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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Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
The torment and the tourists
Holiday-makers must stop enabling the abuse of horses in Egypt
Publishing has an AI problem
From reviews to actual books, creativity is being outsourced to machines
Fell for it again
Britain’s pro-development enthusiasts mistook fantasy politics for the real thing — and are now paying the price.
How to save your parish church
Be the Church you want to see in the world
Will London fall?
If the Greens take London, what might happen to policing?
Wunderbar wines
The love affair between British and German wine is an ancient one
Information rage
Jacob Siegel’s new book The Information State is profound and troubling
Zurbarán on Freud’s couch
An acclaimed new exhibition is full of overwrought symbolism and compositional failures
What’s so illiberal about “illiberal democracy”?
Viktor Orbán has been a political pioneer in Europe
