Junksmith has always wanted to holiday in Switzerland, but everyone tells him it's too expensive. Well, now there may be a solution. Zero-star hotel anyone?
"Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism, but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice" - Adam Smith
Junksmith has always wanted to holiday in Switzerland, but everyone tells him it's too expensive. Well, now there may be a solution. Zero-star hotel anyone?
He may seem rather hapless as chancellor of the exchequer, but it turns out Alistair Darling has a secret plan. The Daily Mash has the details...
It would appear that Scotland and Wales are developing countries according to a councillor of the Fairtrade town of Garstang.
Postal workers are being made to walk faster. Junksmith wonders whether this is a new public health inititative to cut obesity.
On this day in 1984, Gorbachev's successful visit to Britain. How things have changed.
We have a late contender for pun of the year from Reuters.
If you were dreaming of a spin-free Christmas, you are going to be very much disappointed.
The American businessman was down on his luck. His business was failing, he'd had to sell everything, he was staring bankruptcy in the face. He asked his local priest for advice: "What shall I do, Father?"
"Obey the word of God," said the priest. "Go home, open the Bible to any page you like, start reading, and take heart from what you read."
Next Sunday the businessman was back, buy in a shiny new Cadillac, sporting a gold Rolex and a handmade Amarni suit. "What on earth happened?" asked the priest.
"I did what you said, Father," he replied. "I took out the Bible and turned to a page at random. The answer was staring me in the face: 'Chapter 11'."
The Adam Smith Institute is the UK’s leading libertarian think tank...
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