Tim Worstall writes, "You know the Bolivarian Revolution is toast when...". His criteria for Bolivarian toastiness is "when even the Guardian is running reports on how socialism makes the food supply go tits up." He links to a Guardian article about the "economic war" launched by Chavez in Venezuela which does indeed make it sound as if Chavez has defied reality once too often. Trouble is, as The ...

Booker’s misunderstandings, like his commentary in general, are not original – in this case they come second-hand from the former Ukip press officer-turned-blogger Tim Worstall, whose complaint on the Adam Smith Institute blog is entitled “Perhaps Decc would like to do their sums again“. Worstall’s problem is that he “can’t find the price assumptions they

Tim Worstall is going to eat your babies, and your kittens. Or at least that's pretty much what the disgusting, socialist moron, Richard Murphy, seems to think. Tim is a clever chap, I will not dispute it. There is, however, something very unpleasant about his methods. He tries to engage as a reasonable person on this blog, and then goes back to his own blog, hurls abuse and waits for his sycophan...

The Guardian reports on yet another disastrous Government IT project, via Tim Worstall: "Ministers have admitted that nearly 200,000 school and college students are still waiting for study grants three weeks into term following the collapse of a new software...

Dear Ms. Benn, Your recent Guardian column is headlined: “A covert war on schools. Behind Gove’s new agenda, the state school system is being persistently undermined” Yes, this is the fucking point of it all. yours etc. Tim Worstall

The latest ONS study on life expectancies has brought out the special pleaders. Tim Worstall deals with the geography argument. One academic, a Dr Simon Szreter, professor of history and public policy at Cambridge University, puts this (spurious, as Tim shows) North-South divide down to “class”. Life expectancy has a long-standing correlation with social class and income.In previous ce...

There is, however, another reason for not engaging further. I note some of the rather offensive comments on Tim’s blog. I am quite sure neither Dennis or I would allow such ad hominem attacks, all unfounded. But Tim comes from a very different part of the political and, might I say it, social spectrum. Tim

When in my teens, in the 1960s, I wondered what rules were best for governing the world, and the nations in the world. Comparisons like this (featured by Tim Worstall at the ASI blog today, he having come upon it here) helped me to decide: As Tim Worstall notes: [T]he countries are matched as to rough starting point before the communist armies marched, matched roughly as to culture and so on, and ...

Must, be, Richard Murphy tells me so. Our latest comment call and response: “. It is impossible to suppose that a man who can argue (as you did in the Guardian, very recently) that “Things in markets are worth what the markets say they are worth” is a true heir of Smith,” I fear that you have failed

Vanessa Neumann, a self-confessed product of Venezuela's maligned "oligarchy", writes to The Guardian letters with some facts to prove Chavez is the dictatorial monster The Guardian seems determined to portray him as. In the comments section, though, it would appear Ms Neumann (and The Guardian) have been rumbled.... I live in the US and read The Guardian because I cannot stand the biased US ...