Tim Worstall Tim Worstall

We don’t do hypothecation and for damn good reason

This is one of those terrible ideas that needs to be stamped upon, hard. Rachel Reeves’s Treasury is looking to keep millions of pounds levied on polluting water companies in fines that were meant to be earmarked for sewage cleanup, the Guardian has learned.

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Tim Worstall Tim Worstall

As we can’t why not stop?

Terrors: In December the ONS pushed back the publication of the overhauled labour market statistics to 2027, the latest of several postponements from spring 2024.

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Tim Worstall Tim Worstall

How glorious that we have such regulators to guide us!

We are told that: The United States on Friday grounded SpaceX’s Starship and ordered Elon Musk’s company to investigate why the spaceship spectacularly disintegrated in a fiery cascade over the Caribbean during its latest test mission.

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Tim Worstall Tim Worstall

The fault is not in our suppliers but ourselves

This is untrue: And rarely have stories named the ultimate authors of this disaster: ExxonMobil, Chevron and other fossil fuel companies that have made gargantuan amounts of money even as they knowingly lied about their products dangerously overheating the planet.

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Maxwell Marlow Maxwell Marlow

(Tax) Breaking the Subsidy Debate

‘Our government is in thrall to private sector greed.’ This is the narrative spun by some tax commentators and outlets like the Ethical Consumer and Paid to Pollute, and given by the mainstream media.

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Tim Worstall Tim Worstall

Over-egging that climate change pudding

This seems rather alarmist: Without urgent action to accelerate decarbonisation, remove carbon from the atmosphere and repair nature, the plausible worst-case hit to global economies would be 50% in the two decades before 2090, the IFoA report said.

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Tim Worstall Tim Worstall

Creating, producing, AI isn’t the point - using it is

Everyone’s terribly excited about the Prime Minister’s conversion to the joys of Artificial Intelligence. As long as everyone remembers how technology actually works then so are we. But that support does depend upon everyone remembering.

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