Festivals, flights and fulfilment: welcome to the post-digital world

However well-connected it makes us, cyberspace is lonely. That’s why, more and more, we are looking for live experiences

Wasting water is a luxury we can no longer afford

Worrying about how much water to drink each day is misleading – our real problem is the growing shortage that threatens four billion people on Earth

Jake Chapman is being a snob. Taking children to art galleries is vital

The artist claims children ‘are not human yet’ and thus can’t understand art. But art teaches us what it means to be human

London’s restaurants: a grotesque display of opulence

In the naked fetishisation of wealth that dominates the capital’s most fashionable eating places there are no critics

Contemporary art isn’t original – even copying has been done before

The row around Marina Abramović is redundant, as the story of art is one of homages and remakes. But that’s not to say there isn’t a problem

The common ground between coffee geeks and growers

With climate change decimating the harvest, caring about coffee is not just a hipster indulgence