Tim Worstall

I think I had better think through the answer to that question in greater detail than I have before.

James Watt, who co-founded BrewDog with friend Martin Dickie in 2007, has previously said that he was left “heartbroken” by the brewer’s collapse.

In The Guardian!

No, noooo: Brazil’s president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, has announced a 15% increase in the country’s main cash-transfer programme for poor families, as well as free weight-loss jabs, prompting criticism from opponents who say the moves are electorally…

Germany’s finance minister, Lars Klingbeil, called on ‌the European Commission at a meeting of EU finance ministers in Dublin on Friday to propose possible ways to tax what he described as the excessive profits of oil companies.

If pursued, this programme might reduce the current scale of bond sales by the Bank of England, which could, as a consequence, slightly ease upward pressure on interest rates, but by very little.

The founder of Addison Lee owes £20.5m in tax after a tribunal dismissed a claim that he should be treated as a nom-dom despite living in the UK since childhood.

Our latest work on this subject is one part a pragmatic attempt to come up with an ethical framework to guide the space, and one part a worrisome empirical finding.

The process is so cumbersome that even people who are literate and have institutional and organisational support can struggle to establish their eligibility.

Governments create money when they spend.

A PR campaign to discredit a judge and thus get a court decision overturned?

The human race contains some right ones: Here it’s mostly middle-aged men in “lifted” pickup trucks, which have been modified to be as loud and smoky as possible.

Or mrely ill-informed I guess: Fiji has declared a national HIV emergency amid a spike in infections as the Pacific nation grapples with a correlating rise in methamphetamine use.

Climate crisis likely behind devastating Nepal-Tibet floods that killed more than 1,300, first study finds Scientists say global heating was a destabilising factor in collapse of 200,000 sq metre glacier in August Climate breakdown probably weakened the g…

Common Weal has appointed a panel of experts, including lawyer and former SNP MP Joanna Cherry and Professor Richard Murphy, to address a raft of concerns the think tank believes the independence movement has so far failed to answer.

Solanum starts out by insisting that the only real form of money is modern fiat.

So – no, no point in revealing where to – but a three day trip.

A government scheme vowing to clamp down on migrant student loan cheats has failed to recover a single penny of taxpayers’ money, The Telegraph can reveal.

The government’s “one in, one out” deal is costing about £56,000 for every person sent back to France, Shabana Mahmood has told MPs.

The Telegraph and Reform UK are facing claims of undermining public interest journalism and eroding trust between reporters and politicians, after Nigel Farage’s party gave the newspaper stories first uncovered by other outlets.

Singapore is paying its citizens to pick up a book for at least 15 minutes a day in an effort to fight the rise of doomscrolling.

But campaigners rejected the CCC’s plan of relying on nascent technologies to wipe out the impact of an expansion that would commit the UK to much higher emissions for decades, and called on ministers to halt all airport expansion.

Capitalism is an economic system built on a simple but rarely questioned assumption, which is that capital has the ultimate claim on the financial rewards an enterprise generates.

There is no easy way out of the QE mess.

The incoming ‘super’ El Niño will create chaos around the world – and we are far from ready for it Bill McGuire One of the biggest upheavals in a millennium is on its way, strengthened by the climate crisis.

The Energy Transfer site, located near the city of Shreveport, is named as the biggest single “super emitter” in new rankings of US oil and gas operations for the largest releases of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas that is rapidly overheating our plane…

Andy Burnham’s government could thwart Reform’s unprecedented £72m donations with retrospective restrictions on political donors that will include tough new residency requirements, ministers have announced.

How enslavement became state-backed operation supported by Conservative and Lib Dem forerunners Of course, no one backing Labour – or the Greens – was involved.

The Conservatives went from a comfortable majority in 2019 to their worst defeat in the party’s history in July 2024, reduced to 121 seats.

Mainstream economic theory frequently starts from the assumption that people pursue their own self-interest.

The new, new, idea.

Until it’s time to celebrate it, obviously: Twenty-five years after 9/11, two pieces of journalism, describing two different phenomena in contemporary New York, tell us a great deal about a city, and indeed a world, caught between two eras.

“How do we live in a world where monetising a women’s body and sexualising women’s sport is still a thing?”

In total, the historians identified 13,000 people who were investors in the British slave trade, So that’s who to pursue for the reparations then, not the country as a whole and in general.

The kings and queens who powered the trafficking most ferociously were those after the monarchy was restored in 1660.

A second Green Party deputy leader is a landlord, despite the party previously claiming she was not, The Telegraph can reveal.

Anthropic founder calls for global AI slowdown amid fears of risk to humanity Market leader facing competition wants that competition to be hangstrung.

Nowak warns that social media algorithms are “driving divisive politics” and should be curbed to protect democracy.

With the palace reservicing stripped out of the grant, it is now 65% higher in real terms than in 2016-17.

I have been thinking about something that is so obvious within conventional accounting that almost no one thinks to question it.

A bipartisan pair of American politicians is telling Britain’s most secretive court to stop hiding its handling of Apple’s legal fight against a government demand to break into its customers’ encrypted data, warning that Whitehall’s taste for secrecy is “…

A government spokesperson said: “We have been clear from the start that the proceeds of the sale of Chelsea FC must be used for humanitarian causes in Ukraine.

Some people who have no desire to understand modern monetary theory, like Ann Pettifor, for example, suggest this is what MMT proposes, when nothing could be further from the truth.

Esther Rantzen now ‘too physically fragile’ to end her life in Switzerland If she dies while in transport isn’t that job done?

Rising global temperatures caused by the burning of fossil fuels are transforming the world’s forests, wetlands and tundra to the point they are releasing emissions that could further worsen global heating by as much as 30%, a new study has found.

Why do this?

Our natural resources were ravaged during the colonial period, leaving us one of the most vulnerable regions in the world in relation to the climate crisis and extreme weather events.

Instagram’s chief executive has said users will have a worse experience in an algorithm-free world, seeing more brand-related content, and spend less time on the app.

You can’t say it would be a huge surprise if a leading figure of the British far right turned out to be a fraudster: that whole strand of politics is, after all, a con job preying on angry citizens who are daft enough to believe that immigrants, and not t…

A rapid global shift to clean electricity could trigger a “cascade” of progress towards repairing the damage to the planet by the climate crisis, according to a report identifying the environmental solutions most likely to bring about change.