1. Louise Daphne Mensch is a British blogger, novelist, and former Conservative Member of Parliament.
34 Facts About Louise Mensch
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Louise Mensch was elected Conservative MP for Corby at the 2010 UK general election.
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Louise Mensch resigned as an MP in August 2012 to move to New York City to live with her second husband, American music manager Peter Louise Mensch.
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Louise Mensch began working for News Corp in 2014, and co-launched its Heat Street website in February 2016.
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Zack Beauchamp, a reporter for Vox who has written at length about Louise Mensch, compared the conspiratorial nature of her output to that of Alex Jones, saying "I would say the closest analog would be Infowars".
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Louise Mensch Daphne Bagshawe was born in Westminster, London, daughter of Nicholas Wilfrid Bagshawe and Daphne Margaret Bagshawe, and was raised a Roman Catholic.
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Louise Mensch's father is descended from the recusant Catholic Bagshawe family, of Wormhill Hall, near Buxton, Derbyshire, and of Oakes-in-Norton.
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Louise Mensch was educated at Beechwood Sacred Heart School, Tunbridge Wells, and Woldingham School, a Catholic girls' boarding school in Surrey.
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Louise Mensch read English Language and Literature at Christ Church, Oxford, and was Secretary of the Oxford Union.
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Louise Mensch has a brother and two sisters, one of whom, Tilly Bagshawe, is a freelance journalist and author.
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Louise Mensch won a 'Young Poet of the Year' award in 1989, at the age of 18.
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Louise Mensch went on to a career writing novels in the chick lit fiction genre, publishing seventeen works in all: fifteen of which have appeared under her maiden name.
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Louise Mensch is an outspoken advocate of the genre, and has stated that it encourages girls to be ambitious.
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Louise Mensch joined the Conservative Party when she was 14; her parents supported the party.
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In 2001, Louise Mensch co-founded the Oxonian Society, later renamed the Hudson Union Society, with Joseph Pascal and Princess Badiya bint El Hassan of Jordan.
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On 19 July 2011, in the hearings of the House of Commons Select Committee for Culture, Media and Sport, Louise Mensch interrogated James and Rupert Murdoch concerning their roles in the News of the World phone hacking scandal.
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When challenged on CNN by Morgan, Louise Mensch cited the protection of parliamentary privilege and declined either to withdraw the allegation or to repeat it.
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Louise Mensch later apologised to Morgan, and stated that she had misread a newspaper report about his book.
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Three days after the hearing, Louise Mensch received an email that alleged, among other things, that she had taken drugs and danced while drunk with violinist Nigel Kennedy at a club in Birmingham in the 1990s.
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Louise Mensch publicly released the email, stating that the allegations were "highly probable" but said that she regretted only that others had to see her dancing and that she would not be deterred from asking further questions about phone hacking.
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On 6 August 2012, Louise Mensch resigned as the MP for Corby in order to move with her second husband, American music manager Peter Louise Mensch, to New York City.
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Louise Mensch was appointed to the nominal position of Crown Steward and Bailiff of the Manor of Northstead on 29 August 2012, thus vacating her seat.
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Louise Mensch compared the action with brief interruptions to road and rail networks during emergencies.
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In May 2012, Louise Mensch used her Twitter account to condemn abusive and threatening tweets that she had received, describing them as "misogyny and bullying".
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In May 2015, after that year's general election, Louise Mensch herself was accused of cyberbullying Abby Tomlinson, the teenaged leader of the 'Milifandom'.
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Former Labour party deputy leader John Prescott "tweeted that Louise Mensch's behaviour breached the Independent Press Standards Organisation's code on harassment", The Guardian reported at the time.
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In 2017, Louise Mensch was alleged to have harassed a number of individuals who have taken issue with the veracity of the various conspiracy theories she has espoused online about Russia.
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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.
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In May 2014, Louise Mensch started developing new digital projects for News Corporation.
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Louise Mensch left Heat Street in mid-December 2016, and launched her own political blog, Patribotics, in January 2017.
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Louise Mensch had claimed that various revelations vindicated her own narratives about FISA warrants.
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The FISA warrants on Page did not entail the surveillance of two Russian banks, as Louise Mensch had done, and Louise Mensch had not identified Page in her report.
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Louise Mensch has stated that the 2017 Istanbul nightclub shooting was a Russian false flag operation, with Russian intelligence operatives posing as ISIL terrorists; that onetime Trump chief political strategist Steve "Bannon and his team" were behind bomb threats to Jewish community centres; and that Russian intelligence operatives planted Hillary Clinton's emails on Anthony Weiner's laptop just before the 2016 presidential election.
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Louise Mensch disclosed in May 2016 that she was diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, which made her realise she was "self medicating" with wine for stress, and as a result, has thus almost completely given up alcohol.