Penny Red

This blog now updates at  http://www.penny-red.com/ . It's been a fun four years at blogspot, but the new site is much shinier. Update...

As you can see, I'm still in New York, I have a marvellous new hat, and here is another round-up post. This month I've been writ...

(Image via The Daily Beast) Things that Jean-Jacques Rousseau really liked included: the philosophy of universal liberty, and having you...

"24 NOTES The Tsolakoglou [a reference to a wartime Nazi collaborationist in Greece] government has literally wiped out my ability to s...

I write and publish a great deal these days, and sometimes, like this week, there'll be a publication run where pieces I'm reasonabl...

In some ways it was the first place I ever knew. Seventeen, sick and living in a box-room belonging to an octogenarian friend of the family,...

Well, I arrived in New York, where I'm staying for a month, just in time to see the Occupy Wall Street camp torn down by the NYPD. You ...

Mic check? Mic check! Ok... Right now, I know that things are tense. I know that you're waiting for the word on whether or not you will ...

My third report from Occupy Wall Street, from yesterday's Independent. ****** They said it could never happen in America. At the foot of...

I'm in New York, reporting on the Occupy Wall Street protests. This was my first report for the New Statesman ; you can also find my cov...

Well, I'm back.* I spent two weeks on a tiny, beautiful ship, pitching and tossing in the middle of the high Arctic. I met a polar bear,...

I've left London, and I am sailing to a new island that has appeared out of the ice in the Arctic circle. No, this is not a prank. I'...

A drunk woman in a bright yellow tabard that marks her a right-wing organiser is crying on the pavement, as a yelling man is cuffed by the p...

I don't normally like to do this sort of thing, but the good people at Pluto Press have reminded me that unless I get off my tiny backsi...

I’m huddled in the front room with some shell-shocked friends, watching my city burn. The BBC is interchanging footage of blazing cars and...