Tim Worstall

One doesn’t want to be ungallant but 33 is fairly long in the tooth for a chorus ballerina*. If you’ve not collected the rich businessman by that point one is going to have to think about working as a second career. Mariafrancesca Garritano, 33, has broken the unwritten code of silence – which she fears [...]

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Matthew Illsely, reader of this blog (and thus, of course, a good guy) has a thriller out on Kindle. More Dangerous State than Courageous and quite probably with more accurate economics in it. It’s not about economics, of course, it’s a thriller. Not that having more “accurate economics” is going to be difficult. The Pogo [...]

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Galloway and the Borders is, I’m told, the book with the best description of the subsidy regime for spruce planting in the UK and also of the history of it. I therefore need a copy of this book but it seems to be out of print. Second hand copies are £50. Which seems a tad [...]

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So go and see what exciting free books this one is offering.

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as part of an otherwise entirely credible series by respected left figures such as Richard Seymour, Nina Power and Laurie Penny.

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A former inmate cook who made the last meals for prisoners at the Huntsville unit, where Texas executions are carried out, wrote a cookbook several years ago after he was released. Among his recipes were Gallows Gravy, Rice Rigor Mortis and Old Sparky’s Genuine Convict Chili, a nod to the electric chair that once served [...]

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But what a very strange thing to sue about: His contract with Phaidon is, he claims, a restraint of trade because it seeks to ban him from working on other projects with different publishers. The owner of the Saatchi Gallery in Chelsea says he made two agreements with Phaidon in 2009 for books provisionally called [...]

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Men, by and large, leave this subject alone. Somewhere it’s a given that men don’t have anything too reflective to say about sex, or they feel silenced by feminists. Where is the male Suzanne Portnoy, the male Melissa P? What men will write honestly about their highs and lows, their triumphs, their sexual sorrows? What [...]

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and conclude that ‘a little knowledge is a dangerous thing’. Yes, Mr. tendentious English major without an understanding of standard errors, it is.

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A week or two back John Naughton made a reference to something I’d written for The Register. OK, prance, preen etc. So I know that Naughton reads The Register and that he’s even known to read (some) of what I write there. So I see his column today. And it covers the very subject I [...]

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Fun looking book from David Friedman. Explanation here and download here. Some of the Moorish/Iberian techniques and combinations, if not the actual recipes, look familiar from the modern day Algarve. For those seriously into cooking could be fun to try out a dish or two.

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But on the whole, because a barrister’s performance in court is so open to scrutiny and objective judgement, the good, male or female, will succeed. So, err, none then. Or at least none specific to women. So what’s the point of the whole article other than to plug Ms. Jacob’s novel? One wonders which executive, [...]

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He’s right you know, that Ben Shapiro, absolutely right. Look, for example, at this propaganda from Sesame Street: Music is there to be enjoyed by those of all races and ages. Such subversion of all that is good and holy, eh?

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90% of the world will have no idea what peeps are going on about. The other 10% will, as in the comments here, be serving up some of the best comic scenes ever written. The radio show was better than the TV one and possibly better than the novels. As for the movie…..yurk.

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There are books on our shelves we haven’t read and doubtless never will, that each of us has probably put to one side in the belief that we will read them later on, perhaps even in another life. The terrible grief of the dying as they realise their last hour is upon them and they [...]

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It’s fairly standard practice that over time good little phrases, sayings, witticisms, get attributed to the wrong people. As who actually said what to whom disappears into the mists of history it’s as if there’s a form of gravitational force attracting the attribution of this or that to just one or two historical figures. Which [...]

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For those of you with Facebook accounts, please go and like this: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Stephen-West/214360245248176?sk=wall Now for the favour: once a “fan” page gets at least 25 likes, you get certain extras from Facebook, such as a custom name. If you have a Facebook account, I’d like to ask you to click on the above link, and [...]

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22 Portnoy’s Complaint by Philip Roth A defining moment in Jewish American literature now most famous for a masturbation scene featuring a piece of liver. Disappointingly, this is not as interesting as it sounds.

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I get a rather nice review of the book in the Galveston “Daily News”. Many of Worstall’s conclusions are contrary to the conventional wisdom, but Worstall arrives at them by starting with the positions presented by major environmentalists. He then pares away the demonstrably wrong. Next, he starts with the solutions postulated by environmentalists and [...]

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