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Frank and Percy lets the two old stagers do their thing, which is what makes it work so well

No self-respecting person of any sex or gender should set foot inside London’s members’ clubs

For all life threw at her, the writer never lost the last sliver of an innocence battered irreparably by events outside her control

Broad beans are in season, bouncy and abundant

Europe’s first celebrity is celebrated in a treasure trove of objects at Paris’ Petit Palais

An obsession with what the likes of Pulp Fiction’s Vincent Vega and Succession’s Shiv Roy read on screen

A master documentarian returns to Ukraine to show the effects of Putin’s bloody invasion on the lives of ordinary people

The language can be found in some unexpected places, none more so than medieval “New England” on the Crimean peninsula

Over the course of a year, a couple created a bracing, bizarre series of Polaroids taken in the bars of the Dutch capital

The devastating bacteria Xylella has killed 21 million olive trees in Italy. Now it is threatening more species, in more countries

Jack Thorne's telling of an early BBC struggle is unfocused, often boring and poorly realised

The anxiety over artificial intelligence is a distraction from the real threat facing the planet

With his “music that doesn't disturb” the German became one of the biggest-selling recording artists in Europe

The standard form of English used in the media contains a number of grammatical oddities not found in other dialects of the language

Carl Orff’s choral masterwork Carmina Burana was feted by the Nazis. But was he a willing collaborator or a canny survivor?

Like hummus and olives, two other central components of a train picnic in modern Britain, chorizo is almost as much of a cultural touchpoint as a sausage roll

The UK used to be the obvious point of entry for art and antiquities coming into Europe. But then we ostracised ourselves

Too many books about the countryside are over-written and nostalgic. But Rebecca Smith’s brilliant new memoir gets it just right

When the Soviet cosmonaut made her pioneering flight 60 years ago, she was supposed to usher in an era of Soviet “Gagarins in skirts”. What happened?

Even when it comes to humankind’s favourite pastime - world domination - we can’t claim any clear victory over ants

We want technology to be developed in a logical fashion because we want to believe we, ourselves, are logical problem-solvers rather than mere tinkerers

Divided by a continent and a generation, they never met. But a new exhibition shows the ties between Leon Kossoff and Chaïm Soutine

Cleo Watson’s debut novel, Whips, is the latest in a long line of raunchy romps set in the world’s least erotic place – Westminster

Communities can switch language – like the Irish who gradually gave up Gaelic for English – but they retain parts of the old one, too

The overriding atmosphere of Loti’s output is one of a lost innocence, a yearning nostalgia for a world before the corrupting influence of Europe

We have to some degree lost our way with burgers. But not always

Last month, the city of Marseille lit up to celebrate 30 years since its club’s European Cup win – a victory overshadowed by disgrace

Manchester City have been a constant parade of sensational footballers over the last few years, but none arrived in the same way the Norwegian striker did

The simultaneous elevation of the chip into gastronomy, and its demotion, via pulverising and reconstitution into the soggy cardboard substratum of contemporary British poverty, marks its nadir

So significant was her contribution to Italian film that it led to the addition of a word to the Italian dictionary: borellismo

The journalist Simon Jenkins claims the Celtic tribe and language did not exist. He is wrong – as Julius Caesar could have told him...

This is a fancy and complex plate of food because Hall-McCarron’s delicate and careful combinations of flavour are majestic, but with time and energy it can be replicated at home