A book about nothing
A new collection from Adrian Chiles is certainly curious
The horrors of VAR
Technology is making the beautiful game less beautiful
Bad education
Under Labour a deeply ideological education sector could go very quickly and badly wrong
Run from “Rabbits”
Hugo Rifkind’s new novel is like a warm bath turning cold
A bad man writes a worse book
Alastair Campbell’s new book is beneath the level of the bargain bin
Why tech execs don’t give their kids phones
Gen Z’s brains have been “rewired” by the online world —can they be restored to factory settings?
Very public introspection
The content of “misery lit” is disturbing, but what purpose does it serve?
A class act?
Polly Toynbee’s memoirs test the reader’s patience
More like a lecture
“Lessons” is Ian McEwan at his worst
A quiet revolution
Enough of reformers who want to turn schools upside-down without knowing which way is up