I keep banging on the idea that modern journalism is all about The Narrative™. Everything you see and hear is motivated. Sometimes it is completely true, often it is incomplete and grossly distorts reality, and almost as often, what you are seeing and hearing is a hoax. In other words, even when they are telling...
Andrew Harding BBC Paris correspondent Getty Images Protesters outside the court in Vannes have turned out to show their support for Le Scouarnec’s victims It was supposed to be a defining, catalytic moment for French society. Horrific, but unmissable. Unignorable. The seaside town of Vannes, in southern Brittany, had carefully prepared a special venue and...