According to his website, Tim Harford's regular column in the Financial Times, "Dear Economist", is a feature "in which readers' personal problems are answered, tongue-in-cheek, with the latest economic theory." I'm not au fait with the latest in economic theory, but it would appear that Mr. Harford is rather out of date, by some decades, with the ( Read more... )

The papers are currently full of "How To Survive Your Work's Christmas Do" boilerplate features. Seriously, do they actually write these from scratch each year, or is it just a case of editing the previous year's to include the latest in dire legal consequences (for 2006, it's the Employment Equality (Age) Regulations that you need to be wary of ( Read more... )