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The Coup, the Poet and the Secret to Winning Wimbledon

Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford

CHAPTER

How to Avoid a Disaster

Dr. Jameson was captured by boar fighters in the Gold Reef city of Johannesburg, South Africa after a raid on an army base there. The British government wanted to put him on trial but he had incriminating messages from Sir Hercules Robinson that showed they were aware of his plot. In Pretoria, the boar leader resisted demands to make Jameson face a firing squad and instead handed him over to UK authorities. Back in Britain though, the Nationalistic public didn’t see Jameson as a blundering incompetent. They thought he was a plucky hero. He received many offers of marriage, including one from an attractive and wealthy widow who explained she had two marriageable

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