Tim Worstall

9 responses so far ↓

• 1 Mr Eugenides // Jan 19, 2008 at 1:36 pm

  And of course yourself, Tim…

• 2 john b // Jan 19, 2008 at 2:00 pm

  British, not English - I don’t think Iain Banks would appreciate that mistake (good to see him on the list though). WTF is Rowling doing there?

• 3 Mathijs van den Bergh // Jan 19, 2008 at 4:54 pm

  If they hadn’t included Rowling, they’d have been accused of elitism (as if a list of greatest writers could be anything but elitist!).

• 4 Little Black Sambo // Jan 19, 2008 at 4:58 pm

  One of the very best users of English was that chap who used to write as Peter Simple.

• 5 Helen // Jan 19, 2008 at 5:31 pm

  “One of the very best users of English was that chap who used to write as Peter Simple.”

  Michael Wharton

• 6 dearieme // Jan 19, 2008 at 7:56 pm

  Was Richmal Crompton on it? If not, it’s baloney. Ditto if Dickens was on it.

• 7 dearieme // Jan 19, 2008 at 7:59 pm

  I’ve ignored your advice, Tim, and had a butcher’s. The “since 1945″ bit you hadn’t mentioned. So I’m wondering, who’s the post ‘45 equivalent of Dickens i.e. the chap whose inclusion proves it to be rubbish?

• 8 Bob Doney // Jan 19, 2008 at 10:03 pm

  No place for Paul Scott

• 9 Tim Almond // Jan 19, 2008 at 11:58 pm

  No Graham Greene, either.

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