Author Michel Philippot

Springtime is here, writes The Guardian, and the sheep are jumping. The Russians are at Ukraine’s door, which you can read in all the newspapers of the world—except Holy Russia’s……

It was a fairly typical week with its lot of misfortune: Valparaiso  in flames, a ship sinking in Korea, the indispensable international tension in Ukraine, some fun, the man and…

Subjects from around the world this week. English editors love animal pictures, but French editors think it’s beneath them, not intelligent enough because the hoi polloi enjoys them. Manuel Valls…

“Wystan’s telling us that fascism is creeping up all around us, and we don’t eve know! He’s telling us that we suffer from the Illusion of Normalcy. He’s telling us…

A woman on the ground in shock. Three men at gunpoint, their hands on their heads. Taken in Turkey and Crimea, these two pictures show the primitive brutality Mr. Erdogan…

It was a very commemorative week... I have my obsessions: —March 11, 2004. Madrid, bombing of the Atocha station: 192 dead, 1800 wounded.—March 11, 2011. Japan, a tsunami devastates the…

From Sochi to the Ukraine, the Gremlin in the Kremlin is everywhere you look. To hear journalists heap such praise on the opening ceremony, I asked myself what they might…

It’s a sad day. So many, too many deaths in Kiev. Maïdan will one day be remembered like Tiananmen Square, like Tahrir. It’s also a sad day to hear what’s…

Paris has been stormy in more ways than one, with its streets filled with protesters against gay marriage. The massacre continues in Syria, and in Copenhagen, God didn’t save Marius…

Three of the 28 photos, almost one-tenth, are of the same event, the protests against France’s recent decision to allow gay marriage. It’s a sad, perverse pleasure for me. All…