Marie Le Conte
Marie Le Conte is a freelance political journalist based in London, and author of Haven’t You Heard? Gossip, Politics and Power (535).
It was absurd we accepted lockdown
It isn’t just the parties that should make us so angry, but the draconian restrictions themselves
The eye of the storm
Marie Le Conte on the bruising experience of inadvertently becoming the target of a Twitter feeding frenzy
Alive and flicking
A game invented by a man named Adolph might have been a hard sell to the British public, but it was an instant hit
Opposing big government means opposing climate change
We need a market-led course to net zero
The expensive problem with the minimum wage
Higher wages for some, perhaps, but joblessness for others
The predictability of subverting expectations
What to expect when you’re expecting your expectations to be subverted
The death of conservatism?
Individually and collectively, we must choose life
Minimum pricing, maximum annoyance
No one wins when the minimum price for alcohol rises
The iconoclast’s last defence
Artistic excuses for Just Stop Oil are confused and opportunistic
A wealth of glorious objects and images
A new book about the discovery of classical sculptures and frescoes is itself a real treasure
What is behind the ECHR debate?
We should stop pretending that moral disagreements can be reduced to technical debates
Marianna in the trenches
She wants to dive into the murky depths of social media, but her microphone can only scratch the surface
On cockroaches and cancellation (w/ James Dreyfus)
How ideology is spoiling the arts