Tim Congdon

‘Higher-rate taxpayers will just move to tax havens when the 50 per cent rate is introduced in April 2010’

‘Far from rescuing the world, Brown and his associates caused a sudden downturn of extreme severity and wrecked the British banking system’

‘The effects of throwing money at a large number of apparently deserving causes are self-cancelling’

‘Nowadays, little is heard of Ralph Hawtrey, whereas Keynes is revered as if he were an intellectual pop star’

‘Why should the Beckhams and Rooneys of corporate finance be penalised, but not the Beckhams and Rooneys of football?’

‘George Soros has won the first few rounds, so must I now eat my words?’

‘Gordon Brown needs to be warned that everyone, even Prime Ministers, must obey the law’

‘If we are buying carpets, we are suspicious. When it comes to really big decisions, we ought to be equally suspicious’

‘By the 2030s China will have an economic weight two or three times that of America, its nearest rival’