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Its creators may plead otherwise, but the world's biggest TV show rendered sex as grotesque and alienating as any puritanical religiosity

The Italian's driving walked the line between skill and recklessness but never crossed it

The use of ‘amount’ rather than ‘number’ when referring to plural nouns is on the increase. But is it actually wrong?

Unless you’re close to a credible Middle Eastern, Greek or Turkish shop in Britain, or are going out to dine, making your own hummus is perhaps the wisest move

Barcelona, heavily in debt, have managed to go on a summer spending spree

A stunning new novel captures the weight of history on a country rinsed with regrets

Ukrainian artist turned soldier Hamlet Zinkivskyi is decorating his war-torn hometown... on the orders of his commander

The most unlikely duo imaginable, Erasure are proof that genius often resides in British eccentricity

An olive tree older than the Old Testament is a reminder it is hard to get a handle on the real meaning of time

Tight, exciting and nuanced, new six-part Croatian drama thriller Four Strangers is a proper treat

In a difficult year for Edinburgh, Sir Ian provides an exhilarating spectacle - but there are joys to be found elsewhere in the city

We need the Fringe more than ever, but European comedians are finding the price of playing there beyond a joke

This year’s Lerici festival in Italy marks the 200th anniversary of the death of Percy Shelley with a celebration of British culture

Are markets ever a place's real cultural centre, asks our columnist

Celebrated as one of Europe’s leading fashion writers, the Italian was better known for her sheer presence on the scene

Many family names in Britain seem likely to have descended from bynames of Norwegian and Danish origin

This month, the fish is in the last throes of its season, but there’s still a fair bit about. Let’s make the most of it, then

HV Morton was a pioneering travel writer of genius.. and also a philandering, racist snob

With Nineteen Eighty-Four more relevant than ever, a group of Orwell enthusiasts – in special company – visits the remote house on the Inner Hebridean island of Jura where he wrote his dystopian masterpiece

On Washington DC’s grand 16th Street, an outdoor photography exhibition has brought a fragment of Europe to the new world

If Amon Amarth's Johan Hegg is a Viking, he’s one who is fully paid up to modern Scandi liberal values

A new Spanish Netflix series portrays celebrity as inherently toxic and destructive, and yet a natural ambition for the aimless disenfranchised young people to whom it is sold

Kate Fleetwood plays a delectably wicked Cruella de Vil for all she’s worth, but this is otherwise a dog's dinner

The story is improbable but star Scott Karim can make just about any character seem convincing

Sarina Wiegman, the mastermind of that Euros win, is steeped in a rich coaching tradition

Up in Scotland, my play about Gina Miller's court case against Theresa May's government over parliamentary sovereignty is causing quite the stir

Director Sara Dosa on Maurice and Katia Krafft and their love triangle with volcanoes

The time has come for Europeans to take back control of the world’s most popular juvenescent fashion statement

The Frenchman was no newshound but had a knack of witnessing some of the 20th century’s key episodes

Colonialists of all stripes have squeezed the island’s indigenous languages out in favour of Mandarin and Hokkien

Tartare with fine cuts of beef, from one of the Czech Republic's most famous chefs, is a new experience for our food writer

As the country faces its greatest crisis, a writer has delivered one of its greatest novels