The what of the internet?!? “Enshittification” is a term coined by the British-Canadian technology critic and author Cory Doctorow in 2022 to describe how the digital services that increasingly domina

It’s been a while since the furore over the December 2025 release of the so-called Epstein Files, or at least some of them. And then only some of some of them. Yes, I’m talking about the great redacti

You might expect to encounter a psychopath in a law office or managing a hedge fund, or perhaps in an operating theatre. Law, finance and medicine are often seen as favourable professions for those wh

Rachel Ward, with actor husband Bryan Brown, in 1983 (below) and on her cattle farm recently (inset) Why do we think it’s acceptable to comment on someone’s looks? Seriously, if I had a quid for every

In 2022, Cory Doctorow coined a term to describe how the internet has decayed at the hands of tech giants, making the digital world a far worse place. His neologism, “enshittification”, was named the

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