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
Setting ourselves on fire
Multiculturalism has created fractured communities where nobody cares
Toffs, trials and tradecraft
The best police procedurals unpeel the place where the drama unfolds
The future that never came
Post-war London was saved from a modernist masterplan
All the President’s toadies
American journalism lacks a healthy contempt for the ruling class
Civilisation versus barbarism in Kensington and Chelsea
A new book reminds us of the irreplaceable value of our architectural heritage
Forces of nature
Antonin Dvorak: Symphonies (Warner/Pentatone)
The warp and weft of women’s history
This synthesising project downplays the variety of experience amongst ancient women
The unorthodox Englishness of Derek Jarman
The filmmaker was too complex to be reduced to a mere iconoclast