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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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
In defence of the Freedom of Information Act
We should not let our access to information held by public authorities be diminished
Remembering 2020
It is important to remember what an irrational and hostile time it was
Do machines laugh?
The experience of amusement defies a reductionist approach to the mind
Britain must not liberalise surrogacy laws
We are already endangering women and girls
The Starmer strikes back
In a galaxy far, far from stable, Labour’s leadership chaos overshadows the King’s Speech
The disunited kingdom
The establishment must confront the disturbing realities of sectarian politics in the UK
What difference does he make?
Andy Burnham is not the answer to our woes because Burnhamism is not replicable
Jolly boating weather
The Gondoliers, English Touring Opera, Hackney Empire
Ancient bones of contention
The burgeoning and irregulated market for dinosaur skeletons
The real problem with rigmarole
A journalistic focus on proceduralism distracts us from deeper political questions
Not so good after all
Can left-leaning journalists finally acknowledge the challenges British society faces?
