Marie Le Conte
@youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com
jack of like six to seven trades / journalist, author, radio person, accidental art dealer, etc / [email protected]
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Hello! Obligatory pinned post to say that I'm a freelance journalist and you can find my portfolio at marieleconte.com and my newsletter at youngvulgarian.substack.com, and you can contact me on [email protected]. Always looking for fun/interesting work so do get in touch!
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Wish Halifax would drop the lip service to home owners' supposed disappointment in sluggish house prices. Just recognise that homes are for living in, not getting rich off, rising prices are bad, just like regular inflation, and better affordability for first time buyers is an unalloyed good thing
December 5, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Wish Halifax would drop the lip service to home owners' supposed disappointment in sluggish house prices. Just recognise that homes are for living in, not getting rich off, rising prices are bad, just like regular inflation, and better affordability for first time buyers is an unalloyed good thing
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2018, Russia: "Fuck this, I'm not watching a World Cup in a fascist country. I'll just wait four years."
2022, Qatar: "Fuck this, I'm not watching a World Cup in a fascist country. I guess I'll wait another four years..."
2026: So I guess the joke is on me.
2022, Qatar: "Fuck this, I'm not watching a World Cup in a fascist country. I guess I'll wait another four years..."
2026: So I guess the joke is on me.
December 5, 2025 at 6:39 PM
2018, Russia: "Fuck this, I'm not watching a World Cup in a fascist country. I'll just wait four years."
2022, Qatar: "Fuck this, I'm not watching a World Cup in a fascist country. I guess I'll wait another four years..."
2026: So I guess the joke is on me.
2022, Qatar: "Fuck this, I'm not watching a World Cup in a fascist country. I guess I'll wait another four years..."
2026: So I guess the joke is on me.
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off to a house party later so went to buy wine on the way home and now need to get ready and have dinner before leaving again and, given the state of the weather outside, I think it's fair to say that the temptation to just crack open the bottle and stay in to play Hades II is......consequential
December 5, 2025 at 6:22 PM
off to a house party later so went to buy wine on the way home and now need to get ready and have dinner before leaving again and, given the state of the weather outside, I think it's fair to say that the temptation to just crack open the bottle and stay in to play Hades II is......consequential
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Correcting an earlier error - “You’ll have to prize it from my cold dead hands” was not, in fact, a design suggestion.
This is the most horrific trophy I’ve ever seen. It looks like a cursed object found in a desert crypt.
December 5, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Correcting an earlier error - “You’ll have to prize it from my cold dead hands” was not, in fact, a design suggestion.
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in this week's column! I discuss what it took for me to become an Adult Gamer and I argue that you, too, should play video games: youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/we-should-...
December 5, 2025 at 10:11 AM
in this week's column! I discuss what it took for me to become an Adult Gamer and I argue that you, too, should play video games: youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/we-should-...
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FOR THE LOVE OF GOD USE HYPHENS
December 5, 2025 at 3:40 PM
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD USE HYPHENS
right, nearly finished my Big List of every movie, book, and video game I've enjoyed in 2025, which I'll send over in a newsletter just after Christmas, it's 1500 words long and I'll make it free for all do subscribe at youngvulgarian.substack.com if you haven't already
December 5, 2025 at 2:27 PM
right, nearly finished my Big List of every movie, book, and video game I've enjoyed in 2025, which I'll send over in a newsletter just after Christmas, it's 1500 words long and I'll make it free for all do subscribe at youngvulgarian.substack.com if you haven't already
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absolutely incredible big mood behaviour
December 5, 2025 at 2:20 PM
absolutely incredible big mood behaviour
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Reliant on a now three decade old approach to political comms. Equivalent to Blair copying Harold Wilson’s approach
This is exactly it. What's killing Labour on social media is "the mentality of the message". There simply is no way for the party to get back in the game without loosening up and allowing its MPs and councillors to start being themselves and saying what they think.
December 5, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Reliant on a now three decade old approach to political comms. Equivalent to Blair copying Harold Wilson’s approach
see that Variety's Actors On Actors is doing a Colin Farrell/Jessie Buckley mutual interview, or a "Marie derby", as I will be referring to it
December 5, 2025 at 1:44 PM
see that Variety's Actors On Actors is doing a Colin Farrell/Jessie Buckley mutual interview, or a "Marie derby", as I will be referring to it
two tech men having an incredibly annoying meeting next to me in the café and one of them just said "the thing I love about SEO is.....the culture", gobsmacking, beautiful piece of dialogue, would have struggled with it in a sitcom yet he just said it, in real life
December 5, 2025 at 11:20 AM
two tech men having an incredibly annoying meeting next to me in the café and one of them just said "the thing I love about SEO is.....the culture", gobsmacking, beautiful piece of dialogue, would have struggled with it in a sitcom yet he just said it, in real life
god the fun never stops, does it
A supposedly grassroots anti-migrant movement led by 'ordinary' women, which is backed by Reform and Conservative politicians and is regularly invited onto news channels to promote their views, is funded by a far-right group and has platformed a Neo-Nazi activist
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/05/t...
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/05/t...
