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Hosting A Supranational Kegger

Alex Noble - November 23, 20200

I once saw a towering drunken meathead lose his rag in a pub when denied service and throw every item on the bar into...

Business

Cute But No Cigar Over Amazon Pharmacy Trademark

Tim Worstall - November 23, 20205

One way of reading this story is peppy little upstart being steamrollered by capitalist giant. At which point, Yah, Boo, Sucks, change the law...

Environment

Boris’ Green Plan And Jobs

Tim Worstall - November 22, 202013

From our Swindon correspondent: Something shared by both the green announcement and the defence announcement was all the jobs that would be created. From the green...

Trade

To Shout About Tariff Free Trade, Again

Tim Worstall - November 22, 202019

We've had one sensible decision made about trade post-Brexit. Bangladeshi goods will continue to enter the UK tariff free. Now, if only people got...

Politics

Priti Va-cant

Tim Worstall - November 21, 202015

From our Swindon correspondent: From Reaction.Life How safe is Priti Patel, the Home Secretary? On one level she is battling for her political life after a Cabinet...

Healthcare

Why Wouldn’t This Be True?

Tim Worstall - November 20, 20206

Research by the respected economist Philip McCann has found – astonishingly – that the inequalities between our regions are now wider and deeper than...

Civil Liberty

A Modest Proposal About The Coronavirus

Tim Worstall - November 19, 20207

Why do not the Covid-19 lockdowns and other nonpharmaceutical interventions have to meet the same strict standard in the United States that the FDA...

Business

That Black Family In The Sainsbury’s Ad

Tim Worstall - November 19, 202016

A certain incomprehension of reality seems to be poking its head around the curtains here. Sure, people mouthing off because Sainsbury's uses a black...

Tax

It’s Because, You Idiots, Because

Tim Worstall - November 18, 20202

The Times tells us - huffily - that Shell paid no corporation tax in Britain last year. Tsk, eh? But they manage to get...

Climate Change

Measurements Depend, Of Course, On What You Measure

Tim Worstall - November 17, 202019

Greenpeace and the like want to tell us that burning plastics produces emissions. Sure, obviously, this is true. Plastics are hydrocarbons, burning them produces...

Feminism

Those Definitions Of Man And Woman Do Actually Have A Meaning

Tim Worstall - November 17, 20206

It is possible that the words "man" and "woman" have some objective meaning, something important that is being validly described. In which case which...

Environment

Electric Dreams

Tim Worstall - November 16, 202031

From our Swindon correspondent: From The Guardian:- Boris Johnson is understood to be planning to ban the sale of new petrol and diesel cars within a decade,...

Economy

The Latest Third World Debt Crisis

Tim Worstall - November 15, 20205

Brown, who played a major part in helping tackle Africa’s debt crisis 20 years ago, said if a comprehensive solution were to be found...

Brexit

The Gross Disaster Of Brexit For The Music Industry

Tim Worstall - November 12, 202013

Isn't this just a disaster: Dear fellow musicians, performers, technicians etc. Here’s a thread about how our lives are going to change re touring/working in...

Immigration

Come And See The Bias Inherent In The System

Tim Worstall - November 12, 2020 7

There's a logical failing in the current preoccupation with AI, 'bots and the possibility that they contain bias. Because, of course, the very thing...

Business

The French Never Really Did Understand Capitalism, Did They?

Tim Worstall - November 11, 2020 9

Apparently, cutting the feed in tariffs to already built solar power plants will mean the solar power plants cease to exist: France at risk of...

Europe

How Many Kids Will The European Union Kill Today?

Tim Worstall - November 11, 2020 2

There are costs to everything, to everything. Sure, there are benefits too, but the important thing is to balance said costs and said benefits....

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