Tim Worstall

Today’s published Commons order papers contain a question to be answered by a minister later this week. The Guardian is prevented from identifying the MP who has asked the question, what the question is, which minister might answer it, or where the question is to be found.
The Guardian is also forbidden from telling its readers [...]

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It is my opinion that Johanna Kaschke is “one cherry short of a Schwarzwalderkirschtorte”
That is all.

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A massive windfall tax on the mega-profits of Shell and BP would be a vote-winner and the right thing to do – make them put something back to help with pensions.

Oh, well done. Major owners of BP and Shell shares are pension funds. So taxing the companies will reduce the returns to said pension funds [...]

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George Monbiot on the libel laws.

Perhaps you don’t live in England or Wales, so you think this has nothing to do with you. You’re wrong. English libel law now applies to everyone on Earth. Make any accusation, anywhere in the world, and if the subject can demonstrate that a single person in England or Wales [...]

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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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Here is a preliminary transcript of a speech given by Tom Wise last night at about 11 pm. Said speech was given under Parliamentary Privilege and thus may be repeated, without fear of the libel or defamation laws, by any media outlet:

 
When the EU talks of a ‘Common Foreign Policy’ on energy, you need [...]

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