Eurofile

Small communities across Finland, Estonia and even Ukraine keep the Swedish language alive in unexpected corners of Europe

He never lifted the World Cup, but his intelligence and fight for democracy made him one of the nation’s most beloved footballing icons

It’s time to protect British science from political interference. Just look at who’s leading in the opinion polls

This Polish-Mexican bistro is a mismatch that probably shouldn’t work. But it absolutely does, and there is nowhere like it in Britain, maybe even the world

At 86, the author has finally written a memoir, and it’s everything you’d want it to be

A brilliant Nigerian Modernism exhibition shows the defiant beauty born from oppression

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is the most terrifying film ever made. So why did I watch it when I was 11, and why does it still have a hold on me?

It was the size of the Empire State Building, could move at motorway speed and was a symbol of American power

The San Ciro in Milan is legendary. But it was too shabby to host the Champions League final - which can only mean one thing

Joel Edgerton’s career-best performance underpins a modern classic that owes s substantial debt to Terrence Malick

Linklater’s film takes on thwarted love and the pain of looming obsolescence. It was easily my favourite from this year's London Film Festival

A lot of those ranting MAGA Twitter accounts aren’t based in the US - but the reason for that isn’t what you think

An account of the BBC Bashir scandal shows it could only have happened to a family mired in paranoid plotting

Eddy Payne is reminiscent of Ralph Richardson in a night full of fun and charm

Marianne Jean-Baptiste and Paapa Essiedu make for magnificent theatre - just ignore the tree

The reduction of female empowerment to a pink coloured, ditsy sports channel was not only a stunningly poor idea, but also grossly insulting

Digging into the detail and data to separate the noise from the news

I look at the way millions and millions of people use generative AI and it makes my brain want to shrivel and hide

An examination of other languages from around the world shows us that ownership can be signalled in rather more complicated ways

The Irishman had a rare ability to write about mood and place, to capture the rawness of what it is to be alive

There is no reason to suppose that we learn anything significant from the genetic data about what made the dictator the man he was

The German artist’s epic Paris retrospective reveals an artist who can’t be pigeonholed

Being right or wrong is not as important as what you do in the service of those opinions and how far you are willing to go

They cause groans and snobbishness – but in Paris, the impulse to photograph oneself by Monet’s Water Lilies becomes a gesture of devotion

Leonard Woolf’s The Barbarians At The Gate warns that tyranny begins not with tanks in the streets, but with compassion being turned off in the public mind

The restless historian was a victim of his own work ethic – and saw his dreams for British society smashed by Thatcher

The fictionalised version of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s torment in Iran is damning for the state, and for Boris Johnson

I love the band. But this incessant anthologising, dismantling and rebuilding is straining things

She won’t talk politics, but her career speaks volumes - and it shows her city is a multicultural success

The White Lotus actress is a registered Republican, but that isn’t a reason to troll her – our idea of liberal Hollywood is a myth