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
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Keir’s logorrhoea
The prime minister has a lot to say — but does any of it actually matter?
The memory wars
Poland and Ukraine must find some way to stop falling out over history
Farage the fumbler
Nigel Farage is not built for the highest positions of responsibility
Day of judgement
The judges were determined to maintain the honour of France; it almost worked
In defence of division
We cannot allow oikophobes and iconoclasts to define what it means for us to be united
English football is not boring
Greater competition is being confused with dullness
Andy Burnham’s empty toolbox
Britain’s next Labour government will inherit a state too indebted to deliver the interventionism it dreams of
The chairwoman of the board
A story driven at a whip-crack pace, pulsing with manic energy and nail-biting
The spy chief who sold us Blue Nun
Raise a glass to a long life, very well lived
