Tim Worstall (born 27 March 1963, Torquay) is an English writer and blogger, who writes about a variety of topics, but particularly about economics. In his day job, he works as a consultant and dealer in scandium and other exotic metals.[1] He occasionally and humorously refers to himself in his blog and articles as a member of the "international scandium oligopoly."
Worstall has written a blog since April 2004.[2] The blog received approximately one million visits in the year to August 2006. It had a worldwide readership in that period, though most of the visits came from the United States and Europe.[3]
Two of Worstall's articles about the 7 July 2005 London bombings have been archived by the UK Web Archiving Consortium.[4]
Worstall has written regularly for the online magazine TCS Daily since May 2004.[5] In a 23 June 2005 article, he coined Worstall's Law of Organizations: "All and any organizations will in the end be run by those who stay awake in committee." [6]
In November 2005, Worstall compiled the book 2005 Blogged: Dispatches from the Blogosphere, an anthology of blogging.
Since September 2006, Worstall has been a contributor to The Philadelphia Inquirer's "Editorials & Commentary" page[7]
Worstall was the press officer for UK Independence Party in the year running up to the 2009 euro elections.
In 2010, Worstall wrote the book Chasing Rainbows: Economic Myths, Environmental Facts, which examines what we should be doing to avoid, curtail or adapt to global warming.
He lives in Portugal with his wife.