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Thomas Cromwell dies as he has not lived, reflecting on sins that tarnish his soul

Shaw conveys both the public and private Thomas More in a period-perfect if patchy production of Bolt’s 1960 play of power and corruption

I can only imagine Vladimir Putin’s laughter in Moscow. Last week, Ben Jamal, director of the Palestinian Solidarity Campaign, told protesters at Westminster he wanted a situation where “they will have to lock the doors of parliament itself”. Three MPs — all women, naturally — have been given police protection.…

Dumas’s trio bring more mustachioed swashbucklery to cinemas, and the pop matriarch goes festive with an album chock-full of Christmas cheer

Stranger than fiction no longer applies

Brief letters: Overriding the supreme court | One of the only things that annoys me | Virtual country diary trips | Tory treats | Correct apostrophes | Feet of imagination

In just a few strokes of the brush the German painter introduces us to living, breathing human beings

The great Renaissance artist exploded into England on the run from anti-art crusaders – and his spellbinding portraits of 16th-century grandees are going on display at last

The dreamers and schemers who conjured up ideal futures, from Thomas More to Extinction Rebellion