Interview

Does the psychedelic drug have real benefits, and should it be legalised for medical use? A colleague of acid’s inventor speaks…

Charles Mason on how a post-Brexit duties demand has battered his family's historic lace firm

How can nations speak to one another? One British diplomat found the answer

Bafta-winning film-maker Mark Jenkin is back with Enys Men, and some strong words for the plight facing his home county

The French composer who grew up in a cult and found solace in the power of music

Jerzy Skolimowski and a donkey team up to create an avant-garde classic

Meet the pro-EU footballer who spends his free time helping migrants

A captivating movie about a fruit-farming family is part of a new rural film trend

The Cardigans' Nina Persson on Sweden, Britpop and getting back on the road

Anne de Henning left a career in Paris fashion to become a photo-journalist – and ended up recording ‘history in the making’ at the birth of Bangladesh

It is five years since the Maltese investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia was murdered. Her son Matthew talks about his family’s continuing fight against corruption

What attracts French film-makers to the DH Lawrence novel that scandalised Britain?

A collage exposing the dark heart of the British countryside gets a musical makeover. But what will the Europeans make of it?

The UK Jewish film festival forces us to confront the past, no matter how agonising

Welcome to Europe’s future, in which Britain holds a referendum in 2041 to rejoin the European Union

Florence Pugh excels in the tale of a 19th-century Irish miracle that comes with a very modern subtext

The Green Party MP hits out as the PM dithers over whether to attend COP27, and points to real environmental leadership elsewhere

Triumph at Cannes has been followed by tragedy for Ruben Östlund’s satire of the super-rich at play, Triangle of Sadness

The Istanbul Biennial rediscovers a tasty old way to beat restrictions on freedom of expression

Wim Wenders's classic film premiered in West Berlin 35 years ago. Today it stands apart from both his and everyone else’s work

British-Iranian Elika Ashoori considers what’s at stake for defiant women and girls in the country where her father was unjustly imprisoned

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

The city of light always looks lovely in films like Mrs Harris Goes to Paris.. but the truth about the French capital is a little different

It isn’t easy getting Charlotte Rampling to let anyone in, be they real people or imagined characters on a script page

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

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

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

As a new book about the Middle East by the BBC correspondent hits the shelves, he talks about the geopolitics of the region

When Weller and co went all French on us

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

President Erdoğan’s draconian punishments and indiscriminate subjugation of creativity have caused outrage and anger across the country

In a new documentary, French superstar DJ Laurent Garnier recalls his part in the birth of dance music and traces his career all the way from Manchester’s Haçienda to Tbilisi’s Bassiani