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Louise Daphne Mensch (née Bagshawe; geb. 28. Juni 1971 in London) ist eine britische Autorin, Journalistin und Politikerin. Sie war vom 6. Mai 2010 bis 29. August 2012 für Corby Abgeordnete im House of Commons.

She was the Conservative MP for Corby from 2010 to 2012.

Early life

Mensch was born in London, England, the daughter of Nicholas Wilfrid Bagshawe and Daphne Margaret Triggs, and was raised a Catholic. She was educated at Beechwood Sacred Heart School, Tunbridge Wells, and Woldingham School, a Catholic girls' boarding school in Surrey. She read English Language and Literature at Christ Church, Oxford and was Secretary of the Oxford Union.

She has a brother and two sisters, one of whom, Tilly, is a freelance journalist and author.

Writing career

Following a six-month internship at MTV Europe she worked as a press officer with EMI Records, and then as a marketing official for Sony Music.

Her first novel, Career Girls, was published in 1995 and has been followed by 16 subsequent works in the chick lit genre aimed at young women. She has defended chick lit against allegations, specifically by psychologist Susan Quilliam, that the books cause irrationally high expectations which "ruin readers' lives" by saying that such books merely make readers raise their standards.

Political career

With parents who were active in the party, Mensch had joined the Conservatives when she was 14. Subsequently, in 1996, she switched to the Labour Party, saying she believed Tony Blair to be "socially liberal but an economic Tory". By 1997 she had returned to the Conservatives, helped her mother, Daphne, win a seat in East Sussex County Council from the Liberal Democrats, and campaigned in the 1997, 2001 and 2005 general elections. In 2001, Mensch co-founded the Oxonian Society, later renamed the Hudson Union Society, with Joseph Pascal and Princess Badiya bint El Hassan of Jordan.

Mensch was placed on the A-List of Conservative candidates in 2006. In October 2006 she was selected to stand in the constituency of Corby, which she won in the 2010 general election with a majority of 1,951, defeating Labour incumbent Phil Hope. In June 2010 she was elected by other Conservative MPs to serve on the Select Committee for the Department of Culture, Media and Sport.

She believes the 2004 fox hunting ban should be repealed on civil liberties grounds, and that its debate and implementation was a waste of Parliamentary time. Mensch advocates "reality-based feminism", in particular "Conservative feminism" or "Tory feminism", and is critical of Britain's "modern feminist movement" (including Equality impact assessment), which see calls "ultra-feminism" and contrasts unfavourably with "American feminism".

Phone hacking scandal

On 19 July 2011, in the House of Commons Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee, Mensch took part in the questioning of James and Rupert Murdoch over the News of the World phone hacking scandal.

Political blogger Bagehot in The Economist named Mensch as the "surprise star" of the hearing saying her "sharp, precise, coolly scornful questions" contrasted with her "waffling, pompous" fellow committee members. Mensch later faced criticism for incorrectly claiming during the committee that Piers Morgan had written in his autobiography about conducting phone hacking while he was the editor of the Daily Mirror. When challenged on CNN by Morgan, Mensch cited the protection of parliamentary privilege and refused to withdraw the allegation; however, she also refused to openly repeat it. She later apologised to Morgan, claiming that she had misread a newspaper report about the book.

Three days later Mensch received an email alleging that she had taken a controlled substance with Nigel Kennedy at Ronnie Scott's club in Birmingham in the 1990s while working as a press officer for EMI Records. Mensch publicly released the email and admitted the allegations were "highly probable", but said she regretted only that others had to see her dancing and would not be deterred from asking further questions about phone hacking. She subsequently admitted using class A drugs in The Sunday Times.

The Culture, Media and Sport select committee finalised its report in April 2012. Mensch disagreed publicly with Tom Watson and Paul Farrelly, two Labour members of the committee, over whether the conclusion that Rupert Murdoch was unfit to run an international company, had been discussed before Watson tabled a Commons amendment on 30 April. Mensch and the other three Conservative members of the committee had opposed it, and could not support the report with the MP herself saying the report had become "partisan" as a result of the statement's inclusion. Mensch insisted on Newsnight on 2 May that it had not been discussed and was not part of its remit. Watson later accused Mensch of tabling pro-Murdoch amendments which would have "exonerated" James Murdoch in the report and, in Twitter exchanges with her, alleged private committee conversations had been leaked to News Corp.

Resignation

On 6 August 2012, Mensch announced her decision to resign as the MP for Corby to spend more time with her family in New York City. Mensch had appeared likely to be promoted in the expected September government reshuffle. She told her local newspaper that she had intended to stand down at the next election, but brought the date forward as she was concerned her children would be too settled in Britain by then. She was appointed to the nominal position of Crown Steward and Bailiff of the Manor of Northstead on 29 August 2012, thus vacating her seat.

Control of social networking

Following the rioting in England Mensch called for social media services Twitter and Facebook to be shut down or to "take an hour off" during disturbances to stop the spread of false rumours wasting police resources. She compared the action with brief interruptions to road and rail networks during emergencies. However, other Twitter users compared such action to the online censorship of regimes such as Iran and China, whilst Sussex police said they had used Twitter to stop rumours.

In June 2012, a man was given a 26-week prison sentence suspended for two years for sending Mensch an offensive and threatening email including threats against her children. Following his conviction, Mensch called for networking sites to identify anonymous bullies saying it was impossible for the victim to ascertain the seriousness of the threat posed, while the bullies felt they could do as they pleased without fear of retribution.

