An intriguing media move today as Laurie Penny leaves her post at the Indy:
News: I'll be leaving the Independent in November and rejoining the New Statesman as Contributing Editor newstatesman.com/blogs/staggers…—
Laurie Penny (@PennyRed) October 10, 2012
Could it possibly be that Indy bosses wielded the axe? Or maybe £23,000 was just not enough…
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Ai Weiwei in China fighting the taxman…
“Under totalitarian rule, no one is protected by law. We will all be the same helpless victims. When a country insists on its lies, it’s time for an artist to bring forth change.”
Google-eyed-Dave
I can confidently predict that Mr Hari will be quoted as being sad to see her go.
Sorry, but who are you?
Sоrry, but whо are yоu?
He’s Spartacus. I’m David.
I for one am sad to see her go and you can quote me on that.
Who cares? She could do us all a favour and take Owen with her. Both useless lefty rubbish,wouldn’t pay ‘em in bent washers.
I have never known how Penny and Owen were given any credibility at all ! they are boringly predictable in their lefty ranting, neither possess a personalty and the standard of their writing is poor.
Agreed, she should seek a writing role at The Bunty or some other girls comic as her intelectual maturity is at that level…..on a good day.
So, in other words, she’s passed her career peak.
She’s too posh for the Indie.
I don’t get out of bed for less than a shit load of filthy lucre.
She’s probably joined The Daily Mail.
No, defo SKY, brokered by Steve ‘My integrity is all I have’ Coogan
Mr Coogan, Sir ! You are a man of integrity and I would like to buy all you have.
But only ironically.
Or she was derivative, useless and added little
The Nation’s Choice as an unpaid intern.
To be fair, she left the planet a long time ago.
I wonder if I can change my Twitter name to ‘Laurie Penny’? I’ve been ‘Mohammed’ for long enough, now.
I was only thinking the other day ‘what’s happened to Laurie Penny.’
Actually, tell a lie, no I wasn’t.
She just comes back like a bad penny.
She’s one of the outstanding talents of her generation, according to some bloke at the Staggers.
Perhaps he means as a comedian.
Like a bad shit more like that won’t flush away.
She’s one of the outstanding talents of her generation, according to some bloke at the Staggers.
Perhaps he means as a comedian.
At giving blow jobs to senior editors perhaps.
Not from the likes of her thank you . Would nt touch with an extended barge pole ( showing off again – geddit )
No one knows where she s been .
Anyway no redeeming features ( physical or cerebral )
No — much better off with the cultured ladies at the Curzon Street House of Many Delights .
a ) they re professionals and b) they get checked thrice a week .
Or should that be ‘betoke’? The senility is really kicking in…
NBG
Perhaps it’s because she’s shit at the job?
So’s Polly but she’s still there.
Yeah but Polly ‘s “old money”
This frump is just an “arriviste”
My new book, “How To Get Stinking Rich Being A Socialist” will be out shortly.
“A must read for any toerag out to milk the system for all it’s worth! Thoroughly recommended” Neil Kinnock
maybe the indi realised how bad she was at last. mind you not a good career move, whats the bet she ends up a rent a quote person on BBC news 24
Fuck off! That’s my pension.
On the plus side, at least I can see her Tweets. Not much of a plus, though, to be frank…
I wonder if the departure was stage right, or …?
Anyway, the further reduction in ABC readership from not many to almost none should near ensure blanket representation of what the nation is really thinking and feeling from Today to Newsnight daily.
Will the New Statesman allow her to swan off to New York all the time and “contribute” from there, whilst she’s being “rescued” by Ryan Gosling from being run down crossing the road because she’s too pissed to notice which way, “orthodox” or “American,” the traffic comes at her from?
Not left wing enough for the Indy.
My first mission is to change the name – sexist bastards.
The New Statesperson is the progressive way forward.
Now, now, Laura.
Don’t you know New Statesperson is sexist as well.
It’s New Statesperchild!
Rat rejoins sinking ship, as the old saying goes.
And they don’t sink much faster than the Staggers!
No one buys the crap.
She’s still bashing it out:
“I’m especially worried by the tendency I see amongst some of my peers to play with a sort of cutesy opt-in faux-fifties retro-domesticity, when the battles of Friedanite feminism are far from won”
http://feministing.com/2012/10/06/the-feministing-five-laurie-penny/
One of the things I’ve learned from my transsexual friends is how powerful and frightening the fear of being misgendered can be – it feels like a form of identity destruction, like a tiny part of us is being killed.
Great use of the word ‘eponymously’ there, Laurie…
So the Penny’s dropped at the Indy, she’s a cr*p writer … well, better late than never …
£23,000 !!! Surely not as much as that.