The global art market has been changing for a decade, and it is not what the headlines say it is. The headlines say the market is contracting. Global auction turnover fell to $9.9 billion in 2024, down 33.5% from the previous year — a significant number, and one that generated the expected commentary about cooling demand and cautious collectors. What the headlines rarely mention is that 2024 was simultaneously the most active year in the history of the global art market. More

For decades, institutional power rested on a single advantage: controlling what individuals could access, know, and do. AI is removing that advantage. What comes next is not a better institution. It is the empowered individual. The most powerful thing about artificial intelligence is not what it can do. It is what it makes unnecessary. Specifically: the gatekeeper. The person, the institution, the platform that sits between you and what you need, and extracts value from that

Mark Zuckerberg is building an AI agent to help him run Meta . What he has inadvertently confirmed is something far more interesting — and far more available than he thinks. Last weekend, the Wall Street Journal broke a story that most people filed under “tech news.” Mark Zuckerberg , they reported, is building a personal AI agent to help him run Meta. The tool is still in development, but already functions as an on-demand information system — allowing the CEO of a company

The question came quite naturally: ‘ Surely you found it through someone ?’ He was talking about the apartment — the entire first floor of an old Swiss mansion, the kind of property that does not announce itself. Two floors and an attic, mountain views from every window, the quiet considered beauty of a place that was built to last and has. Not a hotel. Not a holiday rental in any conventional sense. The sort of thing that, in his experience, arrived through a phone call from

William the Conqueror (1028-1087) and the Lords in the House of Lords 18 March 2026. On this date, the House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Act received Royal Assent, ending a system that had existed, in one form or another, since the eleventh century. Ninety-two hereditary peers — dukes, viscounts, earls, barons — lost the right that their families had held, in some cases, for nearly a thousand years: the right to sit in Parliament by virtue of birth alone. One of the departin