Tim Worstall

See, we can so do this community thing with having to be told or directed to.

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I don’t really see myself as a mixed-race person, I see myself as an Englishman. It’s just such an unnecessary detail, I think. Seal. Quite, having gained the first prize ticket in the lottery of life why qualify it?

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Did I ever tell you that Pops Worstall was in the Royal Navy? Firstly you must always implicitly obey orders, without attempting to form any opinion of your own regarding their propriety. Secondly, you must consider every man your enemy who speaks ill of your king; and thirdly you must hate a Frenchman as you [...]

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Well, yes, sorta: Another example is his use of stats to show the quality of life outside London, a famous phrase which those of us who enjoy it know to be true, but only in that vague, gut way that is anathema to statisticians. With his colleague Bethan Thomas, he searched for gold-standard data that [...]

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In a country known for butter and bacon, Denmark’s new tax is a body blow. Danes who go shopping today will pay an extra 25p on a pack of butter and 8p on a packet of crisps, as the new tax on foods which contain more than 2.3% saturated fat comes into effect. Everything from [...]

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Via, this: It was a Tri-Nations test like no other – it was tense, there was a grandstand packed with spectators, a commentator, national anthems and officials scrutinising the competitors’ every move. The only thing missing was a rugby ball. Instead, in a makeshift shearing shed in Molyneux Stadium, Alexandra, New Zealand, Australian and South [...]

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And a good pun at comment three.

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I have an American friend who is absolutely insistent that this is all the proof that anyone could need to prove that the English are entirely mad: It was the sound of wholesome 1980s Sunday-night TV: a plaintive “baaaa!”, a piercing whistle, and “Come Bye!” ringing out across the lush hillside. At home, eight million [...]

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I know, I know, we think of it as a place where anything goes. And in one manner, that’s entirely true. You can be the surf bunny, the goth, the hippie, Christianist, you can follow whatever path you desire by and large. But within each of those defined paths there’s a very definite pressure not [...]

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Research by the Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) has revealed local authorities which are attempting to redraw the boundaries of Green Belts in their areas to make way for new housing. Analysis of local development plans drawn up by councils have revealed that swathes of land will be “redesignated” to allow the development of [...]

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Interns? At an Ad Agency? Doing something useful? Moral even? Chip in folks, chip in.

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David Jones, a project manager who received the invitation, said in a letter to the BBC’s in-house magazine, Ariel: “I’ve just been invited, along with everyone in Technology, Distribution & Archive, to John Linwood’s ‘brown bag lunches’. “Having to resort to Wikipedia, I understand this refers to a ‘training or information session during a lunch [...]

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How would anyone know?

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Yes, yes, they do. People from Glasgow and Birmingham are wrongly judged to be less intelligent and capable because of their accents, researchers have found. We really do need to have a word with the Telegraph about their subeditors. What is that “wrongly” doing in there?

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England is not the United Kingdom. The flag of England is the Cross of St George, the flag of the United Kingdom is the Union Jack.

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Sure, we all knew this but now we’ve scientific proof: Northerners’ brains are bigger, scientists find Note that what they’re actually measuring is cranial capacity, not in fact brain size. So, yes, bigheads. Strangely, it’s not the weird diet of mushy peas and deep fried ferret with whippet sticks. It’s purely and simply living north [...]

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Could it be that the left is predisposed to exaggerate the power of the press because doing so provides a comfortable explanation for what is an otherwise unpleasant fact – that the British people don’t share our beliefs for some deep-seated reasons?

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“Oh man,” says Guarisco. “There are so many different levels of excitement.” And then suddenly, a thought strikes him. In a rare moment of something approaching concern he asks: “Do people dance where you’re from?” Err, yes, but in a slightly whitebread drunken uncle at the wedding disco sort of way. The native dance is [...]

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No one gets married in a castle unless they own it. Carolyn Bourne

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If I were presented with this picture and no further information, then asked, well, what type of housing do you think this man lives in, yes, my answer would be council housing. We’re only a gold sovereign ring (old style) or Burberry cap (new style) from full blown chavviness. Harsh, yes, but class can indeed [...]

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