Tim Worstall

Yes, yes, it is. And remember, if you like it you can always buy a second copy….

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As it is said, interesting what they thought was memorable about him at the time: Bram Stoker, author, theatrical manager, close friend and adviser of the late Sir Henry Irving, died in London last Sunday. For twenty-seven years he was business manager for the famous English actor, in charge of the Lyceum Theatre during Irving’s [...]

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Hmm, seems the publisher has put Chasing Rainbows on Kindle finally. Not that they told me but……

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True, it’s Jenny Worstall’s romantic novel set in the world of classical choirs but it is a Worstall book free today on Amazon. You really should download it you know. This is a tremendously enjoyable, well-written new book with pace, fascinating characters and a strong story line. The author is clearly a perceptive musician who [...]

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One of my sisters that is. Tristan is a choral conductor, twice married and determined not to be caught again. Lucy is a young music teacher in his choir and she is besotted with him. Steve, a bass in the choir, adores Lucy while Claire, a soprano, has designs on Tristan. Various romantic entanglements take [...]

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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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