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Real estate: the next generation

by Nick French | May 30, 2023 | Golden Oldie, The Agent

Originally published October 2020. For those about to emerge from university and enter the world of property, a few words of advice. As we enter 2020, I find myself engrossed in the new Star Trek series, ‘Picard’. Its central theme, set against a background of science...

The 2021 Bordeaux

by Mark Roberts | May 22, 2023 | Golden Oldie, Uncorked

Tasting notes on the harvest. I scrawl the following words towards the end of May, having recently returned from a week in Bordeaux… Now, there’s a phrase that hasn’t appeared in print for a while – over three years, to be exact. And after all that has happened since...

What is behind The New York Times’ bizarre coverage of British crime?

by Sam Ashworth-Hayes | May 14, 2023 | Golden Oldie, Technology

There’s a fun game to be played with The New York Times’ coverage of British crime. It’s very simple and you can play along at home: how many paragraphs will it take the paper to tell you what the sympathetic victim of the legal system actually did? Take...

Is virtual land nonsense?

by Luke Graham | May 14, 2023 | Golden Oldie, Technology

Not if it can generate income… Originally published July 2022. Mostly confined to cyberpunk and tech circles prior to 2021, the metaverse has since experienced breakout attention and entered the common vernacular. Not all of this has been welcomed. For every metaverse...

Horrible bosses

by Robert Donoghue and Tiago Vieira | May 14, 2023 | Golden Oldie, Technology

How algorithm managers are taking over the office. The 1999 cult classic film Office Space depicts Peter’s dreary life as a cubicle-dwelling software engineer. Every Friday, Peter tries to avoid his boss and the dreaded words: “I’m going to need you to go ahead and...