Laurie Penny

1 week ago | lauriepenny.substack.com | Laurie Penny

There’s been a late entry in the competition for most cretinous misunderstanding of international trade policy. For anyone who’s been distracted by the ongoing meltdown of the global order, this week Britain finally signed a deal with the EU. The deal is sane and sensible enough to be slighty disappointing all round, which not stopped the post-truth peanut gallery is freaking out.

2 weeks ago | thespectator.com | Laurie Penny

There’s been a late entry in the competition for most cretinous misunderstanding of international trade policy. For anyone who’s been distracted by the ongoing meltdown of the global order, this week Britain finally signed a deal with the EU. The deal is sane and sensible enough to be slighty disappointing all round, which has not stopped the post-truth peanut gallery from freaking out.

2 weeks ago | spectator.com.au | Laurie Penny

There’s been a late entry in the competition for most cretinous misunderstanding of international trade policy. For anyone who’s been distracted by the ongoing meltdown of the global order, this week Britain finally signed a deal with the EU. The deal is sane and sensible enough to be slighty disappointing all round, which has not stopped the post-truth peanut gallery from freaking out.

2 weeks ago | spectator.co.uk | Laurie Penny

There’s been a late entry in the competition for most cretinous misunderstanding of international trade policy. For anyone who’s been distracted by the ongoing meltdown of the global order, this week Britain finally signed a deal with the EU. The deal is sane and sensible enough to be slighty disappointing all round, which has not stopped the post-truth peanut gallery from freaking out.

4 weeks ago | observer.co.uk | Laurie Penny

An autism diagnosis helped Laurie Penny make sense of their experiences, but its real value was in helping them understand the rest of society Photograph by Suki DhandaThe first time Facebook tried to sell me an autism test, it seemed presumptuous. I’d wondered about it, of course. But I couldn’t be autistic. Someone would have spotted it. Like one of those doctors I was taken to as a baby to work out why I hated to be held.