Books

The horrors of VAR

Technology is making the beautiful game less beautiful

The age of reason, sliced and diced

No historian wields Ockham’s razor more effectively than J.C.D. Clark

A beguiling star who loved melodrama

Taylor’s hunger for money, flashy gizmos and flashier gewgaws found its echo in Burton’s need to forsake the classics

The 300 Years’ War

How conflict over land ownership shaped conflict over Ireland

Tragedy, comedy and an Italian parable

Three great novels capture a moment of change for society

An intelligent book on AI? Very nearly

The threat from AI comes from humans placing too much faith in complex but fallible systems

Tory Utopias

1940s Conservatism was seething with creativity and optimism

Have we been barking up the wrong tree?

Mark Rowlands believes that humans have a lot to learn from dogs

Pornhub exposed

The tenth most visited website in the world was effectively castrated by a middle-aged American mum

The Bezos behemoth

Behind the logistics miracle are some troubling stories