Mark Le Fanu
Mark Le Fanu teaches world cinema at UCL. His most recent book is Believing n Film: Christianity and Classic European Cinema (I.B. Tauris)
Art in Paris under Covid
Mark Le Fanu goes to the Musée Nissim de Camondo, the Marmottan, and the Musée Antoine Bourdelle
The literal gaze of James Tissot
An exhibition of the work of the 19th century painter James Tissot has opened in Paris
An adult view of monarchy
The artistic achievement of ‘The Crown’ has been undervalued
Israel, the ICJ and the plausibility of genocide
Commentators are misunderstanding the provisional measures of the International Court of Justice
An orderly and civilised society
The biggest missing idea in British politics
Knife-edge of the Western world
Vilnius is a serene western capital on a critical eastern frontier
When America ignored a slaughter
Whatever America’s flaws, its absence from the global stage leaves a space quickly filled by far more malevolent actors
Taking the liberal mask off prohibition
The case for the Tobacco and Vapes Bill is morally and economically unsound
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We found the prawns you so thoughtfully left behind the radiator, but there’s still something here, isn’t there?
Boris the Innocent
The Johnsonian lexicon has yet to incorporate the word “responsibility”
Labour’s economic policies are incoherent
Labour risks collapsing under the weight of its own inner economic contradictions
The Sturgeon delusion
How the former SNP leader inspired hope and then squandered it