So there I am in a nice frock and scrubbed up a treat, and the actual event only takes three minutes. A scenario familiar to many of us laydees. Monday’s appearance on the Sky News skynews.com programme, where I was expected to inject wit and knowledge into a round-up of breaking news, was fun but […]
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Boris Johnson, Norman Tebbit and Toby Young, among other priority-warped pundits, may be screeching about BP dividends and imagined anti-British sentiment in the US, but there are more pressing concerns. On May 14th I blogged about the possibility that the BP Deepwater Horizon oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico may be unstoppable. Now spilling
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Jonathan Walker and Anna Chen A quick reminder that my BBC Radio 4 programme on orientalism in Western music is on for another five days. Chopsticks At Dawn13:30 Tuesday 8th June 2010BBC Radio 4Presented by Anna ChenWritten by Anna Chen with Dr Jonathan WalkerProduced by Chris Eldon-Lee and Culture Wise LISTEN NOW ON BBC IPLAYER
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Football — the continuation of war by other means. The trouble with football (collapsing a whole long list into a handful of bugbears) is that its mindset bears an uncanny resemblance to the belief in “my country/party right or wrong”. It appears designed to programme the collective brain out of thinking and nuance, making those
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Here’s a YouTube recording of May Kway Oh May Kway by Miss Huey Lee, the original Chinese song that became Frankie Laine’s hit, Rose, Rose, I Love You which I featured on Chopsticks At Dawn, my Radio 4 programme looking at orientalism in Western music. Several people have now contacted me to let me know
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“President Obama was offered the Nobel Peace Prize while he was waging two wars. And he accepted it. You can’t get more badass than that. Unless you give the prize money to the military.” LOFROR New Chinese immigrant to the US, Joe Wong, addresses the annual Radio & Television Correspondents’ Dinner, to an audience including
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