Tim Worstall

In the event that our prayers are answered, Boris Johnson will be Editor in Chief of the Telegraph, Tim Worstall its Economics Editor and Jeff Randall its Business Editor.
Might be some time before I can cash the paycheques though…..

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About Australia, the convicts and so on.
Although I find myself forced to point out that I’m descended from someone who a) went there voluntarily and b) then left.
According to gg grandma, Australia was a place to visit, not a place to go to.

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Sorry, work calls. There will be little blogging around here for the next few weeks/couple of months.
Bills have arrived which need to be paid so I must be off to do very boring and, quite frankly, entirely shite freelance work in order to pay them.
Someone else will need to keep Mr. Murphy’s antics in the [...]

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I am directed to this piece in Vanity Fair by James Verini. The piece and the direction coming from James you understand.
A very good piece about Matt Taibbi and Mark Ames of the eXile, the newspaper in Moscow which has just closed. Or been closed by the authorities perhaps.
The coincidence being that James is a [...]

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But nearly:
A tale of drink-sodden debauchery between passengers and crew is revealed in the journal of a junior officer on an emigrant ship to Australia more than 170 years ago.
James Bell sailed on the Planter, which left Deptford, southeast London, on the five-month journey to Adelaide in November 1838. “With [...]

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So, new PC ‘n’ all.
Everything on it should work rather than the jury rigged box I did have.
So, how come I cannot have both speakers and a Skype phone working?
If I have the Skype handset plugged into a USB slot then trying to play music, Youtube, whatever, plays through the phone only.
Unplug the phone and [...]

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So, thunderstorm…..lightning….UPS seemingly not working as computer blows up.
Nip round the computer shop, 450 euros later, Compaq box and new UPS.
Use IE to get Firefox, then AVG, Open Office, Skype, OK, back to work.
Missing a few bookmarks for things I’d intended to do but just about everything important is online in GMail.
OK…..but just wanted to [...]

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That piece I did at CiF has disappeared from the front page.
Yes, yes, I know, as time goes by, they do.
But it’s gone before its time…..there are older pieces with many fewer comments still up.
I wonder why?

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This couple who have won a fortune on the euro lottery.
A couple who live near Cirencester.
I know a couple who live near Cirencester. Wonder if it’s them?
Now, before you deride me as being entirely lunatic, the possibility that the winners are the couple I know who live near Cirencester is a great deal higher than [...]

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An offer has already been agreed on nearly three acres of mature woodland and grapevines near Combe Hay, Bath.
But if the exchange fails to go ahead next Tuesday, it will go under the hammer at the Francis Hotel in Bath at 6.30pm on March 2 with a guide price [...]

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Bishop Hill is mentioned here.
Or take a book published last month called The Hockey Stick Illusion by Andrew Montford, a rattling good detective story and a detailed and brilliant piece of science writing. Montford has never worked in the media. He is an accountant and science publisher who works from his home in Milnathort in [...]

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SPIN doctors at Ben Bradshaw’s Culture Media and Sport department are being paid an average of £64,000 a year…
Now I’ve done that job….not for a govt department, to be sure….and even including the NI payments as they say, that’s one hell of a pay rate.
Hmm, given that I’ve been half of a press team that [...]

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HowManyOfMe.com

There are

or fewer people with the name Timothy Worstall in the U.S.A.

How many have your name?

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A voice of your childhood dies.
Bill McLaren.
Vale.

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1) Smoke less.
2) Cycle more.
3) Eat better.
4) Drink better not less.
5) Be nicer.
6) No, we have enough dogs.
7) And cats.
Annoy Ritchie.
9) And the nef.
10) Well, looks like it’s about time to do it then. The Chinese are threatening to cut off rare earth exports meaning that the high tech industrial world will either [...]

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Saw in one of the local English language rags here that RyanAir has just agreed a €400 million investment in making Faro one of it’s regional bases.
They don’t fly out of Faro at present.
From what I understand RyanAir turning up at the local airport (50km away) leads to something of a boom in the price [...]

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Tagged by the Devil to do this write a letter to myself at 16 thing.
Dear Tim,
Could you please go and buy some decent running shoes. My left knee has been giving me gyp for 15 years now and it’s all because you insisted on going out for a trot every afternoon (yes, I know, it [...]

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A number of years ago, more than I really care to remember, I was gearing up to try and take the Cambridge University entrance exams (which I failed, dismally and quite naturally) by taking A- Level economics again*.
I’d been out of school for a couple of years and thus needed to get back into some [...]

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This is probably trivial for someone who knows how to do this.
For me it’s impossible (given the help you don’t get from google itself).
Over at the other blog I’ve a problem with getting Google Adsense to run.
This blog, a number of blogspot ones and a couple of Typepad ones all run off the same Adsense [...]

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Peace on earth is a little tough to ask for. I am, despite being not worthy, loved by those I wish to be loved by and to my surprise by some who I have wronged.
My parents, my wife, my family are all hale and hearty despite some of them being in dangerous parts of the [...]

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