Tim Harford
Lies, damn lies
Statistics are an essentially alien language that humans did not evolve to recognise or understand
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The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
It is time for antidisestablishmentarianism
Church establishment is still worth fighting for
The Middle Kingdom and the middle powers
China’s clash with Western power shattered its civilisational self-image. Europe is heading for a similar reckoning
Worstall’s Corollary
Rare earths expose a fatal flaw at the heart of industrial strategy: governments intervene in systems they do not remotely understand
Brave new world or fools’ paradise?
For Dubai’s quarter of a million British expats, the Iran war is a mere blip in a luxurious lifestyle
The costs of telling the truth too late
The girl guiding decision is causing pain — so why do activists seek to prolong it?
How the Boat Race sank
Yet another great British tradition is disappearing beneath the waters of history
Smart but ill-suited
Michael Anton was too good for the administrations that he helped to create
Calypso and carnage
A seismic Test series and a harbinger of a new force in Test cricket
The truth about Shakespeare
William Shakespeare was actually a black woman
The imprudence of Dame Prue
Dame Prue Leith is spreading errors about assisted suicide
The price is right
Stories about outrageously profligate eating have the appeal of scandal