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In the second of an exclusive three-part series for The New European, author Oliver Burkeman explains how we can bring about major transformation in our lives not through willpower and grand gestures, but incremental measures

It's been the most unsettling 18 months in most of our lives. In this exclusive three-part New European series, Oliver Burkeman asks us to take stock and consider what good can we take with us as we emerge from a period of largely unmitigated tragedy, sadness and crisis. Is it even possible that lockdown has a lasting positive legacy for us?

You might not be able to reach your favourite continental European destination this summer – or find a booking at the British seaside either. But you can still pay a fleeting visit to sunny climes with Steve Anglesey’s quiz, in which each answer is somewhere you might have been (or hope to be heading) in more normal times

In his latest diary from Extremadura, PETER BARRON describes the village next door which first lured him to Spain

As the US once again swelters through a record-breaking hot summer, climate change historian Alice Bell looks back at the events in mid-1988, when the debate over global warming decisively shifted

Death In Venice made him one of the most recognisable faces on the planet. "That was when the madness started," says Bjorn Andresen today

As elusive as they are exclusive, superyachts are the world's most glaring symbols of uber-wealth. Gemma Fottles explores the economics behind them

Can the Eurovision winners continue their artistic progression as they climb the UK charts?

Actor Stanley Tucci's Searching For Italy is the food travel show we need right now

Bernard Arnault and François Pinault, two of France's richest men and the powers behind some of the world's most glamourous brands, fell out in a business dispute 20 years ago.

Charlie Connelly offers his selection of perfect holiday reading, from the latest new European paperbacks

The uncaring tyrant of legend may actually have been a pragmatic politician betrayed and then belittled by his opponent

Images of Ian Botham with his bat aloft and the pageantry of the Royal Wedding have created a popular memory of 1981 as a summer of national pride for Britain. But the reality was quite different

Looking back at one of the most notorious episodes in the Games' history, when sport and politics combined in ferocious violence

As he approaches 70, the veteran coach is ready to make the orange brilliant again

Those who feared that taking on the Dane at the age of 82 would be a mistake can rest easy - this is a triumph

The buildings and monuments of Antwerp can still take your breath away. But in a long-ago golden age, it was the centre of Europe

The roots of author J R R Tolkien’s name are almost as tangled as his fantasy fiction.

The daughter of a Tiller Girl from Oldham, Jeanne Moreau came to be considered "the greatest actress in the world"

Will Self goes to Gravesend and finds out what drew Sikhs there in the days when newspapers were king

Tim Walker reviews South Pacific at Chichester Festival Theatre and Be More Chill at Shaftesbury Theatre

Covid travel restrictions have dealt a serious blow to the import of holiday tunes from the continent

Rob Hughes asks how long Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi will stay at the top before they finally retire from football Some day, Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo will cease being the most extraordinarily gifted among more than 250 million men and women playing football around the world. Their body clocks are ticking. They face […]

PETER TRUDGILL on how one place name came to have two very different word associations Bethlehem is associated with the nativity of Christ, peace on earth and goodwill to all men. Bedlam is associated with the complete opposite: mad confusion and noisy uproar. It is something of a surprise to discover that they were originally the same word. […]

Berlin journalist Annette von Broecker’s life has spanned her city's division and reunification

Instead of watching England in the Euros, WILL SELF went walking around London… and noticed something interesting about his fellow football sceptics Errol over the park coaches local lads in football – most of them black British. He’s pretty successful, and has placed at least 20 over the past decade or so as juniors with […]

The film festival defies the pandemic with plenty of touching, flesh and sex

‘Thank you’ might seem an easy phrase to learn in a foreign language. But that is not always the case says PETER TRUDGILL Sometimes, when people are going to visit a country they have never been to before, they say they plan to learn a little of the language which is spoken there, but “just […]

Nina Hamnett's artistic career shone brilliantly and briefly, until overshadowed by her lifestyle. A new show restores the focus on her work

How can pop respond to politics? With this year’s album BRUT, Polish alt-pop star Brodka has provided an object lesson, writes SOPHIA DEBOICK

TIM WALKER reviews a theatre production that held its own against the drama provided by the Three Lions

TIM WALKER on an ebullient show that creates an emotional occasion