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Opinion: Filth: Food Safety Regulations Are Not Just ‘Red Tape’. They Exist to Protect People Over Profit

Eleanor Penny

In the case of food safety regulations, the spectre of red tape haunting Europe is not some socialist menace, writes Eleanor Penny. With food standards now on the Brexit chopping block, it’s time to worry about what else might be served up alongside dinner.

Opinion: Filth: Single-Use Plastics Tell a Story of Capitalist Greed and Planetary Catastrophe

Eleanor Penny

The debate over single-use plastics has shifted from corporate responsibility to individual responsibility. We must reverse this, writes Eleanor Penny. We need an urgent reckoning with polluter impunity and its political enablers - or else we face planetary catastrophe.

Opinion: Filth: Disease, Drugs or Looting – Brutal Policing is Always Framed As Protecting ‘the Public’ From Infection

Eleanor Penny

Black Lives Matter protests are being framed as a public health threat. In the long and racist history of policing, justifying state brutality with a claim to be protecting ‘the public’ from contagion - by disease, drugs, or an epidemic of looting - is nothing new, writes Eleanor Penny.

Opinion: Filth: Coronavirus Has Shown That Cleaners Are Essential, but Labelling Them ‘Low-Skilled’ Legitimises Exploitation

Eleanor Penny

A crisis always reveals. While pandemic society has effortlessly withstood the temporary absence of hedge fund managers, cleaners have been billeted to the frontlines, their work suddenly and mysteriously ‘essential’. In part four of her series, Filth, Eleanor Penny explores how labelling work 'low-skilled' rubber-stamps a vicious cycle of low pay, precarious contracts and hyper-exploitation.

Opinion: Filth: Space Junk Is Always Somebody Else’s Problem – But Eventually Someone Is Going to Have to Clean It Up

Eleanor Penny

As the Silicon Valley space race speeds up, we must solve the problem of space junk, writes Eleanor Penny. From Elon Musk's flashy satellites to the detritus of past Soviet missions, our stratosphere is clogging up. Unless organisations of accountability are formed, it could soon spell disaster.

Opinion: Filth: Racist Scaremongering Around Covid-19 Is Nothing New. We Have Always Blamed Racial Others for Disease

Eleanor Penny

Western governments have every reason to opportunistically stoke sinophobia, it helps them to distract us and to dodge blame. But what they are doing is nothing new. A glance over the history of colonialism and race-making reveals a longstanding tradition of scaremongering about racial others as founts and bearers of disease, writes Eleanor Penny, in part two of a series on 'filth'.

Opinion: Filth: Trans Bathroom Panics May Be New, but Public Toilets Have Always Been a Political Battleground

Eleanor Penny

Trans bathroom panics may seem trivial - a bad-faith media circus, a creepy fixation on where total strangers empty their body’s waste products - but public toilets have long been a key political battleground in an ongoing fight over whose bodies are worthy of dignity, writes Eleanor Penny, in the first of a new series on 'filth'.

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Opinion: Filth: Food Safety Regulations Are Not Just ‘Red Tape’. They Exist to Protect People Over Profit

Eleanor Penny

Opinion: Filth: Single-Use Plastics Tell a Story of Capitalist Greed and Planetary Catastrophe

Eleanor Penny

Opinion: Filth: Disease, Drugs or Looting – Brutal Policing is Always Framed As Protecting ‘the Public’ From Infection

Eleanor Penny

Opinion: Filth: Coronavirus Has Shown That Cleaners Are Essential, but Labelling Them ‘Low-Skilled’ Legitimises Exploitation

Eleanor Penny

Opinion: Filth: Space Junk Is Always Somebody Else’s Problem – But Eventually Someone Is Going to Have to Clean It Up

Eleanor Penny

Opinion: Filth: Racist Scaremongering Around Covid-19 Is Nothing New. We Have Always Blamed Racial Others for Disease

Eleanor Penny

Opinion: Filth: Trans Bathroom Panics May Be New, but Public Toilets Have Always Been a Political Battleground

Eleanor Penny

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Opinion: Filth: Food Safety Regulations Are Not Just ‘Red Tape’. They Exist to Protect People Over Profit

Eleanor Penny

Opinion: Filth: Single-Use Plastics Tell a Story of Capitalist Greed and Planetary Catastrophe

Eleanor Penny

Opinion: Filth: Disease, Drugs or Looting – Brutal Policing is Always Framed As Protecting ‘the Public’ From Infection

Eleanor Penny

Opinion: Filth: Coronavirus Has Shown That Cleaners Are Essential, but Labelling Them ‘Low-Skilled’ Legitimises Exploitation

Eleanor Penny

Opinion: Filth: Space Junk Is Always Somebody Else’s Problem – But Eventually Someone Is Going to Have to Clean It Up

Eleanor Penny

Opinion: Filth: Racist Scaremongering Around Covid-19 Is Nothing New. We Have Always Blamed Racial Others for Disease

Eleanor Penny

Opinion: Filth: Trans Bathroom Panics May Be New, but Public Toilets Have Always Been a Political Battleground

Eleanor Penny

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