At this rate art, craft and creativity will soon be as obsolete as BHS | Catherine Shoard

Sophisticated algorithms can now predict the bestseller lists, paving the way for artificial intelligence to take over entirelyTempting as it is to lay as much blame as possible at the feet of Philip Green – a man whose 63rd birthday cake involved an edible version of himself, topless, in bed with his chihuahua, silk sheets recreated in sugar paste, gold candles fringing the mattress like a flaming cage – the decline of British Home Stores was not entirely his fault. Like Austin Reed