Laurie Penny

"Could they not have just had the meeting on Skype?"

The worst thing about this debate is that it turns a real-world, complex problem into a simple moral choice.

The young soldier has become a symbol of the information war and its discontents.

As one of the school’s scholarship exam questions shows, young boys are encouraged to think that humanity, compassion, even sense are secondary to winning. This is how we’ve ended up with politicians who will enact any policy, no matter the human cost, just so their party will win.

It’s not just about Jimmy Savile, or Stuart Hall, or the BBC, or the Socialist Workers’ Party, or two American high-schoolers crying in court, or three young women chained in a basement in Ohio, or one dead girl in a hospital in Delhi. After too long, people are fighting back against rape culture – and there's nothing worse than watching the bigots stand their ground.

Do we need to mourn every lost job without further comment, even in an industry that’s becoming toxic?

The left have been painted as tasteless, heartless people trying to make political capital out of Thatcher’s death. Only the government is allowed to do that, says Laurie Penny.

The pictures from Steubenville don’t just show a girl being raped. They show that rape being condoned, encouraged, celebrated. What type of culture could possibly produce such pictures?

Right now, the list of things we’re not allowed to say about the rich and powerful is getting longer - and not just for professional writers.

Laurie Penny reports from Cairo.

In the end, it was in our name.

We're experiencing a sexual counterrevolution that encompasses a backlash against women’s sexual and reproductive freedom.

How hard a person works is not and never has been proportional to a person’s salary.

When it comes to sexual violence, why should progressive organisations be held to different standards?