Tim Worstall

1 day ago | timworstall.com | Tim Worstall

Concern about mass migration is a “terrorist ideology” that requires intervention by the Government’s anti-radicalisation Prevent programme, according to official documents. Up the propaganda, Comrades! Jeez, to make it so obvious. An online training course hosted on the Government’s website for Prevent lists “cultural nationalism” as a belief that could lead to an individual being referred to the deradicalisation scheme.

1 day ago | adamsmith.org | Tim Worstall

The “Great Depression” in the UK was not in fact a depression nor very great. The economy recovered within 18 months so it was a recession. It’s not even necessary for Labour to lose an election. They’ve a sufficient majority to be able to do this themselves. Slash government spending - and yes this does mean benefits -, close the budget deficit, free the building industry to house the nation and we can then repeat that history of the 1930s.

1 day ago | seekingalpha.com | Tim Worstall

This article was written byTim Worstall is a wholesaler of rare earth metals and one of the global experts in the metal scandium. He is also a Fellow at the Adam Smith Inst in London and an writer for a number of media outlets, including The Times (London), Telegraph, The Register and even, very occasionally indeed, for the WSJ.

1 day ago | timworstall.com | Tim Worstall

The US supreme court made it easier on Thursday for people from majority backgrounds such as white or straight individuals to pursue claims alleging workplace “reverse discrimination”, reviving the case of an Ohio woman who claimed that she did not get a promotion at a state agency because she is heterosexual. The justices, in a 9-0 ruling, threw out a lower court‘s decision rejecting a civil rights lawsuit by the plaintiff, Marlean Ames, against her employer, Ohio’s department of youth services.

2 days ago | timworstall.com | Tim Worstall

Telomeres are structures found within chromosomes that play an important role in cellular ageing and DNA integrity, and their degradation is linked to ageing. Telomeres become shorter as humans age. Previous studies have suggested a link between telomere length and chronic diseases, and that acute and chronic stress can reduce telomere length. The study found that children from the high affluence group had telomeres 5% longer on average compared with children from a low affluence group.