Tim Worstall

It’s such a gloriously fun occupation, isn’t it?

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Someone I know met someone we all know by reputation today. His verdict was succinct: Yes, pompous little prat.

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Worstall has appeared occasionally on the Zelo Street radar as he has cheered on Nigel “Thirsty” Farage and UKIP, denounced Warren Buffet as a “liar” for being of inconvenient opinion, and told how the CP, which operates train services in his adopted country of Portugal, has sent its rolling stock to the UK for refurbishment, [...]

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This was and is Ms. Solent’s point about the whole thing. Mr Sumner’s blog not only revealed his market monetarism to the world at large (“I cannot go anywhere in the world of economics…without hearing his name,” says Mr Cowen). It also drew together like-minded economists, many of them at small schools some distance from [...]

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So Sunny posts this graph about the workers’ wages. He then tells us that: show that right-wing ‘ideas’ on growth only involve attack workers wages So let’s just walk out way through this timeline, shall we? So we see a drop in the workers’ wages under Callaghan (Labour) then the workers’ wages start to rise [...]

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The narrative across much of the Westminster media, who know little about economics …..

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The Minimum Income Standard found that: basic out-of-work benefits provide well under half of the minimum income (net of rent and council tax) required for an adult with no children, and somewhat less than two-thirds for families with children. If the government goes ahead with this, the number of children in poverty – already due [...]

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Tsk.

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Because I said so, of course. What other reason do you need?

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Lucky man has found paradise on this earth. Bastard, of course. How dare he when we haven’t/can’t/ inequality of happiness etc etc cont. pg 94 Grauniad

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Post gone for complicated reasons that have convinced me.

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Cision Frontline Breakfast: come and meet the UK’s superstar bloggers Rightie ho. Who then? Dale? Guido? Sunny? Will Straw? Mumsnet? Who? Alex Powis – The Daily Street Alex writes for urban fashion and culture blog, The Daily Street – with particular focus on the music industry, being a DJ and producer. The Daily Street discusses [...]

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Ahem.

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1) Both Marie Stopes and BPAS are not-for-profit organisations. By definition they have no financial interest in women having more abortions. Sunny seems to think that making a profit is the only possible financial interest that anyone could have. The Tory Party is a not for profit organisation but I’m pretty sure he’d think that [...]

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Pop over to Tom Paine’s.

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Whilst I usually breeze through these landmark birthdays, this time it hurt. Truth to tell I’m pissed at turning 60. They say 60 is the new 50, but almost overnight I appear to have morphed into a grumpy, white-haired doppelganger of Spencer Tracy, circa Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner. I’m not a happy bunny. The [...]

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Might work, might not….we’ll know more when he’s done more than just announce himself.

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I just realised that plenty of mainstream US Democrats, having spent the last however long castigating people to the left of them for perceiving some progressive tendencies in the government of Fidel Castro, are now reduced to supporting the re-election of a President who imprisons people without human rights in Cuba, but who has made [...]

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Here and here.

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