Laurie Penny is a contributing editor to the New Statesman.

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Laurie Penny: A century of royals looking sad in expensive hats doesn’t take away the horror of WWI
13 August 2014
Light-shows and poppy-planting.
Cultural Capital
The Great English Novel is dead. Long live the unruly, upstart fiction that’s flourishing online
24 July 2014
My Cloud Atlas obsession.
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Laurie Penny on Gaza: As Israel’s assault intensifies, it is not anti-Semitic to say: not in my name
23 July 2014
In the Red.
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Laurie Penny on the Westminster child abuse inquiry: corruption at the heart of the state?
14 July 2014
Another cover-up?
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Laurie Penny on surveillance: Cameron's cynical appeal to three of the Four Horsemen of the Infocalypse
10 July 2014
"Criminals, terrorists and paedophiles."
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Laurie Penny on terror and surveillance: Oh look! There's a new bogeyman on the scene to justify online spying
03 July 2014
The spying increases
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Laurie Penny on the feminist writer's dilemma: how to write about the personal, without becoming the story
02 July 2014
In the Red.
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Laurie Penny on Facebook's manipulation: It can manipulate your mood. It can affect whether you vote. When do we start to worry?
30 June 2014
The corporate dictatorship.
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Laurie Penny on attraction and sexism: Why can’t we fancy Jeremy Meeks, the “fine felon”?
28 June 2014
New technology, same old rules.
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Laurie Penny on trans rights: What the “transgender tipping point” really means
24 June 2014
Something has changed.
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Laurie Penny on owls: Everything is awful, vote for owls
20 June 2014
Tweet Twoo incident.
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Laurie Penny on rough sleeping: A war on homelessness should mean shelter, not metal spikes
19 June 2014
Privatising pavements.
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Laurie Penny on Elliot Rodger: Mental illness does not excuse violent misogyny
30 May 2014
On Isla Vista.
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Laurie Penny on misogynist extremism: Let's call the Isla Vista killings what they were
25 May 2014
Why deny the obvious pattern?
Cultural Capital
Laurie Penny on the Windsors: Who needs Fox’s fake royal reality show “I Wanna Marry Harry”?
22 May 2014
The Windsors are the real thing.

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