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Cash crisis in the arts — what’s new?

A wildly funny and slyly subversive comic genius who deftly skewered the mores of Victorian England

On the outsize influence of small magazines

Far too many young people are woefully ignorant of the splendour and meaning of our rich ecclesiastical architecture

Filmmakers have fallen out of love with romantic movies, but it’s time to bring back passion to the picture house

Viktor Orbán has created a pipeline of support for his Fidesz political project by granting full citizenship to thousands of ethnic Hungarians in Romania

The rise and fall of the Sassoon family, whose yearning for social acceptance brought titles at the cost of success

The story of Burton and Gielgud’s famed Broadway production of Hamlet has been turned into a West End play

The world runs on cold national self interest, not cultural capital

The American linguistics professor who is forever at odds with his country