Penny Red

A much-needed holiday, which of course means that I'm running about like a blue-arsed Tory SPAD trying to mop up all the little bits of ...

I wrote about UKUncut, the intimidation of protesters, and what that says about the government's confidence in its own spending plans, i...

I am in the process of trying to write an article for ADBUSTERS about 'Revolution in the UK'. The question I was set - "can it ...

Hello, the blog. It’s been a very strange few months. Things have been moving fast and, due to an auspicious combination of luck, class priv...

Please note: I have received over four hundred applications; I am working through them as fast as I can, and will get back to everyone by th...

Good lord, a whole month - that's the longest I've gone for three years without updating this blog. It got to the stage where the gu...

Now the Pope has gone home, the left needs to rediscover the courage of its convictions. The atmosphere...

For months, feminists have been trying to untangle the complex knot of racism, imperialism and misogyny that is the Sabbar Kashur case, in w...

"Well, if you're not gay, why haven't you got that nice girl pregnant yet?" It's the sort of question one e...

Young women are doing disproportionately well in this recession. Girls have outperformed boys at GCSE and A-level for the tenth consecutive...

Despite an international outcry, Iran seems determined to have Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, 43, stoned to death for adultery. Her plight has ...

Today is the anniversary of the Peterloo massacre, when pro-democracy and anti-poverty protesters in Manchester were brutally murdered by m...

Yup, I haven't even managed to cross-post this week, because I became homeless *again* and had to scrabble for a place to live whilst fi...

Before the left gets too precious about David Davis' reported comments on the ' brokeback coalition ', we should give our sluggi...

Whilst we're on the subject of Britishness, here's something we can all feel proud of: cops without guns. The fact that we don't...

I've never given much time to the sartorial semiotics of sporting fashion, but one tight, hot pink tshirt has me fascinated. The tshirt ...

This morning, Vince Cable signposted his plans for a change in university funding , whereby graduates might find themselves repaying the cos...

When I closed the final pages of Francis Beckett's new book, ‘What Did The Baby Boomers Ever Do For Us?’, I found myself shaking with in...

This week, the press seems unable to decide whether the recession is going to be good for men and bad for women, or good for women and bad f...