The “ideal wife“, he once argued, was “a beauty queen from Playboy who spoke no known language, ever.”
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TimWorstall 1 day ago (via timworstall.com)
It is rare that a political party is handed an issue that enables it to rally its base, appeal to swing voters and put the other side on the back foot. But that is how much of a gift to the Tories these strikes are. There has been a bit of an enthusiasm deficit amongst Tory activists and traditional Tories more generally ever since David Cameron recalibrated the party's European policy follow...
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Spectator 1 day ago (via spectator.co.uk)
Billy Wolfe, the former SNP leader who oversaw the party's best ever general election performance, has died aged 86.
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Telegraph 1 day ago (via telegraph.co.uk)
Someone who actually knows what they’re talking about says: Sorry Richard, but while I don’t agree with Tim Worstall on much stuff – particularly his hatred of the European project, and greater backing of tax evasion than I would support – I have never, ever, ever read an argument of yours that managed
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TimWorstall 2 days ago (via timworstall.com)
I'm returning to my theme of yesterdays post, but via Jeff Randall's opinion article in today's Telegraph where he accuses Labour of infantilising the electorate. The long and short of Jeff's argument is that Labour lead people to think they could have their cake and eat it in 97. Ever since then they have pretended ( with all the dark arts they discovered to get themselves ele...
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“But I’m a relaxed person, so I don’t give a shit what people think.” Perhaps temporary marriage ain’t the best thing ever but as long as a country has women who think and act that way it’s going to get better.
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TimWorstall 3 days ago (via timworstall.com)
Could you vote for Piers Morgan? In an interview with Freddy Gray in The Spectator tomorrow, he says he's tempted to stand for Parliament - and it's not such a surprise. He has weirdly inserted himself in the political process in recent weeks, defining Nick "no more than 30" Clegg and giving Gordon Brown probably the best piece of television coverage he will receive - ever. Now...
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Spectator 3 days ago (via spectator.co.uk)
W process of technocratic economic management signed into law under the Maastricht treaty, under a particular set of economic conditions which the then policy makers assumed would last for ever, is now adding to an already considerable burden on people who did not make the crisis, and did not gain from the booms that caused it. As a result there is a real possibility of major social unrest in many...
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