The 'Pink Ladies' Laundering Anti-Migrant Views Into the Mainstream
An anti-migrant movement backed by Reform and Conservative politicians and regularly invited onto news channels is funded by a far-right group and has platformed a Neo-Nazi activist
bylinetimes.com
December 5, 2025 at 10:54 AM
god the fun never stops, does it
in this week's column! I discuss what it took for me to become an Adult Gamer and I argue that you, too, should play video games: youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/we-should-...
December 5, 2025 at 10:11 AM
in this week's column! I discuss what it took for me to become an Adult Gamer and I argue that you, too, should play video games: youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/we-should-...
ok Dorian got there in one neat post when my short thread still just sort of failed to get to the point:
It's revealing about taboos around racism that the visceral bullying racism of schoolboy Farage cuts through while the much more consequential thinly veiled racism of adult Farage doesn't. Many people need that veil and flinch when it's removed. You can advocate racist policies but not say the words
December 5, 2025 at 10:07 AM
ok Dorian got there in one neat post when my short thread still just sort of failed to get to the point:
column maybe coming on this but I don't hugely care about what 61-year-old Farage got up to at school? and I think that Fleet Street finally gunning for him is symptomatic of a culture where the gotcha/scoop factor matters so much that hidden past actions are seen as worse than current, public ones
December 5, 2025 at 9:54 AM
column maybe coming on this but I don't hugely care about what 61-year-old Farage got up to at school? and I think that Fleet Street finally gunning for him is symptomatic of a culture where the gotcha/scoop factor matters so much that hidden past actions are seen as worse than current, public ones
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they should have a separate color of the year for people who haven’t lost the will to live
December 4, 2025 at 9:14 PM
they should have a separate color of the year for people who haven’t lost the will to live
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It sure looks like Russian intelligence attempted to use military drones to assassinate the President of Ukraine inside an EU country.
Looking forward to more thoughts from Belgium on why freezing Russian assets is an escalatory move that might compromise the peace process.
Looking forward to more thoughts from Belgium on why freezing Russian assets is an escalatory move that might compromise the peace process.
Christ on a cracker — these seemingly hostile drones only missed Zelensky’s plane because he was unexpectedly early www.thejournal.ie/drones-dubli...
Four unidentified military-style drones breached no-fly zone to target Zelenskyy's arrival in Dublin
Gardaí are investigating whether the drones took off from land in Dublin or from an undetected ship.
www.thejournal.ie
December 5, 2025 at 9:22 AM
It sure looks like Russian intelligence attempted to use military drones to assassinate the President of Ukraine inside an EU country.
Looking forward to more thoughts from Belgium on why freezing Russian assets is an escalatory move that might compromise the peace process.
Looking forward to more thoughts from Belgium on why freezing Russian assets is an escalatory move that might compromise the peace process.
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hands down my favorite line from a book that provides no value add to the written word besides being, possibly, the most narcissistic memoir ever put to paper.
December 2, 2025 at 2:41 PM
hands down my favorite line from a book that provides no value add to the written word besides being, possibly, the most narcissistic memoir ever put to paper.
oh
oh no the plot twist in the latest series of Slow Horses
oh no no no
oh no the plot twist in the latest series of Slow Horses
oh no no no
December 4, 2025 at 10:59 PM
oh
oh no the plot twist in the latest series of Slow Horses
oh no no no
oh no the plot twist in the latest series of Slow Horses
oh no no no
finally looking through my New York film pictures (taken with my new camera! wahoo!) and damn if this doesn't feel quite fundamentally satisfying
December 4, 2025 at 9:14 PM
finally looking through my New York film pictures (taken with my new camera! wahoo!) and damn if this doesn't feel quite fundamentally satisfying
this is my last night in before a frankly horrific (and very much not purposely planned) run of seven nights out in a row, expect posting to get into a mighty downward spiral from Saturday onward, and only start recovering the Saturday after that, if we're lucky
December 4, 2025 at 9:10 PM
this is my last night in before a frankly horrific (and very much not purposely planned) run of seven nights out in a row, expect posting to get into a mighty downward spiral from Saturday onward, and only start recovering the Saturday after that, if we're lucky
considering developing the blistering hot take that actually you can't tell whether an American journalist is any good at writing until they publish a book, they're so intensely edited in the US press that you just can't have opinions on their actual prose otherwise
I just want to stress that this has nothing to do with the rest of the chapter. She has an epigraph, a bizarre intro paragraph, a description of Britney Spears dancing in 2002 and then a section about Donald Trump promoting birtherism.
December 4, 2025 at 7:24 PM
considering developing the blistering hot take that actually you can't tell whether an American journalist is any good at writing until they publish a book, they're so intensely edited in the US press that you just can't have opinions on their actual prose otherwise
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it is an underrated miracle of the 21st century that we really did massively, massively reduce bullying in schools
My experience as well. So far we're 2-for-2 on kids having a largely bullying/abuse-free middle school experience. Not without bumpy spots of course, but light years away from what I endured.
My hot take: the anti-bullying stuff has really worked, which is why conservatives are pushing back at it.
My hot take: the anti-bullying stuff has really worked, which is why conservatives are pushing back at it.
for what it’s worth I got roped into helping out with my sixth grader’s extracurricular thing so I’ve had more recent contact with middle schoolers who aren’t mine than I usually do, and biased sample/biased reviewer/etc but my verdict is that the kids are all right
December 4, 2025 at 3:15 PM
it is an underrated miracle of the 21st century that we really did massively, massively reduce bullying in schools