Matt Carr's Infernal Machine

Posted on  March 30, 2011 by  Matt

Laurie Penny has become the object of much self-righteous outrage for her  account of last Saturday”s march in London in the New Statesman. So far her article has generated 482 comments. These numbers are unusual for a Staggers piece, but the tone is not. Many comments dismiss Penny”s description of a police overreaction in Trafalgar Square as “fiction” though how they know this is not clear, since these commentators offer no evidence to refute her claims and do not appear to...