Penny Post much needed reforms in the current postal system. On 10 January 1840, the Uniform Penny Post was established throughout the UK, facilitating the safe, speedy and cheap conveyance of letters, and from 6 May could be prepaid with the first postage stamp, known as the Penny Black. Elihu Burritt proposed that a fixed rate of one penny be established for all mail throughout the entire British Empire as a means of facilitating international interaction and international unity. This was known as the Ocean Penny Post. On Christmas Day, 1898, the Imperial Penny Post extended the rate throughout the British Empire
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