Laurie Penny

Society

Can’t take a joke? Too right

• 19 February 2012
• 60 comments

Racist, sexist or homophobic banter draws its lazy humour from exclusion.

Society

Enough of this royal deference

• 13 February 2012
• 151 comments

Traditional BBC objectivity seems to have been suspended for Andrew Marr's hour-long propaganda roll.

Society

Compassion, a subversive idea

• 08 February 2012
• 136 comments

Britain is being refashioned into a nation which believes that helping the needy is morally and fiscally unaffordable.

Don't be fooled by the Fred Goodwin sideshow

• 05 February 2012
• 79 comments

Gesture politics are good for only one thing: taking the edge off public outrage.

Society

Occupational hazards

• 01 February 2012
• 27 comments

As eviction looms at St Paul’s, the protesters are struggling with the hardship of months spent sleeping rough. So is there a future for this global movement?

Why smacking children is no solution to social breakdown

• 30 January 2012
• 216 comments

My appearance on Channel 4 News, debating David Lammy's comments about parental failure and the riots.

Boris Johnson, Labour's lack of ideas, and electric cigarettes

• 28 January 2012
• 116 comments

My appearance on the Daily Politics.

Society

Why British journalists are taught to be dishonest

• 25 January 2012
• 63 comments

Free speech is shackled by the UK's libel laws.

UK Politics

The Occupy movement: three months on

• 18 January 2012
• 106 comments

The protest has become a network of mutual support for the lost and destitute.

UK Politics

Mrs T, unreliable narrator

• 16 January 2012
• 114 comments

There are many Maggie Thatchers, and which story we choose to tell says more about us than it does about her.