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Geoff Norcott @GeoffNorcott · 4h On top of everything, Australia have been humble & self-deprecating. What utter bastards. The post Quote of the Day first appeared on Tim Worstall .

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May isn’t a psychopath; she’d be better at not looking like one if she was. Dongguan John. The post Les mots justes first appeared on Tim Worstall .

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Brexit questions, 3: How many trade deals has the UK signed in the last ten years? How long did each take to conclude, on average? None, trade deals were an EU exclusive competence. Jeez, this ma...

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Cupertino idiot-tax operation junks duff throbbless jazzbangles The post Headline of the day first appeared on Tim Worstall .

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This summer I went to Italy for my summer break. I have always found the food there far better than in France or Britain. I doubt that the credit for that should go to the Italian parliament. Tim...

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There is no substantive difference between the services of a prostitute and a corrupt bureaucrat. Leonid Bershidsky. The post Line of the day first appeared on Tim Worstall .

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The post When the ginger stepkid has to cheer you up you know you’re an outcast first appeared on Tim Worstall .

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If you don’t become seriously anti-poverty when Jesus tells you, I’m not sure David Frum makes much of a difference. The post Nice line first appeared on Tim Worstall .

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Published and true are not synonyms. We all know this about newspapers. But it applies to ”peer reviewd” papers too. The post Quote of the day first appeared on Tim Worstall .

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The optimal organization for a family is communist, but this doesn’t generalize to large societies, a point that most leftists can’t fathom. But as with any other organisational method scale ...

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The biggest-ever experiment in back-to-the-land hippie lifestyle is now known as the Dark Ages. Matt Ridley. The post Word first appeared on Tim Worstall .

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The difference between a contemporary liberal and a socialist is that to a liberal the most beautiful word in the English language is ”forbidden”, whereas to a socialist the most beautiful wo...

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I think that a failure of statistical thinking is the major intellectual shortcoming of our universities, journalism and intellectual culture. Cognitive psychology tells us that the unaided human...

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”We’re living in primate heaven. We’re warm, dry, we’re not hungry, we don’t have fleas and ticks and infections. So why are we so miserable?” Stephen Pinker The post Quite first a...

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On Friday, the earl contacted The Daily Telegraph to distance himself from his barrister’s comments and insisted he was by no means ”down and out”. In fact, he added, he was ”merely down ...

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the implications of the Greeks making a drachma out of a crisis The post Line of the day first appeared on Tim Worstall .

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Here. The post Twitter of the day first appeared on Tim Worstall .

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My mum used to say to me, ”If somebody doesn’t like you, fuck ’em, they’ve got bad taste.” Bob Hoskins. The post Quote of the Day first appeared on Tim Worstall .

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”How would Adam Smith fix a mess such as the current recessionary aftermath of a financial collapse? Sorry, but it’s fixed already. The answer to a decline in the value of speculative assets ...

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No, my actual (rather small) point is that when the aspirational poor were previously shunted to distant dumping grounds, the biggest error was in not sending us far enough away from people like ...

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