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Undercover EconomistTim Harford
Why we’re all a bit like Jasmin Paris
...Because performance is difficult and I flatter myself that I’m good at it. It’s a pleasure to be fully absorbed in the challenge of doing a hard thing well....
April 5, 2024
Undercover EconomistTim Harford
Why the UK’s biscuit tax leaves a bad taste in the mouth
...I’m not joking.) Perhaps the next government will fancy a systematic redesign of the tax system, but the political rewards probably lie elsewhere....
March 29, 2024
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival
Where the FT Weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 7 September London, UK
ReviewMusic
Killer Mike, rap’s compassionate capitalist: ‘I’m not a millionaire to make you feel bad’
...Mike and his wife Shana Render have four children ranging in age from 16 to 29....
November 17, 2023
Undercover EconomistTim Harford
For new year’s resolutions, is it better to add or subtract?
...Tim Harford’s new book for children, ‘The Truth Detective’ (Wren & Rook), is now available Follow @FTMag to find out about our latest stories first...
January 5, 2024
Chess
US Championship start sparks Bobby Fischer memories
...Puzzle 2541 White to move and win (by M Eisenstadt). Click here for solution...
October 9, 2023
FT SeriesBest books of the year 2023
Best books of 2023: from our stable
...The Truth Detective: How to Make Sense of a World That Doesn’t Add Up by Tim Harford (Wren & Rook)With the help of a cast of characters from Sherlock Holmes to Florence Nightingale, the FT Undercover Economist...
November 18, 2023
FT Live
Business of Art
Market shifts and future growth
Monday, 7 October180 Studios, London, UK
Undercover EconomistTim Harford
The UK is going about reclaiming city streets the wrong way
...I’m not sure, but the question needs addressing. Different choices are possible....
August 11, 2023
Undercover EconomistTim Harford
The inconvenient truth about productivity
...If you keep looking at incoming emails and thinking, “Hm, I’m not sure what to make of that,” you’ll eventually get to 400,000....
August 4, 2023
Undercover EconomistTim Harford
What I’d put in my Museum of the Economy
...I’m not sure how one would put “the welfare state” in a museum. Perhaps a waxwork of William Beveridge would do?...
July 14, 2023
Jonathan Guthrie
Corvids: smarter than the average chatbot?
...The successful result with crows, jays and rooks is the same....
July 28, 2023
Undercover EconomistTim Harford
Is it even possible to prepare for a pandemic?
...I’m sympathetic to these views, but here’s a question: who was well prepared, not with hindsight but before the pandemic?...
June 23, 2023
Undercover EconomistTim Harford
Will ChatGPT be Homer Simpson’s salvation?
...Tim Harford’s children’s book, “The Truth Detective” (Wren & Rook), is now available Follow @FTMag on Twitter to find out about our latest stories first Letter in response to this article: The existential...
June 2, 2023
Undercover EconomistTim Harford
The eternal Google search for truth
...I suspect I’m not alone....
July 7, 2023
Chess
Ding Liren captures world crown after dramatic tie-break
...Ding said: “I’m relieved. The moment Ian resigned the game was very emotional. I could not control my moods and feelings, and burst into tears....
May 1, 2023
The Starmer Project
Reeves embraces ‘Bidenomics’ as blueprint for a Labour government
...“It’s like we are a rook up on move 30,” she added. “But we’re playing an opponent who usually beats us.”...
May 23, 2023
FT Live
Business of Entertainment Summit
Capitalizing on Disruption
Thursday, 19 SeptemberLos Angeles, CA
Undercover EconomistTim Harford
What Rishi Sunak got wrong about maths
...The essay that the student handed in began, “I’m sorry, but as an AI language model, I am not able to complete this assignment....
May 5, 2023
FT MagazineTim Harford
What Mystic Meg can teach us about economic forecasting
...I’m not sure if the astrologer “Mystic Meg” was ever respectable, but she was certainly much loved....
March 24, 2023
Undercover EconomistTim Harford
The enshittification of apps is real. But is it bad?
...Nevertheless, I’m quite sure enshittification is real. The basic idea was sketched out in economic literature in the 1980s, before the world wide web existed....
March 3, 2023
Undercover EconomistTim Harford
Why chatbots are bound to spout bullshit
...I’m not qualified to speculate on that question, but one thing is clear enough: there is plenty of demand for bullshit in the world and, if it’s cheap enough, it will be supplied in enormous quantities....
February 10, 2023
Transcript
Ukraine’s digital war. Plus: how computers changed chess
...Rook [inaudible] . . . Oh my gosh. He put it on the worst square. The worst possible square because the rook can’t block . . . Lilah RaptopoulosThey’re mad (laughter)....
August 20, 2022
UK immigration
UK public urged to open homes to Ukrainian refugees
...“Every single element of this has been mishandled and I’m not convinced that the relevant departments are actually working together properly on this,” he said....
March 11, 2022
FT Magazine
Enter the inner sanctum of elite chess
...Now here’s what could happen if that rook were to come to a3....
July 28, 2022
FT MagazineWomen in 2019: the game changers
Actor Emma Thompson: ‘I’m not hearing the voices I want to hear at all’
...“I don’t know, it’s all such a mess, if I’m frank....
December 5, 2019
FT SeriesParis Art Scene 2019
Fiac art fair director Jennifer Flay on the challenges ahead
...“I’m not responsible for any rivalry between Fiac and Frieze. I think we can coexist, that’s always been my aim,” Flay opines....
October 11, 2019
FT Magazine
Don McCullin on photographing war — and collecting antiques
...Looking through the windscreen, we could see rooks circling overhead. “It’s like an old woodcut isn’t it?” he says. “The birds in the wind and the naked trees.”...
January 17, 2020

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