We’ve forgotten to celebrate the unparallelled benefits our many screens have given us

At 40, it’s embarrassing to be stuck with L-plates, but being a non-driver brings a surprising amount of smug joy

Just let your microwave do what it does best: cooking something a supermarket has previously embalmed for us

Waiting in line behind four people, all of whom have to shepherd the hapless post office employee through his own job: now, that’s what I call me time

They’re faster and more fun than human cashiers, but self-checkouts do still offer a unique way for you to meet the staff if you want to

They’re often dismissed as fluff, but there is a lot to be said for watching celebrities explore exotic places from the comfort of your own sofa

In this hi-tech era of AI and CGI, adults no longer need to don padded costumes and ludicrously big heads. That’s a pity…

I must go down to the sea again – for the wheezing rides, vintage wretchedness and crappy plastic currency

Really, is there any difference between the Bootleg Beatles and the Brandenburg Concertos at the Proms?

Return, I say, to pepper the sterile silence of this shinier, more vapid age

What finer masterpiece than one painted by someone untouched by the brush of genius, but who still had a go?