Hmm, I was going to video me performing the following poem and stick it up on YouTube but after Tuesday morning you won’t be able to check what I’m on about. So until I get around to it, I’m posting the poem here. This year’s Reith Lectures on BBC Radio 4 were given by Prof […]
Madam Miaow on the radio: Reith lectures, China and the Body Beautiful Read More »
First Emperor Exhibition, British Museum. Waiting for sumthin’ to drop … I was so looking forward to being Flavour Of The Month at home in Old Blighty for a moment or three, what with the excitement of the Beijing Olympics in August. But due to certain events at the roof of the world, any profile
Terracotta Worriers: the (very late) First Emperor Read More »
The government lurches from one tabloid-pleasing stunt to another, devil taking the hindmost. They’ve decided it is a good and productive idea to make employers responsible for law-enforcement by naming and shaming businesses who hire illegal immigrants. You’d think that with billions lost to illegal wars and tax evasion, whoops, I mean avoidance, that a
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Jean Donnachie, Kingsway flats, Glasgow Scotstoun In this Guardian G2 video (Friday 13th June 2008), a Glasgow community organises to protect friends and neighbours from forced deportation. Moving and uplifting. A rare example of a media report that doesn’t present the working class and immigrants as beasts but shows humanity at its best. Report by
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Since the demise of Top of the Pops I’ve found it hard to keep up with what’s new in the fabby world of mainstream Pop ‘n’ Rock. The only non-speech radio stations I listen to are BBC Radio 3 and XFM and anything else I stumble across when channel-surfing in the car. The last big
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