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AI will never understand what makes writing great

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

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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

Also featuring Sing Like Fish by Amorina Kingdon and Tracks on the Ocean by Sara Caputo.

By Michael Prodger, Pippa Bailey and George Monaghan

The writer on Keir Starmer, Labour’s “grim” inheritance and his desire to reinvent the past.

By Pippa Bailey