The end of a postwar era in France too with the passing of Jean-Luc Godard, He was a kind of emblem of postwar French culture. Some genuinely interesting films amongst the fluff, which will be miseed… (View Post)

What a strangely successful country Iceland is. It seems to have received the best of a combined Anglo-American and Scandinavian, more Continental influence. We could learn a bit from that. (View Post)

That's extraordinary, because I was actually there too, going to a wedding in Paris. (View Post)

A good bit of anecdote reporting, from the press rather than TV again, because it captures a sentiment, simultaneously strong and low-key. "Victoria, 53, an artist, and her daughter Grace, 20, a… (View Post)

Exactly so, at least in terms of Russia staying together. I was going to post yesterday exactly the same - that the nonsense about "embracing the chaos" from figures like Applebaum indeed r… (View Post)