Once a habit that cut across class, smoking is now masochistic comfort for the dispossessed

A lasting love-affair with Chartreuse

Going viral with Allegra

The Wallace Collection’s Frans Hals exhibition shows the artist at his best

If Canada’s conservative party can’t hold together, they can resign themselves to opposition status

Ceri Black faces prosecution for tweeting that child rapists and their enablers should be stopped

Two political thrillers reveal the intimate cruelties of life under dictatorship

It was Schrödinger’s party: it happened, except it didn’t

Chris Bryant’s absurd rhetoric deepens cultural divisions in one of the most tolerant countries on earth

Imagine the Channel migrant crisis were reversed — who would the media blame?