Technology is making the beautiful game less beautiful

Under Labour a deeply ideological education sector could go very quickly and badly wrong

Hugo Rifkind’s new novel is like a warm bath turning cold

Alastair Campbell’s new book is beneath the level of the bargain bin

Gen Z’s brains have been “rewired” by the online world —can they be restored to factory settings?

The content of “misery lit” is disturbing, but what purpose does it serve?

Polly Toynbee’s memoirs test the reader’s patience

“Lessons” is Ian McEwan at his worst

Enough of reformers who want to turn schools upside-down without knowing which way is up

Hidden Lessons is filled with clichéd phrasing and, even worse, predictable and clichéd thinking