Portrait of the week
Home Donald Tusk, the president of the European Council, prepared a paper on the four areas of concern between Britain…
Mr Bear is back: sit tight because he may be with us for a while
Like Leonardo DiCaprio in The Revenant, we’ve just been savaged by a bear but we’ll probably survive. Leading UK-listed stocks…
Thomas Heatherwick
Thomas Heatherwick is the most famous designer in the United Kingdom today and has an unquestionable flair for attention-grabbing creations.…
The end of secrecy
Gordon Corera, best known as the security correspondent for BBC News, somehow finds time to write authoritative, well-researched and readable…
Novel distractions
Procrastination is easier in the age of Google – but less honest
Would you put your life in the care of Dr Droid?
There’s something wrong with the relationship between patients and their GPs. I’ve spent much of this winter in my local…
The secret of my most amazing achievement ever
Just before Christmas I achieved something so totally, incredibly amazing that I think it probably ranks among the greatest things…
Bletchley spark
The story of how we cracked Enigma was top secret, then misrepresented. Now it’s a worldwide cult
Nerds, spies and terrorists
Freedom of the press still matters when the presses are virtual
Barometer
Dirty dancing David Cameron was accused of causing racial offence by posing with blacked-up Morris dancers, though it was pointed…
Will Osborne’s tilt against Double Dutch tax dodgers play into Farage’s hands?
George Osborne’s promise to crack down on multinational companies’ avoidance of UK taxes by the use of impenetrable devices such…
How user-friendly is your house?
Old Glaswegian joke: ‘Put your hat and coat on, lassie, I’m off to the pub.’ ‘That’s nice — are you…
In praise of Dr Google
There’s something perversely satisfying in discovering that your children have inherited your vices. That’s why I was so quietly pleased…
The need to know
It’s scarcely possible to open a newspaper or magazine these days without reading an article about how the latest technological…
Investment: Be tech savvy
Technology investing has come a long way since the dotcom bust
Long life
With regard to modern technology, I find that people of around my age — by which I mean people in…
Investment: America vs gravity
Reality may be about to reassert itself after an extraordinary hot streak
What is Facebook? That’s the problem – nobody really knows
I’d never noticed that there aren’t any tits on Facebook. The place always seems brimming with right tits to me.…
Net loss
It is not quite clear what Google did to David Cameron, but the Prime Minister seems to be exacting some…
