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  • Friday, 26 May, 2023
    Tim Harford
    What neo-Luddites get right — and wrong — about Big Tech

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    When Wizz Air wrecked the immigration stats

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    One group of people can’t substitute their way out of inflation

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    What Rishi Sunak got wrong about maths

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  • Friday, 28 April, 2023
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    The very good reason not to hold referendums

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    The never-ending brilliance of board games

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    Does winning the lottery actually ruin your life?

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  • Friday, 31 March, 2023
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    Medieval-style ‘ordeals’ become UK government policy

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    Why children can be better at spotting misinformation

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  • Friday, 10 March, 2023
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    Most Budget-day tweaks make the tax system worse

    With each budget, the chancellor shuffles taxes and tries to pull a rabbit out of a hat. This is no way to run an economy

  • Friday, 3 March, 2023
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    The enshittification of apps is real. But is it bad?

    Internet platforms are the latest example of a product destined to go to the dogs

  • Friday, 24 February, 2023
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    Lockdowns are over. WFH isn’t. Why?

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  • Friday, 17 February, 2023
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    Can gamers outplay the rapacious capitalists?

    Role-playing games like Dungeons & Dragons are having a moment in the spotlight – and offer valuable lessons to the rest of the economy

  • Friday, 10 February, 2023
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    Why chatbots are bound to spout bullshit

    Some of what they say is true, but only as a byproduct of learning to seem believable

  • Friday, 3 February, 2023
    Tim Harford
    How to fix the British economy

    The right blames red tape, the left inequality. Both are wrong

  • Friday, 27 January, 2023
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    What Lego can teach us about saving the planet

    A core feature of complex Lego sets holds big lessons for energy projects

  • Friday, 20 January, 2023
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    Is life in the UK really as bad as the numbers suggest? Yes, it is

    The past 15 years have been a disappointment on a scale we could hardly have imagined

  • Friday, 13 January, 2023
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    What economists get wrong about personal finance

    The advice given by academics and by financial self-help gurus is often very different

  • Friday, 6 January, 2023
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    The seven types of email you should never, ever send

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    Tim Harford answers your absurd hypothetical questions

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    Storage is one of the least sexy words around. That’s a problem

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    How to leave Twitter but keep your followers

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    Struck by the power of the simple invention

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