Ministers urged to add audiobooks to England’s new schools curriculum
Charity calls for move after poll finds ‘crisis’ levels of reading for pleasure and rise in 8- to 18-year-olds enjoying audio
Joe Haines obituary
Press secretary to Harold Wilson in the late 60s and 70s who went on to work for the Daily Mirror
Nigel Farage, Jordan Peterson & co worship each other in alt-right heaven
Welcome to the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship conference, a fatuous echo chamber of self-congratulation
Ash Sarkar: ‘I never learned much of value from TV’
The leftwing political commentator on gen Z’s disillusionment with democracy, why she’s a ‘Mantel stan’ and the moral panic behind her first book
Get In by Patrick Maguire and Gabriel Pogrund review – behind the scenes with Morgan McSweeney, Labour’s arch strategist
This is a rattlingly good tale of a modern-day Machiavelli that ascribes credit for Labour’s journey to power not to Keir Starmer, but to his Irish chief of staff
The Guardian view on AI and copyright law: big tech must pay
Editorial: Elton John, Paul McCartney and thousands of other artists have called for protection from data crawling. The government must listen
Sadiq Khan, Stephen Fry and Emily Thornberry make new year honours list
Mayor of London ‘truly humbled’ to be made a knight as authors, actors and sporting stars receive honours
In hopeless times, we can never afford to lose hope
As democracy’s opponents peddle hate, anger and division, our job is to act like citizens of a better country
It’s quiz time: how well do you remember 2024?
Sports, scandals, music, memes… Take our bumper quiz of all the highs and lows of the year that was
Sales of Boris Johnson’s memoir slump by 62% in second week
Former prime minister’s heavily promoted book, Unleashed, just hung on to No 1 bestseller spot in UK
The big idea: is nostalgia killing politics?
From the Tories’ Thatcher fixation to Labour’s Blair fetish, ideas from the past are poisoning the political present
What the Dickens is Robert Jenrick trying to tell us?
The Tory leadership contender’s assertion that the last book he read was A Tale of Two Cities is open to several interpretations
Boris Johnson’s memoir sells more than 40,000 copies in first week on sale
Unleashed, which covers Johnson’s time as mayor of London, foreign secretary and prime minister, was the bestselling book of the week
Has Boris Johnson new respect for women? Let’s ask the one he calls ‘old grumpy knickers’
In his memoir, the great inseminator has little good to say about the women around him
The Care Dilemma by David Goodhart review – a flawed study of family life
The Road to Somewhere author argues that the liberating impact of feminism has harmed our children in a book shot through with claims that don’t stand up to scrutiny