The self-effacing film-maker has never been an obvious fit for the Hollywood mould. What’s it like at the helm of one of the ...

For every elegant Nordic pavilion, designed by Sverre Fehn and completed in 1962, there’s an uber-neoclassical edifice ...

For the third year in a row, I have found a beautiful queen moss/large carder bee in the polytunnel in my garden in mid-April ...

The Mona Lisa is bound for a new part of the Louvre, which if she were alive she would presumably be very happy about, even ...

The latest exhibition by the British artist Liam Gillick, a 2002 Turner Prize nominee (and, with Sarah Lucas, Tracey Emin and ...

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The book centres on the author’s noble desire to illustrate the hideous treatment of lesbian mothers in British courts ...

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A man of intellectual arrogance and social insecurity with a contempt for ‘blue bloods’ who dominated top ranks of the ...

What are your memories of summers in Ireland and the year you spent here as a teenager? Those summers in Ireland were a ...

The Schengen system of free movement across borders for nationals of its 29 member-states symbolises the promise of liberal ...