Internet
A new taste of Twitter nastiness
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…
Linked in
What makes the World Service so different from the rest of the BBC? I asked Mary Hockaday, the controller of…
High life
One reason I do not tweet, text, use Facebook or Instagram, and only wield a mobile when a landline is…
Fine vintage
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 spring up by accident
Since no one has bothered to ask what my must-read book of last year was I’m going to tell you…
Pry another day
Were David Cameron in any way adept at spin, it would be tempting to think that the publication of the…
I may have to revise my view that crypto-currencies are Satan’s work
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 —…
TalkTalk shows us the internet is only three clicks from anarchy
I’m not a customer of TalkTalk, the phone company which revealed last week that a hacker had potentially compromised the…
Eugenics for your email
You won’t read much about Sir Francis Galton nowadays because, while it’s inarguable that the man was a giant in…
Barometer
Peers’ peers Forty-five new peers were created. Are we alone in having an upper house of parliament made up of…
The dangerous food fad
The ‘clean eating’ revolution is more likely to make you ill than healthy
Flashmob rule
It is the duty of MPs to resist Twitter storms and online petitions
Do Nikkei and the FT really share the same journalistic values?
It’s nearly 30 years since I worked in Japan, but I still have a few words of the language and…
Caught on the net
Going online does not make you invisible – as the adulterers who used the hacked site Ashley Madison are discovering
Pop psychology
The secrets of bubble-wrap and other delicious little sensations
Long life
The smart phone is a wonderful thing. We are never out of touch anymore, neither with friends nor with the…
How Taylor Swift socked it to Apple over a weekend
All hail Taylor Swift. How she must give baby boomers the fear. Not just baby boomers. Also those who came…
Web of sin
Why don’t more people object to online promotion of adultery?
Why estate agents aren’t dying out
I don’t like to make business predictions, but — barring some apocalypse — I suspect there will be plenty of…
The age of the Skype Dad
What happens when a divorce court accepts video calls as a substitute for visiting your children
Back to the future
How Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner, made 33 years ago, foresaw the way we live today, by William Cook
Twitter style
I don’t know if you tweet — No! Don’t turn over, I’m not going to get all techie. I do…
Wish list
Annie Nightingale 25 July 2015 9:00 am
Compilation schompilation. Having been in music for as long as I have you would think I had a good idea…