It is one of the most tantalising – and entertaining – puzzles in art, stretching from the Louvre to the Loire via, well, Norfolk. And our critic thinks he has just worked it out Increased security after the recent heist has made the queues at the Louvre even slower, yet […]
Trump’s admission that he recognises no constraint outside his own morality was a horrifying moment of truth. It should galvanise all those who oppose him For a serial liar, Donald Trump can be bracingly honest. We’ve known about the mendacity for years – consider the 30,573 documented falsehoods from the […]
Amid an affordable housing crisis, renting a room from a friend can seem like the perfect solution. But without clear rules, it can lead to power imbalances, feuds and even unfair evictions … When Rachel needed a place to live, Maya was only too happy to offer her spare room. […]
His brutal movies put Korean cinema on the map. Now the director of Oldboy is back with a blistering satire about a man driven to murder after redundancy The Korean wave is being feted around the world right now but Park Chan-wook is not feeling too celebratory. From the outside, […]
From the V&A to the Stranger Things finale, the pop icon still looms large – but with lower streaming figures than his peers, how many new listeners are discovering his music? • ‘A perplexing, astonishing finale’: world pays tribute to David Bowie a decade after his death When David Bowie […]
Nine episodes in, Radon Liz’s YouTube show is as laughably deranged as ever A world on the brink. Regime change in Venezuela. Greenland under threat from Donald Trump. Shadow fleet tanker seized by the US and the Brits in the North Atlantic. The Europeans battling to keep America onside in […]
I found solace in looking through my father’s slides after he died. They made me gasp – and my childhood turned from monotonous monochrome to glorious Technicolor When my sister handed me a box of old Kodachrome slides last summer, I almost didn’t bother looking through them. Unusually for pre-smartphone […]
At the Oxford farming conference there were signs the government has much to do to win back farmers’ trust Few symbols were more potent than the wooden coffin bearing the inscription “RIP British agriculture, 30th October 2024” that greeted Labour’s environment minister at the annual Oxford farming conference. It marked […]
An agent shot a woman in Minneapolis, causing vast and needless grief. Our country is diseased – but that is not the only truth A woman in Minneapolis has died as her neighbors fought Donald Trump’s mass deportation operation. On Wednesday morning, a group of local civilian protesters gathered around […]
Featuring Wood, her famous sidekicks Julie Waters and Celia Imrie and other female standups, this documentary is tender, moving and an absolute hoot There is a moment at the start of this documentary about the comedian Victoria Wood when you realise what she was up against at the beginning of […]