Dave

Parenting is hard. Should we let AI do it for us? | Dave Schilling
What job in our world is less lucrative than being a parent? A Hollywood internship? Volunteering at a soup kitchen? Professional writer? Parenting is the only job you have...
If you think kids will respect a robot teacher, you have never met a kid | Dave Schilling
What’s more harrowing than sending your child to school? Maybe getting stuck on a city bus that can’t drop below 55 miles per hour or it will explode, but...
The profit motive has strangled sports. Now Fifa is putting soccer up for sale | Dave Schilling
Just when you thought global soccer couldn’t get more odiously capitalistic, Gianni Infantino said: “Hold my beer” (as long as that beer you’re holding is a Michelob Ultra, one...
I tried so hard to become a salad eater. Now cyclospora is sending me back to burgers | Dave Schilling
While war and conflict seem to be raging across the planet, the greatest weapon of mass destruction afflicting the United States today is, apparently, a salad – in the...
The Paramount-WBD merger: bad news for Hollywood, great news for Tennessee? | Dave Schilling
There are simply too many companies in the world. Apple, Google, Amazon, Ryanair. I’m probably forgetting some. How could I not? There are so many companies. Thankfully, here in...
The office lunch was once a luxury. Now it’s just a pain | Dave Schilling
It’s 12.30pm as I write this. My mind is preoccupied with moving my fingers from key to key on my ageing laptop, a task I pause briefly to remove...
Bank of Dave: The Musical review – ebullient local hero story bursts into song
Was ever a musical so eager to be liked, so anxious not to exclude? It is not just the patronising pre-show introduction, which assumes we have never been in...
Why Stockport’s Dave Challinor stands out as the master of a promotion push
“I’ve been through absolutely everything,” says Dave Challinor. “I’ve won and lost eliminators, won and lost semi-finals and finals, won and lost on penalties. I’ve even had goalkeepers score...
The UK and US are boorish in their own ways. But I often wish I were British | Dave Schilling
The so-called “special relationship” between Britain and the United States has never seemed more tenuous. At times, it looks like the US-UK alliance is a geopolitical version of a...
Will I ever retire? It doesn’t look like it | Dave Schilling
“Retirement.” A word I can hardly spell anymore, it seems so abstract and impossible – like a science-fiction concept from a tattered old novel. In the classic film Blade...