The term ‘Guardian reader’ has become a shorthand way of saying ‘someone of liberal values’, and is usually accompanied by the terms ‘sandal wearing’ and ‘lentil munching’, but if that’s how it has to be, then pass me my Birkenstocks, for I am that lentil.
Video never really killed the radio star, did it? Amazon never really put bookshops out of business as it was predicted to. Now the last bastion of analogue entertainment seems to be going through a period of renaissance.
The first major retrospective of Damien Hirst's work opens in London next week. Rarely has an artist evoked such a strong reaction from fellow artists and critics.