Arts and Culture

Jonas Fjeld kicked off his career by trying to make the worst record in history. This year, he now celebrates 50 years of success in the industry

How two different forms of the Celtic language continue to influence modern surnames and pronunciations

This production misses the opportunity for laughs and instead its themes verge on patronising

This well-intentioned production, sadly, lacks any real drama

This recipe is enlivening, sustainable and far superior to salmon en croute

Robert Lewandowski embarks on a new chapter in his striking career

Hamnet’s Maggie O’Farrell creates another major work from one of history’s minor characters

Broad Peak explores the life story of Maciej Berbeka, the Polish mountaineer who returned to the summit of his obsession and, sadly, never left

Is it the small size of Scotland’s population that gives them a linguistic kink: a desire to reduce everything to the compass of a cosy domesticity?

There was far more to Anna Maria Pierangeli than what cinema-goers saw on the screen and friends saw off it

Discoveries of tablets inscribed with curses provide an insight into the language spoken by the British lower classes

To match one of these plump bivalves with ice cream is a risky move, but it works

In Rome, to remember the past and our common humanity, sometimes you must look down

The ‘cli-fi’ genre looks set to play an important role in raising awareness of the environment emergency

Another transfer window shows a sport increasingly at wild odds with the lives of those who follow it

In Ukraine a group of artists is confronting the conflict in the spirit of Goya, Dix and Picasso

Directness and realness makes Nathy Peluso stand out among the current crop of female rappers

The big presence at the Venice Film Festival's 90th birthday party was the streaming giant

Fast food or multicultural icon? Take a slice of European history via the intriguing tale of the doner kebab

This new French Netflix sitcom sets out to make profound and amusing statements about younger generations’ relationship with technology. It fails on both accounts

In normal circumstances this musical is the sort of thing that would have found a stage quickly enough and held on to it for months. These are not, however, normal circumstances

The Take That star is engaging, but a two hour 20 minute talk through his life story is quite the ask

He baffled and fascinated his critics, but the actor somehow became the absolute personification of insouciant cool

This satisfying breakfast is a stunning way to begin a day in the Highlands, providing sustenance abound for walks and loch spotting

In the north of Berlin, on the site of a little-visited former garden, lies one of the city’s best-kept historical secrets

Not for the first time, France's national football squad is going into a major tournament facing internal strife

A new exhibition reveals a previously hidden side to the landscape and marine master JMW Turner

Former home secretary Alan Johnson returns with a new novel and some dissenting thoughts on Brexit, Corbyn and Starmer

Sophie and the Giants are virtually unknown at home - but bona fide disco royalty elsewhere

Why video games may well be the first truly globalised medium

Microsoft's new software wants to stop us writing anything that’s unacceptable or offensive. But unacceptable and offensive to whom?

The word arrived in English in the 1500s from France along with the ‘bay-coloured cloths’ it described