Sam Leith

Grade: A- There's a very faint echo of Jeff VanderMeer's unheimlich Southern Reach Series in the new indie side-scroller Neva . You're

On November 23, the video game World of Warcraft celebrated its twentieth anniversary. That’s no small thing

The reason Gail’s is worth having is that – an old-fashioned virtue in a for-profit company, I know – the product is good.

The bakery chain Gail's, which opened its first branch in Hampstead less than 20 years ago, is reportedly touted for sale by Goldman Sachs with a half billion pound price tag.

‘Go woke, go broke,' runs the catchphrase. Now, at last, we are presented with the welcome opportunity to put this proposition to the test.

‘Go woke, go broke,’ runs the catchphrase. Now, at last, we are presented with the welcome opportunity to put this proposition to the test. A new exchange-traded fund has been launched in the US whose unique selling point is that it will refuse to invest in companies which use Diversity Equity and Inclusion criteria in

To read a story as a child – a really, deeply involving story – is to be in contact with an alternative version of yourself Sam Leith. Image: Mark Rusher

The property tycoon Nick Candy, interviewed in yesterday's Sunday Times , appears to be hoping to position himself as a UK equivalent of Elon Musk – a

If you're a writer, should AI companies be allowed to use your work to train their models without your permission? This is a matter of concern for many writers – as it is for artists, musicians, and anyone whose work is being harvested by the industry and spewed out as AI glop. It's not just that it's a bit galling to think that our work is being ripped off for free: it's that, in the medium to long term, these large language models, if they can, will put writers out of jobs. (It's Christmas – feel free to make the obvious jokes in the comments.)