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High life

2016 will be a vintage year for tech billionaires and jihadis

The time has come for governments to step in — and for me to say that something must be really wrong

2 January 2016

9:00 AM

2 January 2016

9:00 AM

This is going to be one hell of a year, hell being the operative word. It will be the year the greatest Greek writer since Homer turns 80 (but we’ll keep quiet about that for the moment). Our world is so stuck in reverse that a woman who was stabbed in Miami during the Art Basel shindig, and was bleeding and begging for help, was mistaken for an artwork and ignored.

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