Positive thinking won’t save us

How do you feel about the future? When I ask people this question, I get a consistent mix of responses: apprehension, dread, worry, resignation and perhaps some curiosity. These sentiments are widely

We must be getting close to the end of one thing… and the start of something else. The thing whose end is nigh is the bubble on Wall Street. As a bubble inflates, the lightest, lowest-quality stocks f

If the most prized commodity in the 20th century was oil, in the 21st it is data. It is both our humdrum reality and our anxious obsession. It tracks everything from which online advertisements we are

RIDICULOUS that after all this time it should be a shock. What had she expected? That he would appear one day on her doorstep with that oh-so-familiar crooked grin to reclaim her? To tell her that he’

Pick of the week’s correspondence

When Donald Trump took the oath of office for the second time in January 2025, he was surrounded not just by politicians and dignitaries, but by the CEOs of six of the world’s most visible technology