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).
The eye of the storm
Marie Le Conte on the bruising experience of inadvertently becoming the target of a Twitter feeding frenzy
Et tu, Brute?
I shouldn’t have read through the list of my accusers, but I did
Slow death of the know-it-all
Peter Burke’s new book helpfully provokes the reader to think about the proper place of a broad education in an age unfriendly to polymathy
The Government’s NIP options
Government discussions on the Northern Ireland Protocol have resolved into three options
The gifts that keep on giving
Part of the magic of Christmas is how it pulls you back towards your home—if not physically, then at least in spirit
The red hand gang
Patrick Galbraith says field sports are a boon for male friendship
Edward Elgar: Partsongs, From the Bavarian Highlands (BR Klassik)
The Bavarian Radio singers’ command of English will have to improve when Sir Simon Rattle arrives to take over
Steve Baker: Boris’s leadership “on the table” without lockdown exit plan
Distance between Downing Street and Tory lockdown sceptics widening as Baker writes to CRG MPs
A question of taste
Rex Whistler’s Tate mural should be seen more as an ironic Rococo fantasy than the work of a racist
Why contemporary feminists are wrong about policing children’s television
Once we start using the political concerns of the adult world to moralise about the imaginative realm of children, we’re in trouble
Free speech is under threat in Northern Ireland
New hate crime proposals could make Northern Ireland the least free part of the UK