A lovely essay by RJ Andrews on lucidity vs luminosity in information design: www.chartography.net/p/clarity-un...

Quite possibly the nerdiest Lunch with the FT we've ever run, featuring the inelastic markets hypothesis, 'econophysics', the Black-Scholes model's weaknesses and several drive-by shootings of economists. www.ft.com/content/6f54...

Cautionary Tales - A Deadly Day at the Races: What Radical Protest Can and Cannot Do timharford.com/2025/09/caut...

Cautionary Tales - A Deadly Day at the Races: What Radical Protest Can and Cannot Do timharford.com/2025/09/caut...

My date with an octopus... timharford.com/2025/09/my-d...

It's Adobe Acrobat that's killing me at the moment. Simply will not let me read or search a PDF without plastering everything with pop-ups insisting I use AI instead...

Not sure quite what happened but a flurry of hugely generous donations in support of @teenagecancertrust.bsky.social . I'm so grateful to all.

Alexander von Humboldt taught us to try to understand the world both by looking at the data, and by going out, looking carefully and trusting our own senses. With this in mind, I wonder what he'd have made of our debate about immigration? on.ft.com/4pkDIJ8

Not sure quite what happened but a flurry of hugely generous donations in support of @teenagecancertrust.bsky.social . I'm so grateful to all.

I’m taking part in a unique auction: you can bid to have lunch with me, and support the FT’s Financial Literacy & Inclusion Campaign... @FT @FT_FLIC ft.com/auction

Lots of good and quite radical ideas for UK tax reform here from Dan Neidle. The inability of government after government to implement anything like this - and instead favouring silly stunts - has me despairing. on.ft.com/4nu8NrZ

A reminder of what Mandelson said to the FT's questions about Epstein in February this year

Very moved by some really generous donations from complete strangers - some of whom, judging by the currency, are literally on the other side of the world. People can be pretty awesome.

Cautionary Tales: True Lies and Genuine Fakes timharford.com/2025/09/caut...

Some politicians blame the statisticians when the statistics look grim. How does blaming the messenger generally work out? timharford.com/2025/09/why-...

The remorseless rule of my fitness watch: on.ft.com/46eCOFv

The remorseless rule of my fitness watch: on.ft.com/46eCOFv

I find myself re-reading Alain de Botton's "The Art of Travel" two decades after the first read. I liked it then but had forgotten quite how much. Such a fun, charming, clever book. amzn.to/3VEBRBk

Very moved by some really generous donations from complete strangers - some of whom, judging by the currency, are literally on the other side of the world. People can be pretty awesome.

I'm running the London Marathon in memory of my cousin Winnie - more about her, and the Teenage Cancer Trust, at the link. If you felt able to chip in a few quid I'd be hugely grateful. I'm confident that it's a very good cause. www.justgiving.com/page/tim-har...

I'm running the London Marathon in memory of my cousin Winnie - more about her, and the Teenage Cancer Trust, at the link. If you felt able to chip in a few quid I'd be hugely grateful. I'm confident that it's a very good cause. www.justgiving.com/page/tim-har...

"A Doomed One is a sorcerer who has bound themselves under ominous stars in the pursuit of magical power to the exclusion of all else. Every Doomed One has a fate in the form of a death that has been prophesied for them." A new subclass for #DragonWarriors. fabledlands.blogspot.com/2025/09/doom...

Cautionary Tales - Stallling for survival: a lonely fight against a deadly medicine timharford.com/2025/09/caut...

One-way street signs are weird. They tell you if you're going the right way, but not if you're going the wrong way. I've tried to discover why this is, but haven't succeeded... timharford.com/2025/02/do-y...

"Afraid of what might be Hiding in the dark, hiding in the street And of what was following me." A song there for the Hounds of... er, Tindalos, #DragonWarriors #TTRPG style. fabledlands.blogspot.com/2025/08/echo...

"I liked the immediacy of Victor’s narration in the original. He occasionally speaks, as it seems, directly to the reader, and that startles us until we recall that this is all being told to Walton." #Frankenstein realdavemorris.substack.com/p/frankenstein

If AI lifts off, will living standards follow? on.ft.com/3JN7m9G

If AI lifts off, will living standards follow? on.ft.com/3JN7m9G

My column Tin hat is on.... on.ft.com/41wuQ97

Announcing the Cautionary Club timharford.com/2025/09/anno...

My Central bank newsletter is on the obvious - Lisa Cook's case and where it leaves the Fed.... .... not in a good place for many reasons - read it www.ft.com/content/883b...

Announcing the Cautionary Club timharford.com/2025/09/anno...

I am extremely fond of the person who got me to do this and it is a very good cause so I will do as she asks and promote it on social media even though: a) this picture is about 10 years old and b) I can't remember anything that happened. Come anyway! We'll make some stuff up!!

"It's alive"? No, *he's* alive. realdavemorris.substack.com/p/frankenstein

A gorgeous retro version of #BloodSword: The Battlepits of Krarth. And it's free. daelsepara.itch.io/bloodsword-b...

Cautionary Tales - Disaster Favours the Daring: Shipwreck at Honda Point timharford.com/2025/08/caut...

Cautionary Tales - Disaster Favours the Daring: Shipwreck at Honda Point timharford.com/2025/08/caut...

Ed Caesar's "Two Hours" is a luminous piece of sports writing - all about the marathon, elite marathoners, Kenyan running culture, and much else. Loved it. amzn.to/3JDe0PK

Ed Caesar's "Two Hours" is a luminous piece of sports writing - all about the marathon, elite marathoners, Kenyan running culture, and much else. Loved it. amzn.to/3JDe0PK

Hidden charges, and how to avoid the tourist traps on.ft.com/4pbjSQG

Cautionary Tales - Paradise Lost: How Utopias Fall Apart timharford.com/2025/08/caut...

How a well-timed kind word can change everything: timharford.com/2025/08/how-...

Crying. Happy tears, I think.

"A funny thing happened to me this week. After trusting a dating app to arrange dinner with a suitably vivacious and intelligent lady, I arrived at the restaurant at the appointed time to find that in fact my date was with an octopus...." on.ft.com/3UG9fHt

What Jimi Hendrix teaches us about generative AI timharford.com/2025/08/what...

"Genius Still Unrecognised" - the worst poet in the world timharford.com/2025/08/caut...

"Genius Still Unrecognised" - the worst poet in the world timharford.com/2025/08/caut...

What Jimi Hendrix teaches us about generative AI timharford.com/2025/08/what...

A-Level results out today. Good luck to all concerned!

Why shooting the statistical messenger doesn't add up... on.ft.com/3HerQaC