Alexander Larman reports from a half-liberated, half-imprisoned world

How the multiple Mona Lisa copies, and their prices, testify to the longstanding fame of the painting and its mystique

Michael Henderson on the old-fashioned music that the BBC doesn’t want us to hear any longer

How much will MPs allow the Lord Chancellor to “rebalance” the constitution?

John Self welcomes the reissue of three works by Brian Moore, one of Northern Ireland few novelists who can stand toe-to-toe with the contemporary greats

A.S.H. Smyth yomps to the scant, wind-battered ruins of the first British colony on the Falkland Islands

Lisa Hilton tries indigestible mac ’n’ cheese at a venue that should have gone the way of the tzars

Samuel Beckett is at his best when he’s being brief

Take a moment to enjoy your plot, says Hephzibah Anderson

Young people need to be taught resilience, not how to revel in trauma and fragility