How to save our high streets? The answer is in the church | Simon Jenkins

Abandoned churches are slowly being reinvented as secular meeting places as the experience economy continues to growI have just had my first Alexa experience. It was in Los Angeles and it was eerie and rather charming. There is no doubt “she” vastly simplifies a range of trivial tasks. To the lonely, she is apparently comforting, like a pet, and with “empathy” increasingly built in, is growing ever more so. But she is clearly driving a nail ever further into the coffin of