Earlier in the summer, the Democratic party and its supporters faced a difficult decision: should they gently but firmly sideline President Joe Biden from the 2

Early morning, April 1789. Captain Bligh is abruptly dragged from his cabin. Wrists bound, bayonet pressed to his chest, he and a few loyal sailors are forced i

After a spasm of concern about the role of misinformation in fuelling racist riots in England, don’t expect things to calm down: the US election is approachin

Next Wednesday, 7pm at the Great Hall, Wills Memorial Building. We’ll be recording an episode live on stage; it will be fun! Tickets available here – come along!

My wife doesn’t even bother to roll her eyes any more when I fail to complete the simplest of household tasks. “Did you get distracted?” she will ask, although she knows the answer. Thankfully, now I have cover, because if there is one person in the…

Leo Durocher would stop at nothing to win. The baseball player-turned-manager was a skilled tactician and famously tough. But he also cheated, intimidated umpires and was violent; he was even known to beat up fans. Durocher was famous for coining the…

Paul Starrett has just won a major building contract. If everything goes according to plan, this will be the tallest building in the world. But will everything go according to plan? This prestigious new project will have his biggest workforce yet.…

Travel broadens the mind, especially if the destination is the cradle of the Renaissance. However, the Florentine masterpiece on display that caught the attention of Harford Jr was not Ghiberti’s bronze baptistery doors, nor Botticelli’s “Birth of Venus”,…

For those of us who love sport, the Euros followed by the Olympics have given us a vintage summer. For those of us who love geeking out over data, even more so — because sport, like life itself, is ever more quantified, a world in which metrics are…

Tim Harford’s life has been building up to this moment. In this Cautionary Conversation, he discusses the works of his favourite author J.R.R. Tolkien and the social science at play in Amazon Prime’s series The Rings of Power. What do elves and…