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FT columnist, BBC journalist, author, host of Cautionary Tales, professional nerd.
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Liar, Bigamist, Brute: How Isaac Singer liberated women
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January 9, 2026 at 7:37 AM
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Liar, Bigamist, Brute: How Isaac Singer liberated women
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January 9, 2026 at 7:37 AM
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How British queues got out of hand
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How British queues got out of hand
[FREE TO READ] We were a nation that didn’t mind waiting in line. But this is ridiculous
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January 8, 2026 at 7:59 AM
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How British queues got out of hand
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How British queues got out of hand
[FREE TO READ] We were a nation that didn’t mind waiting in line. But this is ridiculous
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January 8, 2026 at 7:59 AM
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Cautionary Tales: Fritterin' Away Genius
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January 2, 2026 at 7:57 AM
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Why self-improvement starts with maintenance
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Why self-improvement starts with maintenance
It’s the time of year to ponder self-improving resolutions, and I find myself consulting one of my favourite 87-year-olds: the visionary author Stewart Brand. But if Brand is right, perhaps self-im…
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January 2, 2026 at 7:59 AM
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Why self-improvement starts with maintenance
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Why self-improvement starts with maintenance
It’s the time of year to ponder self-improving resolutions, and I find myself consulting one of my favourite 87-year-olds: the visionary author Stewart Brand. But if Brand is right, perhaps self-im…
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January 2, 2026 at 7:59 AM
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Cautionary Tales: Fritterin' Away Genius
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Cautionary Tales: Photographing Fairies
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Cautionary Tales – Photographing Fairies (Classic)
Sherlock Holmes is known for approaching all mysteries with cool logic – and yet when his creator Sir Arthur Conan Doyle saw photographs taken by two young girls purporting to show real life fairie…
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December 26, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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Why self-improvement starts with maintenance
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Why self-improvement starts with maintenance
[FREE TO READ] Whether you’re talking about armies, motorcycles or teeth, the same rule applies — what you care for will endure
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December 24, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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“They fall behind and are slowly crushed”: Board Games and Economics with Richard Garfield
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December 19, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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Santa Claus is still a woman...
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Santa Claus is still a woman
The first line of Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women is “Christmas won’t be Christmas without presents”, while Harriet Beecher Stowe’s 1850 short story The Good Fairy is about Christmas presents and,…
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December 18, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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From colonising Mars to measuring with Mars Bars — addressing your wilder monetary queries
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From colonising Mars to measuring with Mars Bars — addressing your wilder monetary queries
[FREE TO READ] In the latest of his Christmas columns, the FT’s Undercover Economist fields some of your most outlandish proposals, and concludes that there is no such thing as a stupid question
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December 18, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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Delighted that Richard Garfield, the creator of Magic The Gathering and other joyful games, is appearing on Cautionary Tales this Friday to grill me about UBI and chat about games, economics & game theory.
For a taste of his genius, KING OF TOKYO
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IELLO: King of Tokyo, New Edition, Strategy Board Game, Space Penguin Included in the Box, For 2 to 6 Players, 30 Minute Play Time, For Ages 8 and Up
This new edition of the best seller boasts new artwork, clearer rules, and revamped card abilities. Monsters have a new look, and the coveted space penguin character takes his place in Tokyo! King of ...
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December 17, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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Reading Adam Rutherford's "How To Argue with a Racist". Despite the pugnacious title it's largely a fun, readable and highly educational book about genetics (with the occasional glimpse into the worldview of white supremacists). I learned a lot.
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December 13, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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Flixborough: The factory that was wiped off the map
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December 12, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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Flixborough: The factory that was wiped off the map
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December 12, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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Swiss psychiatrist Elisabeth Kübler-Ross suggested that there are five stages of grief, but we have leapt instead from stage one, denial — “there is no AI bubble”, to stage five, acceptance — “AI is a bubble and bubbles are great”.
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Are bubbles good, actually?
Swiss psychiatrist Elisabeth Kübler-Ross suggested that there are five stages of grief, but nobody has the attention span for that any more. We have leapt instead from stage one, denial — “there is…
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December 11, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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The economics of seasonal serenity...
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The economics of seasonal serenity
[FREE TO READ] Management scholars are making a case study of Christmas
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December 11, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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Swiss psychiatrist Elisabeth Kübler-Ross suggested that there are five stages of grief, but we have leapt instead from stage one, denial — “there is no AI bubble”, to stage five, acceptance — “AI is a bubble and bubbles are great”.
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Are bubbles good, actually?
Swiss psychiatrist Elisabeth Kübler-Ross suggested that there are five stages of grief, but nobody has the attention span for that any more. We have leapt instead from stage one, denial — “there is…
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December 11, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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The economics of seasonal serenity...
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The economics of seasonal serenity
[FREE TO READ] Management scholars are making a case study of Christmas
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December 11, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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A friend just gave me "The Mathematicians' Library" - early xmas gift. It's a beautiful looking tour of great books of mathematics from history. Lovely reproductions. Can't wait to properly read it.
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December 9, 2025 at 7:11 AM
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Cautionary Club – “What a Bloody Mess we’re in” – Britain’s [REDACTED] Accident
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December 9, 2025 at 7:23 AM