I was a little alarmed last year when I was chatting to an IT security consultant and he denied that AI code is written by a human. He went on to assure me that AI codes and algorithms were far too long and complicated to be written by a person. I countered that unless these mega-sums grow on trees, then odds-on a human made it.

As tempting as it is to cut store budgets and then blame the retail industry for a brand’s demise, it’s kind of a furphy. Retail isn’t dead because people still love to shop.

On one of my recent, procrastination-fuelled trips around the internet, I was playing ‘if I had a horse, what would I buy for it?’ and I found myself at Hermès looking at saddles. I was shocked at what I found.