Tim Harford
Lies, damn lies
Statistics are an essentially alien language that humans did not evolve to recognise or understand
Why Britain needs more empty homes
The UK’s housing sector is straining at the seams; empty units and second houses are a sign of economic health
Barking up the wrong tree
Insta-obsessed diners can’t see the food for the reels
Get rid of Rishi
Sunak hanging on can only make things worse for the Conservatives and worse for Britain
The truth is out there
Henry Staunton is dismissed as dangerously “erratic” by the powers that be, but he may just be telling the truth, no matter how weird
Eyes on the prizes
On a dispiriting start to racing’s “Premierisation” era
Dissent is not hatred
We must resist the idea that disagreement with modish beliefs is reducible to ill-feeling
Must we keep failing universities alive?
History is full of institutions which could not justify their own existence
The return of Spencerian liberalism
Richard Hanania is a figure of fun for many, but he represents a broader return to liberalism’s sinister origins
The true lie of the land
Landowners are reviled as enemies of the environment by the Jacobins of the green movement but these Poundland Robespierres are simply blinded by prejudice
Free speech and fashionable hypocrisy
Between the Tory government and the University and College Union, will anyone be consistent?
The wrong kind of groupthink
Why do so many economists deny that the value of money is related to its quantity?