Cyberbullying

In May 2012, Mensch used her Twitter account to condemn abusive and threatening tweets that she had received, describing them as "misogyny and bullying". The tweets were subsequently reported in the mainstream press, and she received support for drawing attention to the issue from Jeremy Vine and Isabel Hardman, among others. In March 2014, Mensch was herself accused of cyberbullying after she sent a series of tweets to a journalist, which included personal remarks about his appearance.

In May 2015, after that year's general election, Mensch was accused of cyberbullying Abby Tomlinson, the teenaged leader of the 'Milifandom'. Mensch denied the accusation, asserting that she had only criticised Tomlinson. Shortly afterwards, she wrote a 4,000-word blog entry to reiterate that she had not bullied Tomlinson and made new assertions about the sixth-form student.

Commentary on the 2016 U.S. Presidential election

FISA warrant claim

In November 2016, Heat Street published an article titled “EXCLUSIVE: FBI 'Granted FISA Warrant' Covering Trump Camp's Ties To Russia”, written by Louise Mensch. This article claimed that the alleged FISA warrant giving permission to investigate the Trump campaign, was granted in October 2016, in "connection with the investigation of suspected activity between the server [in Trump Tower] and two banks, SVB Bank and Alfa Bank." The article also alleged that "it is thought in the intelligence community that the warrant covers any ‘US person’ connected to this investigation, and thus covers Donald Trump and at least three further men."

The BBC and the Guardian later separately published similar stories, and unnamed former officials have told the Guardian that "the Mensch and BBC account of the Fisa warrants was correct." The Heat Street and BBC stories were later cited by the Trump administration as evidence for the its claim of having been wiretapped by the Obama administration. According to Heat Street, Trump's allegations "appeared to confirm" Mench's earlier story, although her article neither mentioned wiretapping, nor alleged any wrongdoing by the FBI or the Obama administration. According to the Washington Post however, the BBC's account differed substantially from that of Mensch, since the BBC alleged that: "Neither Mr Trump nor his associates are named in the FISA order, which would only cover foreign citizens or foreign entities — in this case the Russian banks." The Post stated that since no major US outlet has been able to confirm the existence of "a FISA warrant related to the Trump campaign," despite months of effort, "one has to take this claim with a huge dose of skepticism." The server itself, the Post noted that the server may have actually been located in Philadelphia and that, according to the FBI, the server traffic between the Trump Organization and two Russian banks could be explained by "marketing emails or spam."

Criticism for conspiracy theories

During and after after the 2016 US presidential election, Mensch's political commentary has been criticized for promoting conspiracy theories about the Russian government, Donald Trump and people in Trump's circle.

Mensch has claimed that Vladimir Putin poisoned Andrew Breitbart to make room for Steve Bannon, that "Bannon and his team" are behind bomb threats to Jewish community centres, that Russian intelligence planted Hillary Clinton's emails on Anthony Weiner's laptop, and that the 2017 Istanbul nightclub shooting was a Russian false flag operation. Mensch has called for "precision bombing raids" and "massive cyber war" in response to Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections. She has been criticized for dismissing people she disagrees with a "pro-Kremlin" propagandists or agents.

Columnist

After leaving Parliament, Louise Mensch began working as an independent journalist and also wrote articles for several newspapers, including the The Times and The Sun. In May 2014, she started developing new digital projects for News Corporation, including Heat Street, a libertarian news, opinion and commentary website. On Heat Street, Mensch voiced her support for the movement involved in the Gamergate controversy, claiming that the controversy was a result of "falsely accused young men" and that it had "divided the feminists...and the fauxminists".

Internet ventures

In June 2012, Louise Mensch joined forces with former Labour digital adviser Luke Bozier to set up a Social Networking website – a politics-based rival to Twitter. The site, named Menshn – pronounced "mention" – allowed users to select their topic of interest. Mensch hoped to raise venture capital finance. After its launch, Mumsnet made Mensch a featured blogger on its blog network. The site was slated by IT industry experts for its lack of security. Menshn closed in February 2013.

After the closure of Menshn, Louise Mensch announced she was setting up a style and fashion blog called Unfashionista. The website was covered widely in the British press; The Guardian, The Independent, The Daily Telegraph, Daily Mail and others all ran articles giving it mixed reviews. One of Mensch's pieces on Unfashionista was a reaction to allegedly sexist comments by Nobel Prize winner Tim Hunt. After researching the backgrounds of various people involved in the luncheon at which he spoke, Mensch wrote an exhaustive blog post criticizing the ethics of Connie St Louis, Deborah Blum and Ivan Oransky, the first three journalists to condemn Hunt's speech.

Personal life

In 2000, she married Anthony LoCicero, an Anglo-Italian Catholic property speculator. They have three children, but separated in 2009. The marriage ended in divorce. In June 2011, she married music manager Peter Mensch, whom she had first met twenty years earlier.

Louise Mensch is diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, which made her realise she was "self medicating" with wine for stress, and she has now almost completely given up alcohol. She also commented that taking hard drugs in the 1990s "messed with [her] brain and had long-term mental health effects."

Bibliography

Novels

Writing as Louise Bagshawe:

• Career Girls (1995)
• The Movie (1996) aka Triple Feature
• Tall Poppies (1997)
• Venus Envy (1998)
• A Kept Woman (2000) aka For All the Wrong Reasons
• When She Was Bad... (2001)
• The Devil You Know (2003)
• Monday's Child (2004) aka The Go–To Girl
• Tuesday's Child (2005)
• Sparkles (2006)
• Glamour (2007)
• Glitz (2008)
• Passion (2009)
• Desire (2010)
• Destiny (2011)

Writing as Louise Mensch:

• Beauty (2014)
• Career Game (2015)

Anthology

• Five Romantic Reads (2005; with Donna Hay, Laura Wolf, Jane Elizabeth Varley and Stella Chaplin)

Einzelnachweise

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