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Tales of three cities
Remember Douglas Coupland? Remember Tama Janowitz? Remember Lisa St Aubin de Terán? Banana Yoshimoto? Françoise Sagan? The voice of your…
How internet paywalls are making us all dumber
Thanks to meteoric advances in computational power, it is now possible to take abundant data from a wide range of…
Donald the Elephant’s days are numbered
I keep finding myself singing ‘Nellie the elephant’ who, packing her trunk and saying goodbye to the circus, went off…
Happiness is being a Mormon
Here we go again, my 40th Christmas column in a row, and it seems only two weeks ago that I…
Are white nationalists about to take over the US? Not bloody likely
Richard Spencer made the front page of the New York Times two days in a row last week, and earned…
Trump, the pick-up artist who seduced America
Many years ago, when I was a mere slip of a features journalist, I spent a weekend learning how to…
Herzog leaves us as anxious and uncertain as we are thrilled: Lo and Behold reviewed
As a documentary-maker, Werner Herzog is a master of tone. His widely parodied voiceovers — breathy, raspy, ominous — are…
What to eat: Anyone for acid-free snake oil?
If I were to ask you to name a health problem that affects around seven million people in the UK…
What to eat: Anyone for acid-free snake oil?
The tradition of charlatans with crackpot theories is nothing new, especially in the world of health, although it wasn’t until…
What really motivates Trustpilot’s Feedback requests
In olden days, before the internet arrived, shopping was quite simple. You’d go into a shop and buy something, and…
Social media, Michael Gove and me
The publication of private emails by Colin Powell has spread panic in Washington. Now nobody feels safe. Some prominent people…
It’s fatuous to outlaw an emotion – especially hate
A man in Austria has been sentenced to three months in prison for posting a picture of his cat on…
The memory gap: how technology took over the mind
What happens when we outsource part of our brains to the internet?
The gig economy and why steady jobs are more recent than you think
In the same song where the brilliant lyricist Ian Dury gave the world the couplet, ‘I could be a writer…
The internet’s war on free speech
The web was meant to empower us all. Right now, it’s empowering censors
Online feedback frenzy is killing the art of complaint
Internet surveys have killed the art of complaint
What happened when my son went to school as Goldilocks
Whenever I hear a leftie complain about being abused on Twitter, I think: ‘You should try being me.’ A case…
What do all these evil maniacs have in common?
More bad publicity for the Islamic State’s ‘Kafir Tiny Tots and Babycare Service’. A burka-clad madwoman wandering through the streets…
Why the World Service is worth every penny
What makes the World Service so different from the rest of the BBC? I asked Mary Hockaday, the controller of…
Here’s how I would deal with the dorks who spread lies online
One reason I do not tweet, text, use Facebook or Instagram, and only wield a mobile when a landline is…
Serious, popular art: Peter Shaffer's Five Finger Exercise reviewed
A beautiful crumbling theatre in Notting Hill is under threat. The Coronet, which bills itself as the Print Room, faces…
The best things in the world have always sprung up by accident. Take the internet, for instance
Since no one has bothered to ask what my must-read book of last year was I’m going to tell you…
We trust our spies. But we shouldn’t trust this bill
Were David Cameron in any way adept at spin, it would be tempting to think that the publication of the…
Maybe bitcoin isn’t the work of the devil, after all
I confess to being an out-and-out Luddite when it comes to bitcoin and other so-called crypto-currencies. To the extent that…
Are we all potential cyberterrorists now?
Hollywood got there first, of course. Back in 1983, before most of us even learned — then forgot again —…
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