What’s behind that enigmatic smile?
The author of a new novel about the Mona Lisa explores the history of the world’s most famous painting
Kemi Badenoch’s “ming vase” must be shattered
The Conservative candidate should not be allowed to escape scrutiny
A beguiling star who loved melodrama
Taylor’s hunger for money, flashy gizmos and flashier gewgaws found its echo in Burton’s need to forsake the classics
Tom Stoppard’s Hampstead drama
Best not try to memorise this deceptive Connect Four of relationships — just get into the flow
Kemi Badenoch’s bad spell
Badenoch keeps bowling lop hops to Keir Starmer
You reap what you sow
Poor Daniel Zeichner was left to face the outrage that the Budget had caused
Fiddling while Canterbury burns
The new proposals from the Archbishops’ Commission for Racial Justice are depressingly wrongheaded
Tough on the causes of non-crime
A warm welcome back to non-crime hate incidents
The new equality bar
Is the Bar Standards Council really fit to enforce a proposed raft of new equality rules?
The French far right are losers
Will Rassemblement National will ever be the ruling party?
Brooding blokes
Russian writers loved a pouting, picturesquely pained protagonist
Perfect victims and a tale of two films
Don’t idealise victims — listen to them
