How To Fly A Horse by Kevin Ashton
The Observer, January 2015 In the first few days of 2015, the CEO of Samsung promised that the Internet of Things – where everything is connected to the internet – was coming. That there really […]
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Simply English by Simon Heffer
The Observer, May 2014 If you are of the opinion that the newspaper headline “the economy shrank steeper than expected” isn’t just grammatically incorrect but, as Simon Heffer shrieks, a positively “barbaric” crime against language, […]
Curious by Ian Leslie
The Observer, May 2014 It’s the paradox of our times. The internet offers us deeper and quicker access to more knowledge than ever before, but there is more and more evidence that this vast, always-on archive is […]
Maggie And Me by Damian Barr
The Observer, April 2014 When Damian Barr’s memoir Maggie and Me was published last April, complete with Margaret Thatcher beaming beatifically from its front cover, it seemed immaculately timed. Thatcher had died earlier that month, and his book began […]
The Unexpected Professor by John Carey
The Observer, March 2014 At the very beginning of John Carey‘s enjoyable ramble through his life as a scholar, critic, literary prize judge, writer and professor, he admits that at first he wanted to write a […]