship. Under £3 at Amazon……

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