Jeff Bezos
Digital dysmorphia
The internet has gone from the marketplace of ideas, to a marketplace in bodies
Bezos’s sub-prime delivery
One is a billionaire with visions of conquering space — the other is Hugo Drax
Keep your shirt on
Don your white shirt with a flash of scarlet à la the fashion bitches
The crisis in the universities
A Critic panel brought light as well as heat to the troubled question of higher education
As flies to wanton boys
Gambling with human lives is just another day in the lives of the one per cent
Grandmasters: a meeting of great minds
Napoleon and Goethe: Touchstone of Genius by Raymond Keene
The scandal of screens
Parents are ill-equipped to fight the power of Big Tech over children’s lives — they desperately need the law to be on their side
Brussels, capital city of Surrealism
In Brussels, Surrealism lurks in the most unexpected places
Childhood reclaimed
Mobile phones have been constraining our kids’ imaginations — but it does not have to be this way
Fire and ice
Klopp is the air-punching booming-laugh extrovert; Guardiola the turtleneck-wearing, obsessively professorial introvert
Keir the coward
Narrowing the borders of permissible opinion will not solve Britain’s societal crises