Tim Worstall

And for the better: Patrick Ndlovu, who was 15 at the time of the killing, confessed his role in the crime to police but a lack of forensic evidence and a failure by detectives to treat him as a minor saw a judge rule in his favour. However a second man, farm worker Chris Mahlangu, [...]

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Although it has not yet been publicly launched, the National Allegations Database is already receiving tip-offs at the rate of one every six seconds. The deluge of claims – the equivalent of 100,000 allegations every year – suggests there are far more illegal immigrants in the country than is estimated.   No, it means that [...]

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Right off, ya’ hear? Whether or not I agree with what they’re saying I do know that we’ll all be entirely buggered if they’re not allowed to say it. This is, still, a free country and it will remain one if we have to strangle the last quangocrat with the intestines of the last bureaucrat.

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I’m not shocked but I am amazed. So The G has reorgainsed its former Liberty Central as Human Rights and Liberties. The thing is, I can find no reference at all to economic liberty there. Something of an ommission?

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Apparently social justice requires that parents cannot educate their children as they would wish. Or as we might put it, social justice requires the abolition of liberty and freedom.

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Lying cunts: The CIA warned MI6 that al-Qaeda was planning an attack 18 months ago, but withheld detailed information because of concerns it would be released by British courts. British intelligence agencies were subsequently forced to carry out their own investigations, according to Whitehall sources. Several potential terrorists were identified with links to a wider [...]

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Again: Plans to monitor emails, phone calls and websites are vital to track down and convict killers like Ian Huntley, the Home Secretary has said. Listen you ignorant trollop. That you did not need the new powers to track down, capture and convict Ian Huntley means that you do not need the new powers to [...]

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The first one is slightly odd. Yes, I know the Assads are murderous thugs etc. However, they are the de jure and de facto government. So under what provision of what law are they not allowed to impose public order? Put down an armed uprising? Isn’t that what de jure government means? That you are [...]

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So, reader poll. Do we hang or shoot the bastards that came up with this? .

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This is a bit of a bodyblow to the idea, isn’t it? Gay marriage is not a human right, according to European ruling And do not forget, the definition of what is and is not a human right has been outsourced to those very judges. Not something for us to decide domestically any more. And [...]

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The British media must be challenged as to why they give UKIP leader Nigel Farage so much attention, air time and column inches when UKIP members hold such vile views. While I believe in free speech speech, I do not find it acceptable for the media to promote a party which is so obviously on [...]

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There is no reason sexual harassment in the street should be any more permissible than racist language But racist language should be permissible in the street. As should sexist, xenophobic, religious, irreligious, blasphemic and pure blind outright hatred. It’s called “free speech” you see? Incitement to violence, no, that’s not permissible, libel (OK, slander when [...]

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Homophobia: at last we’re learning to cherish difference There is heartening evidence that we are becoming more tolerant of people’s sexual orientation The second line is obviously true. The first may or may not be: but it isn’t what we need to be doing anyway. Whether we want to be talking about sexual orientation as [...]

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Christians who want to be exempt from equality legislation are like Muslims trying to impose sharia on Britain, Trevor Phillips, the human rights watchdog, has declared. No, I’m afraid this isn’t quite correct. “To me there’s nothing different in principle with a Catholic adoption agency, or indeed Methodist adoption agency, saying the rules in our [...]

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So, Loma Linda, place in California where the health nuts hang out. And half the city are 7 th day Adventists. And McDonalds whishes to p[ollute the heaqlthy air of this mostly vegetarian town with a store selling burgers and the like. We know how this is going to turn out, don’t we? The freedom [...]

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The occasion of Peter Tatchell’s 60 th birthday. Man’s a loon of course. His various forays into the world of economics have been laughably ignorant. Certain of his campaigns have been based upon very, very, odd readings of the world. Yet, as Sellars and Yeatman didn’t put it, he’s not been wrong but wromatic, nor [...]

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Writing in today’s Observer, Baroness Warnock, a leading expert in medical ethics, backs a change to the law, which currently leaves someone who assists in the suicide of a friend or loved one liable to up to 14 years in prison. Yes, this is true, it does. Although the current law is clear that assisting [...]

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The home secretary, Theresa May, has ordered Muslims Against Crusades, an Islamist group which is planning to disrupt Friday’s Armistice Day ceremonies, be banned from midnight. Sigh. Freedom of speech means that people are indeed allowed to burn poppies if they want to be idiot enough to do so. Freedom of association also means that [...]

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So, George Monbiot tells us all that advertising is ‘orrible and links to a WWF (ya, wildlife people telling us all about advertising!) report which says: It is incumbent on the advertising industry to demonstrate that the cultural impacts of advertising are benign. No mateys, that isn’t how it works. It could be of course, [...]

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For, as the UK supreme court made clear in July, the right to know the case against you remains a fundamental common law principle – as Lord Kerr described it, “an elementary and essential prerequisite of fairness”. Ken Clarke and the security services can bugger off then, can’t they?

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