Artillery Row

Empire of the Imagination

Historical metafiction

What might have been: an alternative Boris interview

Extreme wealth, Netflix fame, and a completed Shakespeare biography

Nastasia Khrushcheva: Normal Music (Melodiya)

In troubled times for Russia, this album hints at the future of the country’s music

Buccaneer of the Antarctic

The heroic age of polar exploration ended with Shackleton’s death

Pandemic panic on the River Plate

Going mano e mano with the malady of Montevideo

Humanity, red in tooth and claw

The Francis Bacon exhibition revels in the animalistic side of mankind

Misguided or misgendered?

Police are investigating a woman for raising safeguarding concerns about Girl Guide commissioner Monica Sulley

Southern discomfort

Has rugby league finally given up on London?

Sinn Féin’s shame

The Irish republican movement’s dark history of sexual abuse and cover-up

A fond farewell to Barry Cryer

His death is a loss for the English comic tradition