Tim Worstall Tim Worstall

Another victim of the minimum wage

The mother of a severely autistic man who volunteered at Waitrose for four years has said she is “heartbroken” that he was stopped from working there after the family asked for him to be paid.

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Madsen Pirie Madsen Pirie

Private spaceflight is on its way

I was the first person in the UK to book (late last century) a suborbital flight with Space Adventures, the company that flew private billionaires to the International Space Station.

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Madsen Pirie Madsen Pirie

Bring on AI

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the defining force of the fourth Industrial Revolution, following the revolutions driven by mechanical power (steam), electrical power, and digital computing.

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Tim Worstall Tim Worstall

It’s strange that Polly doesn’t really understand politics.

The day after Trump’s election victory was certified by an electoral vote tally in Congress, Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg announced that, starting with the US, the company would “get rid of factcheckers and replace them with community notes similar to X”.

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Tim Worstall Tim Worstall

We’d rate this as piffle

The capitalists are gouging the staff, watering the workers’ beer and ain’t it all a shame the whole world over.

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