Tim Worstall

I cannot, for legal reasons, say why this is passing the parody horizon, but I can point to this story and state that it is. Hugh Bonneville, who plays the upstanding Earl of Grantham in Downton Abbey, launched a campaign on Twitter on Saturday to force the social-networking website to prohibit advertisers of pornograpy from [...]

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Well, OK, maybe, maybe this is true. In order for it to be true or not true we’ve got to start wibbling around the edges of what is in fact rape, what is sexual assault and so on. Meaning that if we’re wibbling around these sorts of definitions then we’re about right in terms of [...]

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Hmm, maybe art’s a little strong, but even I’ve heard that Adele’s records started off from a bit of a heart bashing. At her 18th birthday party she told him she was falling in love with him. But four hours later he is said to have left her for one of her gay male friends. [...]

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A man who used to be a woman has become Britain’s first “male mother” by giving birth to a son. The definition of him as a man is subject to a possible correction. Although he has legally changed his gender to male, the man in question was able to give birth last year because his [...]

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Preventing pregnancy is not a low-frequency, high cost event, This may be true of the recently married but not of all…..

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Scotty Bowers, now aged 88, is unveiling what he claims were the antics of the Hollywood elite including Cary Grant, Rock Hudson, Vivien Leigh, Katharine Hepburn and even the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. He claims that he set up Hepburn with “over 150 different women” and other stories in his memoir relate to Spencer [...]

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This is all most amusing: The joint letter states: “Psychological care for those who are distressed by unwanted homosexual attractions has been shown to yield a range of beneficial client outcomes, especially in motivated clients … Such therapy does not produce harm despite the Royal College of Psychiatrists and others maintaining the contrary.” It concludes: [...]

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Undercover and uniformed officers have been monitoring three lay-bys off the A165 after residents of Skirlaugh and Coniston, East Yorks, repeatedly complained about the misbehaviour, known as dogging. Despite 18 people being stopped in less than a month, none were found to be committing an offence and were given a leaflet with guidance on public [...]

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The Independent Healthcare Advisory Service, which represents all the major cosmetic surgery chains, is calling on the government’s expert working group, which begins its investigation on Wednesday, to look carefully at new figures it has obtained from an audit of all its members. The figures, from thousands of patients, show a rupture rate within the [...]

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Made from bronze and smaller than a ten pence piece, the coin depicts a man and a woman engaged in an intimate act. Experts believe it is the first example of its kind to be found in Britain. It lay preserved in mud for almost 2,000 years until it was unearthed by an amateur archaeologist [...]

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2012 in review.

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A survey has found that just 6 per cent of new mothers agree that Britain has become a better place for families since the election. A further 47 per cent say ministers’ policies have not made any difference, while 22 per cent say the situation has worsened. Hmm, so, how was this found out? In [...]

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I do have to admit that I don’t quite get this. Birnberg Peirce and partners have commenced legal action against the Metropolitan Police on behalf of eight women who were deceived into having long term intimate relationships with undercover police officers. The five undercover officers* were all engaged in infiltrating environmental and social justice campaign [...]

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Fancy that. Three in four women believe there is no such thing as the perfect man So only 25% of British women are entirely deluded then. For, being human, there is no such thing as perfection. And we’ll leave aside whether there is in fact such a thing as the perfect woman. It is rather [...]

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Think you might be a little confused dear. We call it prostitution when women’s bodies are rented out and slavery when they are sold, not fashion.

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Allowing women to drive in Saudi Arabia will be ‘the end of virginity’ For as has been pointed out, perhaps the greatest social effect of the Model T was the decline of virginity at marriage as people worked out what the back seat was for.

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But Paris is almost entirely unanimous on one point: that Epstein’s very readable piece is predicated on an assumption of competence by the UMP dirty tricks department that’s nothing short of fantastic. “That lot couldn’t conspire their way out of a paper bag” is the consensus. It’s not the most flattering of explanations but it [...]

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These Herman Cain shagging women accusations. Actually, in at least one case, an accusation of sexual assault on a white woman. 100 years ago they would have lynched Cain even for the allegation. Today they’re still mulling over whether he should be a Presidential candidate. Yes, it’s still possible to see “black man as voracious [...]

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Chris Huhne, the Energy Secretary, faces questions about his partner’s conduct after it emerged she sought lobbying work. If a politician starts bonking the PR help (and these days it’s hardly unusual, perhaps the modern replacement for bonking the secretary) then of course there’s going to be a bit of difficulty if they set up [...]

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For Ms. Yvonne Roberts seems to be sending a message. She’s hailing the joys of divorce for the over 60s. “Selfish, moi?” Mother and Father, amicably divorced, might say. Too damn right – and why not after 30 or 40 years toiling at the matrimonial rock face? It’s never too late to put the fun [...]

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