Bryan Appleyard
Articles by Bryan Appleyard
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Technology
Goodbye to the age of innovation?
- 31 October 2011
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Steve Jobs created Apple in his own image – relentlessly perfectionist and “insanely great”. But, in an age of management consultants and meddling investors, will a singular talent like his ever flourish in business again?
Books
The Net Delusion: How Not to Liberate the World
- 13 January 2011
Bryan Appleyard taps in to the latest thinking by the young media guru Evgeny Morozov — and argues that it’s no time to work ourselves into a frenzy about the web’s power to spread freedom and information.
Religion
The God-shaped hole in our lives
- 19 July 2010
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We like to think that religion counts only when we need to choose a good school for our children. Yet Britain is founded on an established church, writes Bryan Appleyard. Are we really past the age of faith?
Books
High Financier: the Lives and Time of Siegmund Warburg
- 05 July 2010
Siegmund Warburg, scion of the great banking dynasty, founded his own financial house with the aim of doing much more than grow for growth’s sake. Niall Ferguson’s biography is a fascinating portrait of a figure central to Labour’s attempts to rebuild Britain in the 1970s.
Non Fiction
The Believers: How America Fell for Bernard Madoff’s $65bn Investment Scam
- 03 December 2009
Books
Little things that matter
- 16 April 2009
- 1 comment
How We Live and Why We Die: the Secret Lives of Cells Lewis Wolpert Faber & Faber, 240pp, £14.99
Music
My life as a sock puppet
- 26 February 2007
I have become the sort of person who sits in Earls Court watching pop bands warm up and eating steak sandwiches. Who am I?
