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From the revival of a London style mecca to TV’s Palm Royale, the decade’s trends are making a comeback

As Nena’s 99 Red Balloons turns 40, we look back at the best continental foreign-language songs that achieved cross-Channel success

SIR – Allister Heath (“Post Office scandal has exposed the elite’s contempt for Middle England”, Comment, January 11) nails what the majority think about the overpaid, unaccountable “corporate-bureaucratic class”. You see its actions everywhere. The same is true of the current political class. Look at Sir Keir Starmer. He was director of public prosecutions while sub-postmasters were being taken to court. It seems incredible that he did not know about th...

Tours for fans are now available of the house where the musician and poet lived for three decades

<strong>Brief letters: </strong>Englishness in Edinburgh | Yorkshire puddings | Jane Birkin v ’Allo ’Allo! | Jogging

Actress, singer, icon, bag.

Jeremy Allen, who interviewed Birkin at home in Paris for his Serge Gainsbourg memoir, writes a personal tribute to a woman “who made things happen”

Jane Birkin, the British actress who inspired Hermès' famed Birkin bag, died July 16 at age 76. But she never treated her namesake bag like a precious luxury item.

Jane Birkin, an actress and singer and 1960s wild-child who became a popular figure in France, died in Paris at the age of 76.

The British multi-hyphenate inspired the creation of the luxury bag after sitting next to Hermés chief executive Jean-Louis Dumas on a flight in 1984.