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Laurie Penny

Laurie Penny is a contributing editor to the New Statesman.

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Lifestyle
07 August 2013

You carry on, writes Laurie Penny.

Newspapers
27 July 2013

David Cameron is wrong to try and ban pornography online when the casual objectification of women continues as a decoy for vicious xenophobia and social conservatism in the mainstream media.

Society
22 July 2013

Of all future subjects of our new infant overlord, none are more scapegoated than teenage single mums. Let's not forget about them and their children today.

UK Politics
20 July 2013

The cruellest thing about the benefits cap is not that it could make thousands of people homeless or force more families to depend on food banks (three of these open every week). It’s that it’s not really about people on benefits at all.

UK Politics
19 July 2013

Almost every time I speak to teenagers, particularly to young female students who want to talk to me about feminism, I find myself staggered by how much they have read, how creatively they think and how curiously bullshit-resistant they are.

UK Politics
09 July 2013

There’s no reason anyone should be herded into an archaic arrangement that does not work for everybody.

Society
30 June 2013

Men grow up expecting to be the hero of their own story. Women grow up expecting to be the supporting actress in somebody else's.

25 June 2013

The greatest fights for the future of the human race are fought in the territory of the imagination.

International Politics
22 June 2013

Laurie Penny meets the Russian punk-protest group.

UK Politics
17 June 2013

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

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