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Jerome di Costanzo is a French writer, analyst and journalist now living in Yorkshire. He specialises in politics, religion and philosophy. He is also a contributor to droitelibre – a liberal Conservative think-tank - and to surlering.

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Waugh, not awe for Houellebecq

Jerome di Costanzo 15 February 2012

James Warner’s review essay of Houellebecq prompts the author to try to simplify Houellebecq - more an old-fashioned satirist and moralist than a tired witness to the end of humanity

Religious secularity

Jerome di Costanzo and Rémi Brague 6 October 2010

Is there a difference between secularity and secularism? Are they both essentially Christian, or essentially religious concepts? An interview with the arabist and medievalist, Rémi Brague

To AV or not to AV?

Anthony Barnett and Jerome di Costanzo 1 September 2010

Should we be having a referendum on AV or is it a dangerous and pointless distraction? Anthony Barnett, who hopes for a Yes vote, locks horns with Jerome di Constanzo, a French conservative of Burkean instincts.

‘Britons never, never, never shall be slaves’

Jerome di Costanzo 27 January 2010

Brown’s national roadshow about Britishness was a flop – an expensive and ill-conceived project, initiated by a Fabian Society speech, which received an unenthusiastic answer from the population. The result didn’t reveal a new form of patriotism or, on the contrary, demonstrate any strong independent feeling.

Ethnic policy: reining in the mad horse

Jerome di Costanzo 21 December 2009

What Lisbon means for Europe

Timothy Garton Ash, Simon Zadek, Dennis Nottebaum, Victoria Curzon Price, and Jerome di Costanzo 9 November 2009

openDemocracy asked five of our authors for their takes on the passage of the Lisbon Treaty. Here are their comments

"You the People" Conservatism

Jerome di Costanzo

“My firm conviction is that we of the conservative camp must put ourselves entirely onto a democratic basis. After the collapse of the old conditions nothing else can provide us with a future and a justification except pure democracy.

Le Pen. La fin.

Jerome di Costanzo

Standing before a united front of euro-MPS who denied Jean-Marie Le Pen, doyen of the Strasbourg parliament, the customary privilege of presiding over their opening session on 24th March, the leader of the Front National reasserted that the gas chambers were only a ‘detail’ of the history of the Second World War.

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