Arts and Culture

The Northern Irish rockers on Brexit, Britpop and their blistering new album

There’s no one angrier and more uptight than a westerner who practices a philosophy based on bodily attunement and the renunciation of desire

Eclipsed by contemporaries like Garbo and Dietrich, it’s difficult today to appreciate just what a presence Baclanova was in her heyday

From ‘crispbread phoners’ to ‘Cheryl Coles’, many of the latest slang terms around the world have been coined by technology and global events

Links with British industry and French universities – through ‘rugger diplomacy’ – helped to turn Romania into a surprising hotbed of the sport

I missed out on the crispy pork belly from Cambridge brasserie Six, but you don't have to

A Dutch royal residence has been turned into a huge public art gallery – a lesson for other royal families, perhaps?

Full of intriguing quirks and anecdotes, Andrew Martin’s Metropolitain is nothing short of a love letter to a subterranean railway

Dalí! Hollywood! Rotten eggs! The German electro-rockers pushed more than just musical boundaries

Some on the left will roll their eyes, but redefining patriotism is something Keir Starmer should do. I want to be proud of a forward-looking, multicultural country

Researchers have just added another piece to the jigsaw that is a body from the Copper Age

Restrictions are hampering musicians' ability to work in the EU

Through hard work and determination the actress forged an exalted presence in the French screen canon

A viewing brings some shocking home truths about the state of the rental property market

For the author Maylis de Kerangal, reading one of her books in another language is like hearing a familiar tune on a new instrument

This mushroom recipe is worth cooking and good on a slice or two of sourdough toast

A tour of British and European slang of the past begins with old terms for drinking too much.. and feeling the effects afterwards

The city’s unloved museum of archaeology shines after a makeover that makes its treasure trove of objects sing

Oil is fine. Sport tells us so: whispering to us in our dreams, dropping subtle hints every time we turn on the sports channels

Simon Williams has written a very clever and thoughtful play with an unusually sure grasp of the human condition

To the end, the German remained convinced that revolution was in the best interests of the people

How direct contact with Welsh and Gaelic speakers left its mark on the migrant tribes who moved into what is now Germany

How a Swiss DJ and a British label turned an old tape of Bulgarian singers into a global underground hit

Leandro Carreira’s skill with shellfish and fish is expert. Here is his dish of tiger prawns with almonds and ginger

Italian writer Veronica Raimo’s remarkable Lost On Me is yet another example of why we need more translated European fiction

The German artist was an immodest man with little to be modest about

As the World Cup looms, rugby union is in flux. What remains constant is the beauty of many of its European homes

Cleopatra invented celebrity scandal, wrecked marriages and careers and – 60 years on – is still the second most expensive film ever made

The return of La Cage Aux Folles, the show that proved too much for Thatcher-era Britain

Portuguese comedian André De Freitas is on a mission to put his country on the map, one joke at a time

Girls need to see women in the role of coaches and managers at all levels of the game

In small town in northern France, the art of producing beautiful objects from shells is being kept alive