Tim Worstall

Why not?

But many Danes see Greenland as a millstone. It has big social problems: the poverty of fishing families whose waters have been taken over by foreign fleets, a high suicide rate and high levels of HIV and Aids.

A possibly apocryphal story, the Prime Minister of Greenland was asked, some decades ago, why the country […]

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More than 40,000 football fans travelling to Moscow to watch the all-English Champions League final this month will not need visas, it was announced last night.
Supporters will only need to provide a match ticket, passport and completed immigration card to enter the country under the temporary rules.
The decision, which had been expected for several days, […]

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Here on planet Earth, 43 years is a long time. Based on 20th century experience, it’s about 11 US presidential election cycles, 1 French Republic and 0.8 global wars away.

Snigger.

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Tim Newman pointed out that there’s going to be something of a problem for those fans wanting to get visas to go see the match (sorry, can’t find the link…oops, here.).

The simmering diplomatic row between Russia and the UK is threatening to prevent thousands of Chelsea and Manchester United fans travelling to Moscow for the […]

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A startling revelation: the Frogs are trying to spice up their sex lives and in doing so they’re buying up British designed sex toys.
One possible explanation is that the Brits (as George Mikes pointed out, the Continentals have sex lives, the British have hot water bottles) needed technological assistance and thus developed the technology […]

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Famously outspoken Italian opposition leader Silvio Berlusconi has claimed that right-wing politicians are more attractive than their left-wing rivals.
The centre-right’s candidate in this weekend’s national elections said the Left had "no taste" in women.
He said that when he looked around parliament, he found female politicians from the right were "more beautiful", the BBC reports.
"The left […]

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Or so says Time magazine. In an attempt at a defense, we get this:

And in how many other countries would a philosopher, Bernard-Henri Lévy, be frequently seen holding forth on prime-time television shows?

Rather proves the original contention, doesn’t it?

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My French was rustier back then and it took me a few seconds to comprehend the banners, which read: "la grève des chômeurs".
Then it sunk in: the unemployed were on strike.

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I’m desperately sorry to have to tell you all this but this video (nicked from Iain Dale) is the biggest load of unhistorical codswallop imaginable.
 

The people who brushed off the Romans were no more Scots than Lenny Henry is Scottish.
They were the Picts, a group that faded out of history in the 11th […]

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An occasional series in Esquire:

What’s with all the friendliness? Everybody in America seems to want to make sweet love to all their colleagues while behind their backs they want to ram rusty screwdrivers down their throats. In my country, it’s the other way around: Everyone at the workplace is unfriendly to each other, and then […]

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This is one of the problems we have with teaming up with Johnny Foreigner in all of these international organisations:

South Africa’s police chief faces a warrant for his arrest as a bitter struggle at the top of the country’s ruling African National Congress threatens to plunge the country into chaos.
The warrant against Jackie Selebi, who […]

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