Marie Le Conte
15 April 2025
Contemporary fiction is getting boring
The most important advice I’ve ever given myself about reading a book: if at first you don’t succeed, give up
Read the full article09 April 2025
Why we should all game-shame Elon Musk
Young men used to worship Trump’s buddy - now they are rinsing him while he struggles on a video game livestream
Read the full article09 April 2025
What our language says about us
Our speech is a living, breathing thing, influenced entirely not just by who we are but also by who we talk to
Read the full article04 April 2025
Adolescence and the dangers of “government by TV show”
Should political leaders really base their world view on television shows they’ve streamed after work?
Read the full article02 April 2025
We shouldn't be shocked at Rachel Reeves and Freebiegate
Despite her promises, the chancellor has become a product of the Westminster environment
Read the full article31 March 2025
Stop worrying about a Le Pen backlash
Her political ban might boost the National Rally - but equally, it could now crumble. So let’s celebrate
Read the full article29 March 2025
Paris versus the populists
The city’s referendum gives Parisians the chance to have their say. Should Britain do the same?
Read the full article22 March 2025
Did the Covid pandemic change me?
Five years on from the first UK lockdown, 2020 feels alien compared to today
Read the full article19 March 2025
Dilettante: On the new entente cordiale
The entente cordiale was never dead, but it did limp on gingerly for some years. What a delight to see it thrive again
Read the full article18 March 2025
Why have so many people got ADHD?
If you are neurodiverse, there’s a strong possibility that the health secretary doesn’t believe you
Read the full article14 March 2025
Sadiq Khan’s winning policy
The Mayor of London pushed ahead with an idea he truly believed in and it worked – Labour politicians might want to take note
Read the full article12 March 2025
Dilettante: On embracing hometown glory
After noticing the negatives for too long, I've renewed my marriage vows with London
Read the full article07 March 2025
Don’t blame feminism for men and boys getting left behind
New research by a right-leaning think tank uncovers some genuinely shocking findings. But the answers aren’t in returning to "traditional male values"
Read the full article05 March 2025
It's time to put an end to impending doom
You don’t really matter to the world and neither do I, and that ought to feel freeing
Read the full article01 March 2025
How to kill the arts
Why does the government want to feed the UK creative sector to the AI companies?
Read the full article26 February 2025
The privilege of feeling like an outsider
As a Frenchwoman with Moroccan roots who has lived in Britain for 15 years, I don’t fully belong anywhere. But that is a privilege, not a pity
Read the full article20 February 2025
Kemi Badenoch is killing the Conservative Party
By palling up with populists and parroting their talking points, the leader has taken the Tories down a slippery slope to extremism
Read the full article12 February 2025
Why is French food in the UK so bad?
If even just one place were to open in a big city, and start offering decently priced, unfussy French bistro classics, they would become gazillionaires in a matter of weeks
Read the full article05 February 2025
The America we knew may well be gone forever
Even if the Democrats manage to get the presidency back in 2028 there is no real sense that things could return to normal for the US
Read the full article01 February 2025
It’s time to fight for the four day week
Donald Trump and Elon Musk think it’s a bad idea – what more reason do you need?
Read the full article29 January 2025
I'm going home to a place I barely know
I’ve spent a lot of time in Morocco but all of it, even as an adult, made me feel like an overly sheltered child
Read the full article26 January 2025
The dark lessons of AI
It might be useful for making Whitehall more efficient, but the potential downsides of the new technology are enormous
Read the full article22 January 2025
My cinema choices are a sign that both I and the times have changed
Everyone loves cheeseburgers but, as it turns out, really nice greens can also make you feel like life is truly worth living
Read the full article16 January 2025
Time to kick MPs out of the commentariat
Far too many of them have newspaper columns, radio slots and TV shows. As the US experience shows, nothing good happens when you give politicians too much attention
Read the full article15 January 2025
For the first time in my life I am a tech pessimist
What happens when some of the men behind big tech – Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg – start going in a direction that makes you feel nauseous?
Read the full article11 January 2025
How the internet broke our elites
Just look at what it did to Elon Musk – he bought Twitter, and it was all downhill from there
Read the full article08 January 2025
France and Britain need to learn from each other
Neither culture is flawless but, together, we could become more than the sum of our parts
Read the full article04 January 2025
This is how Starmer can communicate better in 2025
The prime minister and his cabinet have been quietly underwhelming so far and that is partially because they do not look like they know where they're headed
Read the full article01 January 2025
Our memories are too precious to be entrusted to tech firms
What is mere storage space to them represents chunks of our lives that would otherwise go unremembered
Read the full article27 December 2024
Hey, politician! Tell us your story
If you don’t someone else will tell it for you – and chances are you won’t like what you hear
Read the full article19 December 2024
Why is Starmer so afraid of free movement?
Refusing to negotiate with Europe to allow Brits greater access to the continent is a bewildering position for the government to take
Read the full article18 December 2024
2025 can be the year where we get the small things right
Much has been said about the increasing polarisation of people in the social media age. We need to remember that no man is an island
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