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...

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 ...

Nouriel Roubini, Larry Elliott, George Soros, and…..Tim Worstall! Tim Worstall, a fellow of the Adam Smith Institute, writing his column on Forbes says he has been predicting the euro’s demise since before its creation. He writes: “As I’ve been saying for years, the euro is bound to fall over, the euro will inevitably fail as

I think this has the potential for serialisation, so consider this the 2nd in a new series 'Macro-economics with Tim Worstall'. The title will be my attempt to decipher what he is saying. No.1, here: Left-wingers believe that raising the price of petrol has no impact on its consumption. No.2 If a company alters the price of its goods in a country with a fixed exchange rate that system ha...

I am honoured! Tim Worstall is a man of the highest opinion, of himself. How kind of you to say so Richard. As far as I can tell he thinks almost everyone I know who has ever written anything is wrong. It’s a position he might sustain if he was forever correct. Unfortunately Tim fails in that objective. There are

"A short-term nationalisation of the banking sector may well be both necessary and the right thing to do." -- Tim Worstall (the 'straight' line in an otherwise 'satirical' piece in today's Times) Like dogs, free markets aren't just for Christmas, Tim.

I’ve been following the recent spat between Tim Worstall, Devil’s Kitchen and Richard Murphy with detached amusement – in part because Worstall and DK are more than capable of holding their own against such a buffoon as Murphy. While it provided some light entertainment, it seems that Murphy has now called it a day, but

Clearly I’m getting under the man’s skin. Good. I note that Tim Worstall is persisting in his claims that my methodology used in the TUC report,  The Missing Billions, is flawed. It is flawed. Worstall’s argument appears entirely dependent upon rhetoric. If ever there was a man to split hairs it is him. I am reasonably confident if

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