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
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Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
How the Southport riots broke Starmer’s government
A combination of authoritarianism and hypocrisy proved fatal
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
The Tobacco and Vapes Bill is a masterclass in self-defeat
Labour’s tobacco crackdown will fuel crime, hurt retailers, and push smokers towards worse habits
On a wind and a prayer
Beggaring ourselves will not cool the rest of the planet’s weather
Fell for it again
Britain’s pro-development enthusiasts mistook fantasy politics for the real thing — and are now paying the price.
Europe’s French nuclear shield?
With the NATO alliance under threat, will
Europe really trust President Macron’s
offer of a pan-EU nuclear deterrent?
Questions for the Munich hawks
It is wrong to use Neville Chamberlain as a byword for cowardice and fecklessness
An uneasy peace amid the ruins
Four million citizens of Damascus remain uncertain of what the future will bring
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
Worstall’s Corollary
Rare earths expose a fatal flaw at the heart of industrial strategy: governments intervene in systems they do not remotely understand
IPSO has to go
A regulator built to uphold standards has become a partisan censor — the right must walk away before it is too late
The slow vibe shift
Escaping our “post-cultural state” will not happen overnight
