Nique sa mère le blizzard

In my latest for @Prospect_uk, I returned to the Pelicot rape trial. Gisèle Pelicot’s lawyers didn’t just win a case—they challenged the legal playbook, setting a crucial potential precedent against the retraumatisation of rape survivors. prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/europe/f…

A retrial in the landmark French abuse case of Gisèle Pelicot is a lesson in how rape survivors are retraumatised in court, writes Diane de Vignemont. prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/europe/f…

In today’s Lightbulb, Prospect’s free daily newsletter, Diane de Vignemont reports on an appeal in the Gisèle Pelicot case. Plus: alan rusbridger and Lionel Barber speak to Jim Waterson about his successful media start-up London Centric. prospectmagazine.substack.com/p/gisele-pelic…

In my latest, for @Jacobin, I returned to the Pelicot trial - which, this time around, took place in front of a peer jury

In France, 88% of rape cases are tried without a peer jury. The trial of Gisèle Pelicot's 51 rapists exposed what’s lost when justice becomes an expert affair — and what happens when ordinary people finally return to the courtroom. My latest, for @Jacobin jacobin.com/2025/10/pelico…

my latest, for Jacobin Magazine

With the spotlight on Prince Andrew’s alleged conduct, it’s worth re-reading Diane de Vignemont’s take on the Epstein birthday book—why does the media coverage focus on the men instead of the girls? prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/united-s…

Nicolas Sarkozy is beginning his five-year prison term today. A refresher on his Libya ties and the plane crash that helped take him down, by @diane2v in New Lines Magazine. newlinesmag.com/spotlight/a-pl…

As former French president Nicolas Sarkozy heads to jail today, read my New Lines Magazine piece on the 1989 terror attack that led to his fall ⤵️

Nicolas Sarkozy is beginning his five-year prison term today. Read @diane2v's look into the former French president's ties to Libya, and the plane crash that helped bring Sarkozy down, in New Lines Magazine. newlinesmag.com/spotlight/a-pl…

Had Virginia Guiffre been alive when her book came out she would have been torn apart. Again. That, more than Prince Andrew graciously declining to use his titles for now, makes me livid. This is where the conversation needs to go - back to Virginia. newstatesman.com/comment/2025/1…

"It is a personal triumph that she chose to speak up, and a tragedy that doing so came at such a cost." How we treat victims and how we allow powerful people to treat them isn't a "tragedy". It's not fated. We can and should do something about that. observer.co.uk/culture/books/…

Et vive la Résistance ! 🤡🤡

How could thieves pull off the heist of the century at the Louvre? Diane de Vignemont argues that the state made it easy — by cutting funding and hollowing out the institutions that guard cultural heritage in a nation obsessed by it. newlinesmag.com/argument/even-…

The Louvre burglars may have escaped with eight glittering relics of empire, but the larger theft has been unfolding for years, and exposes the slow erosion of France’s state-funded culture. My latest, for New Lines Magazine newlinesmag.com/argument/even-…