Tory policies – or slogans – are nonsense, but where are the left’s more practical solutions?
By Laurie Penny / @pennyred Hanging around outside the Houses of Parliament last week, angry in the way…
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The boys who cried fox
By Laurie Penny / @pennyred Stumbling out of my mother’s house early on Boxing Day in search of…
Brown was right to play the class card – but he must play it with integrity
By Laurie Penny Gordon Brown has faced near-universal disapprobation this week for daring to mention that the personal…
Can’t stop the blog: what the internet has done for ideas
By Laurie Penny This article was also published on the LabourList pages of the HuffingtonPost. The people of…
Iain Dale, gay rights and Labour’s legacy
By Laurie Penny / @pennyred Whatever you think about the New Labour project, there are certain ways in…
The PM, the mental health claims, and the characteristics of leadership
By Laurie Penny / @pennyred So. Rumour has it [well, Guido has it] that Prime Minister Gordon Brown…
Life, liberty and happiness: if this is socialised healthcare, sign me up!
By Laurie Penny / @pennyred This article was first published on the Huffington Post. My partner suffers from…
Harriet Harman’s idea that men cannot run things without women is misandrist and untrue
By Laurie Penny / @PennyRed Harriet Harman is right to suggest that having the top jobs in the…
Turn Left: A Review of the Open Left launch
By Laurie Penny / @PennyRed There are only so many ways round you can ask ‘what does it…
Undermining reproductive freedoms, sellotaping together unhappy couples and bribery – the Tory agenda for Happy Families
By Laurie Penny / @PennyRed The Family – what does it mean, this ephemeral concept that makes Tory…
