Tim Worstall

Since when was giving people a choice a good idea? The coalition’s obsession with self-determination, whether on schools or GPs, penalises the least able In short, no one should have choice because some are too ignorant to make use of it. If uncertainty about preserves is a problem one can probably live with, or possibly [...]

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For the sake of Germany and the wider eurozone, Angela Merkel must stop playing domestic politics with the Greek issue. German politician must stop doing what the German electorate want. So much for democracy then….

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Anyone help with this? For the past couple of days it’s been difficult to load a page. Keep getting “Connection reset” page. “connection reset while this page was loading”. Is this something on my machine? Or further down the line at my ISP? Hitting “try again” four or five times usually loads the page. Any [...]

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Homosexuals deserve to be executed or tortured and possibly both, an Iranian leader told British MPs during a private meeting at a peace conference, The Times has learnt. Mohsen Yahyavi is the highest-ranked politician to admit that Iran believes in the death penalty for homosexuality after a spate of reports that gay youths were being [...]

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Where would it all end if people who had risked their lives for freedom were actually allowed to have any. Those bastard war veterans, arrogantly assuming that the liberty they risked their lives fighting for includes the right to participate in $5 cribbage games.  

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Very provocative this and with more than just a grain of truth to it: But this also casts an odd light on the labour movement and on trades unions. Through their adherence to the ideas of jobs for life, and their demands that working class people be able to depend on benevolent and paternalistic forces, [...]

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My, my: The Metropolitan Police told organisers of the Stop the War Coalition that no march would now be allowed “within one mile of Parliament” while MPs were in session. The organisers, who are expecting thousands of people to turn up for the protest march from Trafalgar Square to Parliament Square, said that this was [...]

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