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This blog has moved! 26 May 2012 | 02:57 am
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 your bookmarks! :)
Men, sex, journalism, armageddon and radical papier-mâché: what I've been writing. 30 Apr 2012 | 06:25 am
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 writing about, amongst other things, sex, politics, the future, nerd guns, p...
Chains of oppression: Katie Roiphe, Lena Dunham and the sexual counter-revolution. 23 Apr 2012 | 10:55 am
(Image via The Daily Beast) Things that Jean-Jacques Rousseau really liked included: the philosophy of universal liberty, and having young ladies spank him into a frenzy. In "The Confessions", he wro...
In Syntagma Square.... 7 Apr 2012 | 05:04 pm
"24 NOTES The Tsolakoglou [a reference to a wartime Nazi collaborationist in Greece] government has literally wiped out my ability to survive, based on a decent pension which I paid for myself over 3...
Women, activism, anger, and other things I've been up to.. 10 Mar 2012 | 11:53 am
I write and publish a great deal these days, and sometimes, like this week, there'll be a publication run where pieces I'm reasonably proud of will come out almost every day. Not only do I not want th...
A love letter for London 16 Feb 2012 | 01:48 pm
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, every day once I was just about well enough not to have to ...
New website, new city, new post... 17 Nov 2011 | 04:59 am
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 can read what I wrote about it for the Guardian, here (comment) a...
Dear Occupy Wall Street, 14 Oct 2011 | 11:33 am
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 be evicted from Liberty Plaza tomorrow, from the beautiful occu...
"This is Patriotic": marching on Wall Street 9 Oct 2011 | 12:22 am
My third report from Occupy Wall Street, from yesterday's Independent. ****** They said it could never happen in America. At the foot of Wall Street, in the belly of the beast of aggressive market f...
Bringing down the wall: Occupy Wall Street and the Brooklyn Bridge arrests. 5 Oct 2011 | 03:41 am
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 coverage at The Independent. *** The big bronze bull is surrounded...
