Tim Worstall is an Englishman who has failed at many things. Thus his turn to writing, the last refuge of many who could make a living no other way. He is, as an example of his business and financial perspicacity, the head of the international scandium oligopoly: the only commodity which has not risen in price in the past decade. Odd bits and pieces of his writing have been known to turn up in The Times, the book pages of the Daily Telegraph and the Philadelphia Inquirer, he’s been a long term contributor to TCS Daily and also blogs for The Business and the Adam Smith Institute. He is currently only 6 months late (Sept 2007) with his book manuscript.
As to his views, well, read the blog.
Best blogging moment so far: being called a "pendant" by Polly Toynbee. Not, as he thought, an ornament to be cherished and hugged to one’s bosom, but something close to a tit.
11 responses so far ↓
1 P // Oct 3, 2007 at 1:22 pm
Enjoy the blog and the new web page but when scrolling down the page the middle column where the text is displayed is gradually getting narrower resulting in text at the lhs and rhs being cropped.
Browser is IE6.
2 Stephen // Oct 9, 2007 at 12:44 pm
I also see it on IE6. Simple solution: Firefox!
3 Vladimir Belenkovich // Oct 11, 2007 at 1:40 am
Hi, Tim!
I searched for your name om impulse after watching Crossroads movie with a lot of Ry Cooder music. Then all in sudden I realized that it was Tim who told me about Ry Cooder and many other things.
I googled and here we go. Tim is alive and kicking as a star of blogosphere now.
But of course. I should have guessed myself.
Let me know when you are in Moscow next time.
4 jonathan // Oct 16, 2007 at 4:58 pm
Just want to second the above comment. The creeping of the margins is making the blog unreadable.
5 SJH // Oct 18, 2007 at 6:05 pm
Ditto, on margins. Fix it, please
6 MG // Oct 28, 2007 at 12:05 pm
Very enjoyable blog BUT the problem with the creeping margin is making it unreadable. Can this be fixed?
7 James // Oct 31, 2007 at 11:40 am
I used to read the blog all the time, but the creeping margin now means I can’t.
8 jonathan // Oct 31, 2007 at 1:33 pm
Any news on the margins? The blog is unreadable at the moment which is a shame.
9 Stu // Jan 26, 2008 at 9:51 pm
I was just reading “Environmental Idiocy of the Day : Jeremy Leggett Edition” in The Business.
Sorry Tim, but you really have completely missed Leggett’s point here - as is revealed by the fact that you seem to think it’s some kind of scoop to reveal that he runs a solar energy business!
If this is your normal standard of journalism we’ll need to design a system to capture the carbon dioxide from the huge volumes of noxious hot air you produce.
10 Tom Burnett // Jan 29, 2008 at 9:31 pm
“Tim Worstall is an Englishman who has failed at many things. Thus his turn to writing, the last refuge of many who could make a living no other way.”
Tim, according to your website text, you must be dead broke and starving by now because you even failed at writing! Dude, you are a sad, pathetic loser and I’m sure right now you are in some bar having your morning cup of Vodka aren’t you?
Your Blog regarding Randy Salerno is a complete misuse of the Internet and makes me want to have it regulated to prevent morons like you from writing hurtful and disgusting dribble like this. Your Blog said nothing significant but it said everything about the kind of person you have become in your life. It was a deliberate attempt to be an Asshole but don’t despair Tim, it’s the one thing in your life you have succeed on becoming. Go back to England, you jerk-off, loser of an asshole. America does not need or want you here.
11 floods // Apr 23, 2008 at 2:13 am
“Hi, my name is Tim…blogs are cool, cause then I can pretend I am a writer.”
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