As I watched people glued to their phones I realised — we are forgetting how to talk
Recently I found myself at dinner with m'learned colleague Giles Coren. Without wishing to confirm preconceptions about what Giles and I get up to in our free time, it is relevant to this story that you know we were dining at one of London's fanciest new restaurants. Each dish was pristine, caviar-ridden. Nobody was escaping for less than £250 a head.
And yet something felt off. I couldn't put my finger on it. Then Giles leant across the table. 'Have you noticed everyone here is on their phones?'
He was right. Entirely right. Next to us, two businessmen hadn't looked up from their emails once. Next to them, a family with two teenagers in baseball caps, ignoring their food and instead gorging lasciviously on TikTok
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