Continental Telegraph

Luvvie Wrong As Usual

Tim Worstall - June 5, 20204

Apart from ruining James Bond, Sam Mendes is also wrong about all sorts of other things One last thing. While a huge percentage of working people...

Science

That Lancet Hydroxychloroquine Paper Withdrawal And Data Availability

Tim Worstall - June 5, 202010

The Lancet has withdrawn the paper looking at hydroxychloroquine, the one that insisted that it increased, not reduced, the death rate. The problem is...

Civil Liberty

Strange Things About the George Floyd Tragedy

Tim Worstall - June 5, 202013

The horrible death of George Floyd at the hands of a cop in Minneapolis leaves me mystified by a few things (in addition to...

Economy

Central Bankers May Blow, But They Suck At It

Alex Noble - June 4, 20203

AESOP wrote in the 6th century BC about the North Wind and the Sun competing to remove a traveller's cloak from his back. The more...

Climate Change

You Must Not Call It A Lovely Sunny Day Because Climate Change

Tim Worstall - June 4, 20209

Weather forecasters, news editors, and the like must stop calling hot sunny days lovely, or nice, or celebrate that people might be able to...

Newspaper Watch

Afua Hirsch And The Fight For Black Rights

Tim Worstall - June 4, 20208

Ms. Hirsch: In the UK, black people and our allies are taking to the streets as I write to wake British people up out of...

Healthcare

Life vs Living

Tim Worstall - June 4, 20209

From our Swindon Correspondent: From The Guardian Sweden’s chief epidemiologist and the architect of its light-touch approach to the coronavirus has acknowledged that the country has had...

Business

Go Woke Go Broke (Fruit Flavoured Edition)

Tim Worstall - June 3, 20206

From our Swindon Correspondent: On Tuesday, June 2nd, Apple Music will observe Black Out Tuesday. We will use this day to reflect and plan actions...

Elections

The Regulation Of Political Advertising

Tim Worstall - June 3, 20209

The chairman of the Advertising Standards Authority takes to The Guardian to talk about the regulation of political advertising. The interest being that there're...

Environment

Solar’s Cheaper Than Coal – Great, So We’ve Beaten Climate Change Then, Right?

Tim Worstall - June 3, 202013

It's not necessary for us to actually agree with the following statement in order for us to derive a logical conclusion from it. After...

Economy

Cats And Dogs………Living Together!

Alex Noble - June 2, 20206

So the government borrowed until they couldn't afford the repayments, then they collapsed the debt stack and printed until our currencies were on the...

Economy

They Have Money! Tax Them!

Tim Worstall - June 1, 202010

This is a lovely little example of the attitude towards taxation from a certain strand of the left. Some people have been saving some...

Newspaper Watch

Journalists Don’t Have Any Special Rights – Nor Should They

Tim Worstall - June 1, 202018

Varied representatives of the media suffer from a misapprehension - that they have some special set of rights not available to the rest of...

Europe

Of Course The ECB Is Breaching EU Law

Tim Worstall - May 31, 20204

There is indeed a tension out there in euroland. On the one side the Federasts are insisting that anything and everything should be done...

Business

Hertz Was Really A Used Car Dealer, Not A Car Rental...

Tim Worstall - May 30, 2020 6

We all know what Hertz was before it went bust, it rented cars out at airports and the like, right? So, when people stopped...

Business

Microsoft Isn’t Firing Journalists, It’s Firing Story Pickers

Tim Worstall - May 30, 2020 3

Dozens of journalists have been sacked after Microsoft decided to replace them with artificial intelligence software. Staff who maintain the news homepages on Microsoft’s MSN...

Economy

The Story of Western Capitalism? Superman III.

Alex Noble - May 30, 2020 1

Shakespeare apparently said there were only seven stories. Maybe that's why so much of what happens in reality can be related back to a film,...

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