Laurie Penny

Laurie Penny, a feminist writer for The Guardian and New Statesman among others, has called the wave of protests nothing less than a Children’s Crusade: “There are no leaders here: the thousands of schoolchildren and young people who streamed into Whitehall three hours ago in protest at the government's attacks on further and higher education were working completely off script. A wordless cry went up somewhere in the crowd and they were off, moving as one, with no instructions, towards parliament.”

Laurie Penny is a journalist and feminist activist from London. She is a regular writer for New Statesman, and her political writing was shortlisted for the Orwell prize.