iPhone
How emotions shape our decision-making
Ask any estate agent: most potential house buyers arrive with a detailed list of criteria for their new home, only…
Real life
As I sat down to dinner in a lovely old country pub my reservation was cancelled by my iPhone, which…
Real life
The girl wound down her window, stuck her mobile phone out into midair, and started to take pictures of the…
Real life
‘Can I ask you why you don’t want a smart phone?’ said the chirpy manager, as I stood blinking in…
Twitter, but with actual screaming
For my 13th birthday in 1995 I requested — and got — my own ‘line’. This meant that I could…
Is EE fantastic after all?
This was going to be about how a major phone company surprised me by delivering a fantastic service. I was…
I’ve faked my own iPhone death
After much thought, I am toying with the idea of faking my own death. I mean in a virtual sense,…
The Florida Project never sanctifies or demonises and is absorbing throughout
The Florida Project is a drama set in one of those cheap American motels occupied by poor people who would…
High life
As everyone who stands up when a lady enters the room knows, the once sacrosanct rules of civility throughout the…
iAddicts
For many years The Spectator employed a television reviewer who did not own a colour television. Now they have decided…
We’re swamped with nonsense gizmos and it’s all Steve Jobs’s fault
I keep being told that the big hot technological gizmo of the moment is a box that sits in the…
Real life
Andy the tech guy looked delighted when I told him I had done the stupidest thing ever. He is one…
Real life
You can’t always get what you want. And you can never get what you want if you want a phone…
Long life
For the past two and a half years my brother John has been living next door to me in the…
Real life
After four hours of driving, we should have been in the middle of Dartmoor. And yet we were not. We…
Dear Mary
Q. At a private screening of a documentary about the artist David Bomberg, a woman sitting near me in the…
Real life
‘How often do you de-frag this?’ said the Good Geek in the phone shop. I had gone in finally to…
Real life
Just the three resolutions for me. I am keeping it simple. Number one: no more boyfriends. The definition of insanity…
