Why there’s more to ‘outsider art’ than mental illness
A new film, The Electrical Life of Louis Wain, starring Benedict Cumberbatch, comes to cinemas this week. Its arrival has been accompanied by the suggestion that the…
Why there’s more to ‘outsider art’ than mental illness
A new film, The Electrical Life of Louis Wain, starring Benedict Cumberbatch, comes to cinemas this week. Its arrival has been accompanied by the suggestion that the…
The big Telegraph Culture Quiz of 2021
Panned! The following all had the dubious honour of being awarded one star by our critics in 2021. 31 Which Netflix sequel, released in November, was described…
The big Telegraph Culture Quiz of 2021
Panned! The following all had the dubious honour of being awarded one star by our critics in 2021. 31 Which Netflix sequel, released in November, was described…
‘The Lincoln Highway is the best book I’ve read in ages’: Readers on their favourite books of 2021
As we near the end of 2021, another year that has been dominated by the coronavirus pandemic, many of us have found solace in snuggling up on…
‘The Lincoln Highway is the best book I’ve read in ages’: Readers on their favourite books of 2021
As we near the end of 2021, another year that has been dominated by the coronavirus pandemic, many of us have found solace in snuggling up on…
Benedict Cumberbatch on Louis Wain: ‘He’s a quiet hero in a very loud, mechanised Victorian world’
In the wake of The Electrical Life of Louis Wain, interest in his drawings is escalating. ‘When the film was released in Canada in October, I had…
Benedict Cumberbatch on Louis Wain: ‘He’s a quiet hero in a very loud, mechanised Victorian world’
In the wake of The Electrical Life of Louis Wain, interest in his drawings is escalating. ‘When the film was released in Canada in October, I had…
Jewish leaders to confront BBC over ‘colossal error’ in anti-Semitic attack coverage
It said that both the investigations agency and forensic linguist concluded that the findings show that, rather than an “anti-Muslim slur” being uttered, as the BBC claimed,…
The soul of Cobra Kai: the extraordinary, heartbreaking life of Pat ‘Mr Miyagi’ Morita
Nobody – least of all Noriyuki ‘Pat’ Morita – would have predicted Mr Miyagi’s afterlife. Four seasons in and Cobra Kai, the Netflix sequel series that picks…
The soul of Cobra Kai: the extraordinary, heartbreaking life of Pat ‘Mr Miyagi’ Morita
Nobody – least of all Noriyuki ‘Pat’ Morita – would have predicted Mr Miyagi’s afterlife. Four seasons in and Cobra Kai, the Netflix sequel series that picks…
Covid ‘wonder pill’ which dramatically cuts hospitalisation risk approved for use
Sajid Javid, the Health Secretary, said: “The UK has been a world leader at finding and rolling out Covid-19 treatments to patients. “This is further proved by…
Ice rinks forced to close as Britain records warmest New Year’s Eve on record
Mild temperatures have been recorded across the UK, with highs of 15.3C noted in Coningsby in Lincolnshire, making this year the hottest New Year’s Eve on record….
How Joan Collins put the ‘nasty’ in Dynasty
The line between Joan Collins, sexually provocative film star, and Alexis Carrington, ball-breaking man-eater, was a fine one, and the actress was happy to blur it further,…
How Joan Collins put the ‘nasty’ in Dynasty
The line between Joan Collins, sexually provocative film star, and Alexis Carrington, ball-breaking man-eater, was a fine one, and the actress was happy to blur it further,…
What’s on TV tonight: New Year’s Eve Party, Cobra Kai, and more
Channel 4, 9pmSitting somewhere between Porridge and Jimmy McGovern’s Time, Rob Williams’s (The Victim) deft, incisive and often very funny new prison drama does for prison officers…
To Paradise by Hanya Yanagihara review: an awe-inspiring work of imagination
About a third of the way through Hanya Yanagihara’s awe-inspiring new novel, the narrator of the section in question – a Hawaiian boy directly descended from the…
The Lost Daughter, review: a hideous holiday with Olivia Colman in this shiveringly intimate drama
One of the richest and most versatile strands of cinema in Hollywood’s golden age was the women’s picture: female-centred films, often poised on the threshold of melodrama…
The BBC needs New Year’s resolutions – here are six from me
But more and more of us can see that it is not. And the reason is that “impartiality” is an inhuman quality; it cuts against the grain…
It’s irrational to ruin our lives to save the NHS
The abiding vice of the Government’s handling of the Covid-19 pandemic until recently has been an obstinate refusal to look at the problem as a whole. Ministers…
Britons living in EU countries can travel home through France as Paris lifts road ban
Britons living in the European Union will be allowed to return home through France after Paris on Thursday dropped its ban on expats travelling through the country…
Brussels accused of ‘aiding’ people smugglers by opening camp for UK-bound migrants
Plans for the centre have been criticised by Belgium’s federal government, which is ultimately responsible for asylum and migration policy. But Sammy Mahdi, Belgium’s secretary of state…
Lawyer died after NHS device produced ‘four days’ worth of insulin in under an hour’
Mr McNairney, who was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes aged two, died on Nov 10, three days after Mr Craig discovered him in bed unconscious. His family…
Hundreds of Scotland’s Covid hospital patients may have been admitted for non-virus reasons
However, the SNP Government has so far refused to release figures showing the proportion of people classed as Covid hospital patients who were admitted primarily because of…
History book with Black Lives Matter banner on the front to be given to Wales schools
A history book featuring Black Lives Matter on the cover will be distributed to schools by the Welsh Government, as the teaching of ethnic minority histories becomes…