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
Twilight of the hacks
“A Very Royal Scandal” and the emptiness of modern journalism
A nuclear nothing?
Is Russia’s new nuclear doctrine hot air, or an explosive new factor in world affairs?
Royals in an online age
Can the royal mystique survive the glare of modern media?
What’s wrong with the Human Rights Act?
It makes judges the arbiter of moral and political as well as legal decisions
The problem with EDI
Equality, diversity and inclusion policies are constraining free thought and dividing people
Brutalist beauties
These monstrosities were imposed on the population, not desired
The Warburg refurbished
The institute used to feel intellectually introverted
What do Labour think a conversion therapy is?
There has to be a middle ground between complete denial and complete affirmation
Bernard-Henri Lévy
France’s celebrity philosopher, war reporter and professional pessimist