Tim Worstall

If you have need of offshore programming, data recovery, IT help services etc please do think of using an old buddy of mine in Moscow.
Artyom can be found here.
As you can tell his English is pretty good. If I remember correctly the degree was nuclear physics, taken when he was living on our couch.
Given the […]

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I seem to have provoked a reaction here:

I am the Revolution, and I want my fucking country back.

Well said that man!

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“Even yesterday it was fairly obvious that there was something very strange about this.” Emergency services on the Algarve said it was common to have to take British parents to hospital after falling into alcoholic comas. Many Portuguese wondered why the case was being taken so seriously.

Well, not up here in a hard working town […]

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Leetle power cut around here this morning.
So, without a computer, been and walked the dogs, done the shopping, filled in those bureaucratic forms I’ve been putting aside, ablutions done, photos taken….it’s amazing how much you can do in the real world when you’re not playing with a keyboard, isn’t it?

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Tens of thousands of cars will become almost worthless as a result of the decision to raise road tax on older models with higher carbon dioxide emissions by up to £245 a year.
Many families will find that they cannot sell their cars even though they are in good working order and no more than seven […]

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So yesterday evening I’m out riding my bicycle along the main road.
Over on the other side I hear a dog yelp, look over and there’s a dog either just been hit or thrown out of a car on the bank. Assume it’s dead and carry on.
A couple of km’s down the road I think about […]

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Not a huge amount has changed.
I used to work in the kitchen under the high pavement almost exactly where the photographer is standing.

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Satire doth uncover the deeper realities:
*In fact, Polly has many admirers, not least of all a certain Tim Worstall who manages to blog about her at least once a day in between the rest of his anti-woman commentary, the pig! It is an open secret in the blogosphere that Tim (who is […]

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I hear a rumour that after the ASI do on Wednesday that someone or other had their breakfast bought by Plod.
I also hear that it was rumoured to be myself, as I didn’t blog that day.
Nice story, except I was on a train to Exeter in the morning and a flight to Portugal in the […]

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Trains, planes and automobiles.
Done the first, waiting for the second, to get to the third….

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Hmm.

A herd of more than 60 pig sculptures, above, appeared yesterday as part of a public art project. The King Bladud’s Pigs in Bath art initiative will eventually lead to 100 of the animals scattered across the city. The white, life-sized sculptures will be painted and decorated on behalf of different communities and businesses across […]

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The pound slumped to a fresh record low this morning, bringing more bad news for British holidaymakers as it pushes up the cost of continental breaks.
Ahead of the Bank of England’s decision on interest rates at lunchtime, sterling fell to 80.27p against the euro in early trading, after hitting 80p for the first time yesterday.

For […]

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Dah de dah dah dee dah,
Dah de dah dah de dah,
Dah de dah dah dear Timmy,
Dah de dah dah de dah.

Right, celebrations over. Back on your heads everyone.

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The date is Wednesday April 16th, and the bloggers are out in strength at the Adam Smith Institute. The evening’s theme is "Curbing the Crap Artists," with three top line bloggers to show how. Tim Worstall will speak on curbing the crap journalists. Guido Fawkes will tell us how to curb the crap politicians, and […]

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Looking to buy a car, LHD, naturally.
This looks very cheap: 

1992 JAGUAR XJS 5.3 V12 HE Sports Price: £4,500 2 Doors, Automatic, Coupe, Petrol, 22,000 miles, MOT-02-2009. Climate Control, KEYLESS ENTRY, LHD, Air conditioning, Alloy wheels, Anti theft system, Computer, Leather upholstery. Totally original, only 22k miles, FSH, NO RUST whatsoever, as new probably best […]

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The workmen fitting the kitchen…turned off the power and the modem’s blown.
Three or four days to get a new one, so I’m stuck back on the GPRS through the laptop modem.
Grrr.
Blogging might be light.

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Remember I said that the name Worstall comes from the two villages, High and Low Worsall in Yorkshire?
Many thanks to Ian Bennettt who has actually gone there to take photos of said ancestral acres.
Here.

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On the road again, I’m on the road again….
Off to Exeter for the UKIP SW conference.
If anyone happens to be round and about Exeter central this evening, or near Chequers in Bath (the one up by Portland Place) on Sat at 7 ish, drop me an email with a mobile number and there might be […]

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There’s simply so much wrong wih this statement:

Wherever there are scarcity and free choices, market reality automatically follows. I finished reading "Discover Your Inner Economist" by the Marginal Revolution blogger Tyler Cowen. The book was bit of a disappointment in that even though MR is the top-notch economics blog, in the long form Cowen just […]

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