Browsing: Brockes

Are you a January resolutions or a September reset person? The latter has always felt more propitious to me, light of the exhaustion of Christmas and…

A few years ago, towards the end of the second Obama administration, a friend and her wife flew back to New York from a holiday in…

According to research undertaken by Stanford Medicine in 2024, adult human beings are subject to two “massive biomolecular shifts” – spikes in ageing, in other words…

If you want to get rich, a friend of mine said recently, set up an exam centre. We were talking about her decision to home school…

This time last year, I had just moved back to Britain from the US and was enjoying the almost universal envy of American friends. While they…

Every year at this time, I think of a quote from the Bible, but which I know from Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette…

If you put it in a novel – a ham-fisted satire of tech overlord hypocrisy, say – it would look too contrived to fly. But here…