Louis Elton

Mar 22, 2024 | the-fence.com | Tim Wyatt |Eve Webster |Jimmy McIntosh |Louis Elton

Our plan to revive theatreland. Theatre in London is wildly expensive these days, much like everything else. But the current programme of reheated classics and declassé musicals will mean that theatre in London will soon be irrelevant and unpopular, which would be a bad thing. So, behold: our plan to save the jewel in London’s cultural crown. Thriller – Live. No, Seriously.

Mar 13, 2024 | the-fence.com | Eve Webster |Jimmy McIntosh |Louis Elton |Madeleine Brettingham

Helping people find their place in the sun. It was my first day at my first job after leaving university, and my new manager gave me some advice. ‘You won’t make any money working in telly, ’ he told me, hands flounced apart (as if I needed any reminder of how little I was earning) ‘unless you come up with an idea and sell it to a channel.’ He took a drag of his cigarette. I had found myself working for the production company that makes the daytime television programme A Place in the Sun.

Mar 11, 2024 | the-fence.com | Jimmy McIntosh |Louis Elton |Madeleine Brettingham |Robbie Armstrong

In search of Betjeman’s arcadia In 1973, Sir John Betjeman produced a memorable BBC documentary, entitled Metro-Land. The concept of Metro-land was concocted in 1915 by the advertising poindexters at the Metropolitan Railway Country Estates, as a means to both promote their train line out into The Chilterns and entice potential homeowners to the developments that were springing up around it.

Mar 6, 2024 | the-fence.com | Louis Elton |Madeleine Brettingham |Robbie Armstrong |Harvey James

The world’s first vibes-based personality taxonomy system. SOME BACKGROUNDFor millennia, we have categorized people into taxonomies to explain who they really are. Efforts to understand personality have always appealed to external standards of Truth. Astrology and the enneagram find insight in the divine. The Myers-Briggs Test and Big Five Personality Traits claim to harness the science of who we are. Yet, the old systems are collapsing. Rigour and standards do not matter anymore.

Jan 8, 2024 | unherd.com | Louis Elton

After years of being told that the smartphone revolution has turned us into an atomised scrolletariat, we may be on the cusp of liberation. As part of his latest project, OpenAI’s will-he-won’t-he CEO Sam Altman has set his sights on shattering the screen-based paradigm — by building the “iPhone of AI”. Nor is he the only one: towards the end of last year, Humane launched the screenless Pin, a $699 clip-on AI voice assistant.