Swedish economist ( a sound one: they exist) and all-round good guy, Johan Norberg, is in Tbilisi, Georgia to chat about economic reform, but it’s not all wonkery:

When Georgians do things, they apparently take it seriously. Yesterday at dinner we were entertained by dancers who attacked one another with swords. Quite aggressive and very impressive. And the Georgian prime minister Zurab Nogaideli gave a speech a la Castro – long, hopeful and filled with statistics and ambitions. But with a different sort of ambition, of course. He basically said that Georgia was going to become the most free trade-oriented country in the world and explained why corruption among the traffic policemen made him fire every single one of them. And even though Russia has stopped their exports, Georgia will grow by almost 10 percent this year. If I remember it correctly, the prime minister´s plan for privatisation went something like this: Sell all government companies. Sell all government assets. And afterwards, the dancers attacked one another again. Sounds like fun.