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David Peace’s footballing saints

The novelist laureate of English football succumbs to hero-worship in his reimagining of the Busby Babes’ tragic demise.

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Anthony Seldon’s all-access account fails to explain how a pound-shop Thatcher could take the highest office in the land.

By Sonia Purnell

I don’t doubt that AI will one day write a “good” novel. But why would anyone want to read it?

By Megan Nolan

On Leadership is wise on the business of government but credulous on Elon Musk and corporate power.

By Andrew Marr

Also featuring Four Points of the Compass by Jerry Brotton and The Invention of Good and Evil by Hanno Sauer.

By Michael Prodger, Zuzanna Lachendro, Zoë Huxford and Finn McRedmond

An elite by inheritance still holds sway but it has been joined by an elite of grafters.

By Nicholas Harris

The New Zealand author, born 100 years ago, was both tormented and inspired by her experience of mental illness.

By Ellen Peirson-Hagger

Jeremy Clarke’s final Spectator columns, written after his cancer diagnosis, are witty, well balanced and devoid of self-pity.

By David Sexton