I’ve long been slightly intrigued by the Austrian School – a group of economists (based, rather curiously, in Alabama), named after ultraconservative economist Ludwig Von Mises.

Their philosophy is that not only are taxes and government regulations bad, but equality itself is – and there are effectively no circumstances under which governments can be good. For example, they believe government military spending is bad because it crowds out spending on private armies.

Recently, either they or a vicious enemy of theirs (I’m hoping the latter) has produced an Are You An Austrian test. This has a typical ‘political test’ structure, in that nearly all questions have two sensible possible answers and two absolutely deranged possible answers. However, unlike a typical political test, the ‘correct’ answers fall into the deranged category (the other deranged option is Marxism, although being ignorant the Austrians refer to it as “socialism”).

Let’s get Mr Jinx to eat the lot of them…