Three assessments of the online world

Giuliano da Empoli (translated by Sam Taylor) Pushkin Press, £12.99 Last year saw the death of Tom Lehrer, the satirist who famously quit comedy when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize

The development and future of capitalism

ll internet users will recognise that things are getting worse online. Google searches now require scrolling through AI word soup and sponsored adverts at the top of results, while Facebook has become

It might surprise readers of The Wizard of the Kremlin to learn that its author, Giuliano da Empoli, is a “convinced European” and latterly even a “sort of a European federalist, which I wasn’t before

The next five years could see dramatic change on the web, as AI disrupts Google’s dominance in search, sparks a new browser war and exacerbates privacy invasions and digital surveillance. Or we could