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It is surpassing ironic that the tragedy of the Rapanui and their extraordinary statues should now be farcically repeated

Communist dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu believed that Bucharest’s churches were in the wrong place. So he simply had them moved

She Said stands out and a French drama also shines at the London Film Festival

The Swedish star surely claims the crown as the most uninhibited woman in pop

A new exhibition explores the relationship between the artist and the photographer

The former Soviet Union countries are full of Russian speakers… surely they don’t all need Putin’s protection?

Netflix's retelling of a French tragedy depicts the humanity of events with a beautiful rawness

Juliet Stevenson is on spellbinding form in the title role of this long-awaited West End transfer

It’s a pleasure to see David Tennant back on stage, even if it has turned out Nazi again

From the very beginning, Sylvia Kristel’s life thrummed with an undercurrent of impermanence

This recipe comes from the chef at the restaurant Leroy - a reason to visit Shoreditch

Kylian Mbappé is becoming such a prima donna that he risks destabilising the clubs that pay his fortune

The stripped-down prose and raw honesty of Nobel prize for literature winner Annie Ernaux

As opposition to Putin grows inside Russia, a timely photographic exhibition revisits sites of protest against the old Soviet Union

Liverpool has a long history with Eurovision, and not always a successful one

After fighting the Nazis in the second world war, Paul Barrière fought to save his outlawed sport

A self-help organisation based firmly on the principle and practice of its members not being publicly identified by name has come to embody the exact opposite

Before the Romans arrived in south-west France along with Latin, people there spoke what we now call Aquitanian

The Queen's death may have silenced live music, but a new monarch gives hope of a bigger public platform

The Norwegian trio’s new album arrives with their legacy secure - but it hasn’t always been that way

A new exhibition at the Imperial War Museum raises a question about the limits of art

A new historical drama brings to life the story of a German duchess turned Austrian empress

Pearl Cleage’s homage to the steamy plays of Tennessee Williams seems awfully contrived

The home secretary would benefit from seeing this story of a family fleeing their native Afghanistan

The dismal artworks which have sat atop the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square bear ample evidence of how little contemporary conceptual art has to offer civic society

For all the remarkable events and achievements of his life, Brynner was always content for mythologies to propagate around him

Lie is a strong word and many seem to prefer to use a softer version, which has its roots in a term for fictitious stories

This week’s recipe centres on mussels: a beautiful, sustainable, constant ingredient in Britain

The tragedy is Indonesia is not remotely incomprehensible. They recur with dreadful regularity

Denmark’s biggest literary celebrity returns to the remote peninsula where she grew up

Why has the design of the bicycle remained largely unchanged for 150 years, despite the arrival of a number of demonstrably superior designs?

How an ex-WAG popstar brought and won a case at the European Court of Human Rights