Tim Worstall

OK, the report itself is obviously true. Unions get taxpayers’ money fed to them through the government, unions then donate large sums to the Labour Party which happens to be the peeps in charge of government.
A gross and vile corruption of the body politic.
It’s illustrated with a picture of a man in a flat cap. [...]

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This is either absolutely appalling, in that you didn’t get it:
This was in happier times, before Hunter professed herself to be shocked by the magazine’s pictures of her lying on a bed wearing pearls and no pants, since she was sure the photographer would be interested only in face shots.
Or it’s absolutely [...]

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Mirror headline.
The story is much less interesting.

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….of articles written purely and solely to provide the lead up to the pun in the final line:
Hitler has only faced one ball.

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She lives hundreds of miles into the countryside, thousands of miles above sea-level
I don’t think so Sonny, I really don’t think so.
Thousands of feet possibly, thousands of metres even but not miles.
One thousand miles above sea level is near the upper bound of low earth orbit….
As to the rest of it, well, difficult to [...]

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Underlying the dispute, of course, is a series of corporate failures under Walsh’s stewardship, the impact of recession and the threat from low-cost airlines that have led the way in driving down labour costs and standards across the industry. That BA cabin crew should be condemned for attempting to halt the [...]

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Looks like it’s internationally agreed:
2. Service discrimination by race?  (Warning: Daily Mail story)

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Considered opinion from the New York Times:
America would be a wiser country if we had more people who knew how to translate “doorknob.”
This is the would be paper of record remember. Still, anything to help:
اسْم : أُكْرَةُ البَاب . مِقْبَض

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According to the Encyclopaedia Britannica, the condition is the darkness in an animal’s skin, feathers, or fur is acquired by populations living in an industrial region where the environment is soot-darkened. It can be gene related
It does, however, mean that the probability that [...]

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During the 1992 General Election campaign, the journalist and author Edward Pearce joined Winston Churchill MP on the stump at his Stretford constituency.
Churchill, who died this week aged 69, always struggled to escape the shadow of his famous grandfather and wearily expected to be reminded of this on the doorstep.
‘Good morning, I’m Winston Churchill, your [...]

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People want government to do more on most things – controlling immigration, preventing globalisation stealing away jobs to China,
Wow! How does that happen? Do they pack them up in containers at the dead of night, those jobs, and ship them out through Dover?
Or is Polly simply being ignorant again?
But the state can’t liberate unhappy [...]

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Comment central asks for a blues for comment central.
Well, this ain’t a blues (although the chords and lyrics follow the form) and it also isn’t very good (needs more work Worstall, see me after class).
She drew out all her money of the Finchley Trust
And put her little boy aboard a Wapping Bus
Leaving central London for [...]

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No, no, thrice no.
Some planes are merely stored at the base between deployments, but for more than 80 per cent of the 4200 aircraft that call it home, it is a cemetery of steel – 350,000 items to be called on when needed.
Yes, it’s a very nice photo from Google of the aeroplane graveyard.
The desert [...]

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So there’s to be an announcement of a new off the grid super duper energy generation thingie called the Bloom Box today.
The Guardian’s environment correspondent seems to be a little at sea about what it actually is.
A new but still unseen technology that its creator claims can be an off-grid source of cheap, clean [...]

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Sometimes the centre of gravity pulls leftwards, when voters rebel at grotesque wealth side by side with shaming poverty; the rich child who cannot fail beside the poor child with no chance, greedy bankers beside hospital cleaners not earning enough to keep their family. In political economics that calls for a bigger state and better [...]

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SIMON COWELL BUYS MUM A NEW DOG.
Trees died for this.

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New York Daily News, in a piece on stars facing forclosure:
Cash-strapped Michael Jackson is auctioning his trademark glove from “Billie Jean,” the Neverland Ranch gates, and about 2,000 other items this April. The singer has been plagued by financial woes since he was acquitted of child-molestation charges in 2003. He went into default on his [...]

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Statins? Chinese herbs? How DO we tell the truth?
Double blind clinical trials.
Next!

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Sometimes they get it right:
The scandal surrounding the golfer’s alleged infidelities won’t harm him in the long term because “gold needs him”, experts say.

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Anyway, silly names aside, I am still partly reliant on my parents despite being old enough to be one myself, a point that my mother never tires of making. “You know that you are going to be 30 this year,” she says. “When I was your age, I was already paying your school fees.”
Gosh, my [...]

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