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WILL SELF on the French far-right politician who emerged from a Jewish background.

On Christmas Eve 33 years ago, he died a criminal, but perhaps Hans Gruber should've been remembered for something else...

PETER TRUDGILL on the rich seam of history behind Costa Rica’s languages.

Food writer JOSH BARRIE brings readers a recipe from Wales with French roots. And, if done right, it resembles a Christmas tree.

The new festive release from Netflix is unwatchable. Perhaps all involved in the production had some serious tax bills to pay, wonders MEGAN NOLAN.

CHARLIE CONNELLY rounds up the best titles of 2021 and names one absolute favourite.

Powerful and poignant, the production is the National Theatre at its best.

Producer Bill Kenwright understands that the theatre is a place to laugh, and no more so than after this last year.

Intelligent, genuine and in control, Brussels has sprouted the future of European pop as we approach 2022.

Choral music can bring communities together and lift the soul - if religion is involved then that's fine too. But with Church attendance numbers dropping every year, is it time for some different hymns?

An exhibition of photos by Sefton Samuels evokes memories of football, long before the monied Premier League took over.

The Cameroonian soccer player has his eyes set firmly on the prize, writes ROB HUGHES.

Board games have grown up. The big issues of our age can now be played out on tabletops, and one popular game even predicted the USA’s messy exit from Afghanistan.

The master satirist’s complicated relationship with his European contemporaries is explored in a stunning exhibition in London’s Tate Britain.

Still, after 8000 years, Maltese music is centred around cultural eclecticism and originality.

WILL SELF on the naming of the Omicron variant.

Wolff was almost impossible to mistake for anyone else. Yet, he was in The Sun's obituary section.

PETER TRUDGILL on a law that displeased many people in the Czech Republic.

Food writer JOSH BARRIE brings readers a recipe to warm them this winter.

CHARLIE CONNELLY rounds up some of the best titles to give as stocking fillers – and put you in your loved ones’ good books.

This mesmerising and captivating production is as breathtaking as the film.

The highly accomplished actor drones on and provides a bore of a performance.

The Brazilian player defies age. He started with nothing and now plays for millions, still captaining his country 102 captaincies later.

The concept is fashionable yet controversial, exerting a romantic appeal on some and exerting deep atavistic fears in others. But at its essence, rewilding is a simple necessity.

Conquered, subjugated, occupied. For 100 years the Poles were under the thumb of one oppressor or another, but the country fought back by creating art.

The late composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim was known for Hollywood adaptations of his work. But European movies were closer to his heart.

Paolo Sorrentino’s latest movie is an ode to his home city and to the football genius who once graced it.

When it comes to becoming an icon to a new generation of moviegoers, Céline Sciamma has been there, done that.. and inspired the t-shirt.

Aspects of the show depicting the Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky affair seem so odd, different and plainly wrong that it feels like science fiction.

WILL SELF on his recent stay St Thomas’ Hospital and how it made him realise that the NHS mirrors the strange state of the nation.

It was in her art that she truly lost herself, but this didn't stop Amrita Sher-Gil from finding fault with her work.

Food writer JOSH BARRIE brings readers a recipe from a chef who captures London's endless multiculturalism perfectly.