Tim Worstall

Animal rights activism and renting out the deer stalking rights….compatible or not? My view, I think (as I know so little about country stuff) that as you’ve got to cull the deer anyway, might as well make some cash from it. And you’ve got to cull because the UK has no predators left. Seems to [...]

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The new website Dial-a-Star.com claims that it is the only place you can talk directly to a TRUE Celebrity on the phone. Sample rates: Danielle Staub: $18 per minute ($1,080 per hour) Tila Tequila: $20 per minute ($1,200 per hour) Dina Lohan: $18 per minute ($1,080 per hour) Nadya Suleman (OctoMom): $12 per minute ($720 [...]

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Adopted as a baby by a family in Silicon Valley, Jobs met his biological father – Abdulfattah “John” Jandali – several times in the 1980s without realising who he was, according to Isaacson. Jandali had been running a restaurant in the area at the time. But Jobs never got in touch with Jandali once he [...]

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Pamela Anderson was on stage for barely 15 minutes yesterday but her debut as the Genie in Aladdin Pamerla Anderson? Panto?

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No, not Posh. The one on his face. What I’ve not seen mentioned as yet is that it falls foul of the naval rules on beards. If you wish to be a bearded Jolly Jack Tar then you go to the Captain at the beginning of some reasonably lengthy cruise (a couple of weeks before [...]

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Naomi Watts named as best value actress in Hollywood The British-born actress Naomi Watts has been named as the Hollywood actress who gives the best return on the money she is paid. Isn’t “best value for money” usually a synonym for “cheap”?* *I know, I know, cheap shot, couldn’t resist.

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Is all over the news today. He’s going to donate his brain to science. Just wondering, but when will this happy occasion be? Soon?

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A very naughty thing to do of course. Terrible: The pop singer is being treated with intravenous antibiotics to fight the superbug, which could cause permanent damage. Jackson, 50, was photographed with inflamed skin on his face and hands as he visited the Beverly Hills clinic where he is being treated. He is reported to [...]

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To get an ID card, people will have their faces scanned and will have to give 10 fingerprints. Campaigners fear that this will put off celebrities like American singer Madonna from setting up home here and so damage the cultural life of the nation. Now I give way to no one in my hatred of [...]

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So, umm, we know who wears the trousers in that marriage then, yes?

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And, umm, Keanu Reeves?

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This photo. As Matt T points out. It’s also notable for its picture caption, which gets every single model’s name wrong.

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Murray, the UK’s highest-ranking tennis player, was eight years old when the former scout leader Thomas Hamilton burst into Dunblane primary school and opened fire with a collection of handguns. Sixteen children and a teacher were killed before Hamilton shot himself. Murray and his elder brother, Jamie, then 10, were on their way to the [...]

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Eh? Grandpappy was a Nobel winner? Newton-John’s mother was the eldest child of Max Born, a German Nobel prize-winning physicist WTF?

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Slightly bizarre: There was also an odd postscript, that few people know of. Willie Rushton brought the ashes back to England in an Air France hold-all. "What have you got in that bag, Mr Rushton?" he was asked at Customs. "Tony Hancock," came the truthful reply.

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Ashley Alexandra Dupre is of course the name of the prostitute at the centre of the Eliot Spitzer sex scandal. This post is here as a test. Governor’s prostitute was a ‘homeless runaway’ Ninemsn – Sydney,New South Wales,Australia She now goes by Ashley Alexandra Dupré, although it is unclear if this is her legal name. [...]

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OK: After insisting for decades that she saw “no reason” ever to marry, Julie Christie has finally wed her long-term partner Duncan Campbell. But there’s two journalists called Duncan Campbell aren’t there? One on the staff at The Grauniad and the other who sometimes writes for the G on security and terrorism issues….isn’t there?   [...]

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As the weekly news cycle comes to an end and darkness descends on a gloomy Friday, there are two great news stories doing the rounds, neither of which the great British media can report. One involves a famous broadcaster and his love child by another journalist and is covered by an injunction. The other is covered [...]

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Intelligent women seem captivated by her, characterising her as a tart with a heart. "Down to earth" is regularly attached to descriptions of her. Since when did being slightly working class become a virtue in itself? Torygraph reverting to form I think, don’t you? Who is the ghastly little working class chav calling herself Jordan?

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I know, I know, I shouldn’t believe everything I read on a celebrity gossip site. But this: Paul’s daughter has exacted her revenge on her wicked stepmother by reportedly designing a one-leg necklace. Fierce! The silver, single-limbed pendant was unveiled to a select group of fashion industry players in Paris last month as part of [...]

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