Penny Red Penny Red The Penny Red was a British postage stamp, issued in 1841. It succeeded the Penny Black and continued as the main type of postage stamp in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland until 1879, with only minor changes to the design during that time. The colour was changed from black to red because of difficulty in seeing a cancellation mark on the Penny Black; a black cancel was readily visible on a Penny Red. Initially, some of the same plates that were used to print the Penny Black were used to print the Penny Red and
Laurie Penny was leaving "The Independent" to rejoin the "New Statesman" (in November) as a columnist and contributing editor. Penny is the author of "" (Zero Books, 2011) and" Penny Red: Notes from a New Age of Dissent "(Pluto Press, 2011). In "Meat Market" she mounts an attack on liberal feminism, which she characterises as embracing the consumer choice offered by capitalism as the path to female emancipation. "Penny Red" was shortlisted for the inaugural Bread and Roses Award for Radical Publishing in 2012. "" was published in July 2014. Shortly afterwards, Penny stated she had been subjected to "a stream of