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FT columnist, BBC journalist, author, host of Cautionary Tales, professional nerd.
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Le Mans 1955: The deadliest race timharford.com/2025/06/caut... #CautionaryTalesPod

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TACO - the trade that ate itself. (In which I try to unravel the Escher fever-dream of self-referential prophecies) www.ft.com/content/91e8...

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What does it take to stand up to tyranny? What does moral courage look like? Channelling @rutgerbregman.com timharford.com/2025/06/what...

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Le Mans 1955: The deadliest race timharford.com/2025/06/caut... #CautionaryTalesPod

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TACO - the trade that ate itself. (In which I try to unravel the Escher fever-dream of self-referential prophecies) www.ft.com/content/91e8...

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What does it take to stand up to tyranny? What does moral courage look like? Channelling @rutgerbregman.com timharford.com/2025/06/what...

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Liar, bigamist, brute - how Isaac Singer liberated women. (The latest #CautionaryTalesPod for Pushkin+ subscribers.) timharford.com/2025/06/caut...

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Liar, bigamist, brute - how Isaac Singer liberated women. (The latest #CautionaryTalesPod for Pushkin+ subscribers.) timharford.com/2025/06/caut...

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“You can tell a lot about a person's character by how they treat people they don't have to treat well.” So how in hell did we get to the idea of heroes who use torture? fabledlands.blogspot.com/2025/06/forg...

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Fantastic storytelling advice - with many telling examples - from @davemorris.bsky.social realdavemorris.substack.com/p/patterns-i...

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Fantastic storytelling advice - with many telling examples - from @davemorris.bsky.social realdavemorris.substack.com/p/patterns-i...

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Cautionary Tales - the Nazis, the Bomb, and the Woman that Science Forgot timharford.com/2025/06/caut...

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What a philosopher teaches us about the corrosiveness of modern commerce - and about fishing. on.ft.com/3HvfGtK

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Cautionary Tales - the Nazis, the Bomb, and the Woman that Science Forgot timharford.com/2025/06/caut...

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What a philosopher teaches us about the corrosiveness of modern commerce - and about fishing. on.ft.com/3HvfGtK

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The zero-sum mindset is no mystery... timharford.com/2025/06/the-...

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This week's episode is a Cautionary Questions special with @natesilver538.tweet.pub and @mkonnikova.bsky.social . Give politicians a raise, smuggle phones into school, and go FULL DONK! timharford.com/2025/05/caut...

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🌮 👂🏼 POD TIME 👂🏼 🌮 Me and @robarmstrong.bsky.social on: - 🌮 Rob's increasingly uncomfortable 15 minutes of fame 🌮 - lessons from the vomiting camel phenom - will the "nasty" Taco Trade eat itself? - are the tariffs off anyway? open.spotify.com/episode/3REq...

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Can we 'nudge' our way to higher growth? on.ft.com/3HfJqul

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Beware the Giffen-ish rollercoaster of the money markets... timharford.com/2025/05/bewa...

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Cautionary Tales - Roosevelt and the Renegade timharford.com/2025/05/caut...

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Am I boring you? Good on.ft.com/3YYQMsb

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Am I boring you? Good on.ft.com/3YYQMsb

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Seven truths about trade: timharford.com/2025/05/seve... (When the FT published this a month ago, it really struck a chord with lots of people. ICYMI, enjoy.)

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Cautionary Tales - Roosevelt and the Renegade timharford.com/2025/05/caut...

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"Cardinal Scriberi Nascosto in Selentium sent the bowl to Great Schema Kalanthes in Tamor, rivalries across the schism of the Church being much more heartfelt than between wholly different religions." A No-Prize if you identify where the floor plan is from. fabledlands.blogspot.com/2025/05/the-...

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Seven truths about trade: timharford.com/2025/05/seve... (When the FT published this a month ago, it really struck a chord with lots of people. ICYMI, enjoy.)

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Cautionary Tales: The Panama Disaster (part 1) timharford.com/2025/05/caut...

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That time they accidentally pulled out the plug on the Chesterfield canal... timharford.com/2025/05/the-...

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Robert E. Howard's "The God in the Bowl" as an #RPG scenario. (With #DragonWarriors stats and optional #Legend setting.) fabledlands.blogspot.com/2025/05/the-...

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Cautionary Tales: The Panama Disaster (part 1) timharford.com/2025/05/caut...

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When the Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan appear, what kind of person stands up to them? on.ft.com/4dhIyRL

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That time they accidentally pulled out the plug on the Chesterfield canal... timharford.com/2025/05/the-...

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Happy Birthday, Florence Nightingale! Y'all might enjoy the Cautionary Tales episode, "Florence Nightingale and her Geeks Declare War on Death" timharford.com/2021/03/caut...

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The zero-sum mindset is no mystery: on.ft.com/44vZbH9

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Donald Trump vs Mr Market timharford.com/2025/05/dona...

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Donald Trump vs Mr Market timharford.com/2025/05/dona...

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The zero-sum mindset is no mystery: on.ft.com/44vZbH9

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Cautionary Tales - Lab Leak: Could Smallpox come back? timharford.com/2025/05/caut...

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Homo Deceptus - science's dirty little secret: timharford.com/2025/05/caut...

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Winnie The Pooh's guide to living without The Donald: timharford.com/2025/05/how-...

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Homo Deceptus - science's dirty little secret: timharford.com/2025/05/caut...

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Of potatoes, rollercoasters, and the dollar: on.ft.com/4iKE9rN

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Of potatoes, rollercoasters, and the dollar: on.ft.com/4iKE9rN

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Cautionary Tales - "Dangerously near to absolute perfection" timharford.com/2025/05/caut...

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Welcome to Brexitland, US, in which waywardness is described as "strategic uncertainty", restrictions on trade boost performance and self harm is lauded.... Spoiler, it does not end happily www.ft.com/content/342d...

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Predictions - not always about the future: timharford.com/2025/05/pred...

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