Tim Worstall

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Entries Tagged as 'The State'

Nowt so irrational as peeps

March 17th, 2011 · 18 Comments

So, when I heard that the price of potassium iodide had soared on e-Bay as a result of idiots thinking that the light and very short lived radiation from Japan might soar over 7,000 miles of ocean and kill Californians dead in their beds, I tried to think through how I could make money out [...]

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It’s the same old problem at heart

August 8th, 2010 · No Comments

Bit of the Ben Goldacres here: What don’t usually make the news, however, are the hundreds of cases when the social workers’ failure is the very opposite: where, aided by police and courts, they seem determined to remove children from responsible parents, to consign them to an often miserable life with foster carers or to [...]

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The Scout Association has seen a huge membership rise in recent years. Why?

April 20th, 2010 · 1 Comment

It’s called “civil society” Leo. Bugger off and leave people to get on with it. That’s how you get 500,000 children doing something they enjoy, organised by volunteers who also enjoy what they do.

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Polly’s Paradise

June 28th, 2008 · 15 Comments

You know how Polly T keeps going on about how Sweden is so wonderful, the Nordics are the people we should be emulating? The birthday party case takes state intervention to a new level. Before the beginning of lessons the boy had cheerfully threaded his way through the class handing out invitations. When the teacher [...]

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Against Tax Funding of Political Parties

February 27th, 2008 · 1 Comment

One very good argument against State funding of political parties is that it entrenches the current incumbents: further, that it allows the State to define who can be considered as a political party, even to ban some people from standing for election. Yup, happening here in Portugal, right now.

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The Great Question

November 12th, 2007 · 1 Comment

Janet Daley does rather hit this one out of the ball park: It is nothing less than the question of who should have the real power in a free society – a government elected by the people, or the people themselves through their own direct agency. Quite. When will they learn that people’s lives are [...]

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The Care of the State

September 29th, 2007 · 5 Comments

Aren’t we lucky to have such a wonderful and caring organisation looking after us: However, it is just such a fate that befell Jean Gambell when at the age of 15, in 1937, she was falsely accused of stealing 2s 6d (12.5p) from the doctor’s surgery where she worked as a cleaner. She was sectioned [...]

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