April, 2011 – Anna Chen

Royal Wedding Blues Pt II: the ruling class are ‘avin’ a larf, innit?

Leave a Comment / Politics / Anna Chen / 30/04/2011

The gargoyles and grotesques who attended yesterday’s publicly-funded royal wedding give us a glimpse of a confident, decidedly non-democratic ruling class in the ascendent. With a government of their own clobbering the very people who turned up to celebrate, they must be very happy indeed. While I loathe the Blairs for their greed, worship of […]

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Defending Free Speech from the Zombie Flash Mob: royal wedding blues

3 Comments / Politics / Anna Chen / 29/04/2011

7PM. My mate Roz Kaveney, poet extraordinaire, has joined my sedate birthday celebrations and reports that the Queer Resistance Zombie Flash Mob was put under heavy manners on royal wedding day since Chris Knight and his guillotine mates (both of them) were arrested last night. Despite sitting quietly in Soho Square, Queer Resistance and the

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From Grassy Knoll to The Mall: Royal Wedding Expectations Shot

Leave a Comment / Politics / Anna Chen / 29/04/2011

Americans have the best take on this monarchy stuff. Thanks to Rigorous Intuition for the above inspiration. On the day that a Bahrain torturer attended the royal wedding while protesters in his homeland are being slaughtered, but Tony Blair and his power-worshipping wife did not (so it’s not all negative, then), bad news is buried

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Walpurgis Eve Royal Wedding: commoner to be sacrificed

Leave a Comment / Uncategorised / Anna Chen / 28/04/2011

Kate Middleton’s Friday night nuptuals I KNEW it! One look at the date of the royal wedding between William and Kate makes it as clear as a Swarovski crystal gunsight what the occult aristocracy shoring up the monarchy have in store for commoner Kate Middleton. As any fule kno, 29th April is Walpurgis Eve, going

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Farewell Poly Styrene: O Death, Up Yours

Leave a Comment / Music / Anna Chen / 26/04/2011

Today we bid a sad farewell to Poly Styrene who has died from cancer. One of the first women who swept to prominence on the punk wave of the 1970s, Poly made a massive impact. She challenged the insipid standards of female beauty of the time with unconventional looks that included a mouthful of metal,

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Thames Clipper video: Tower Bridge to Embankment, London

1 Comment / Uncategorised / Anna Chen / 17/04/2011

A lovely trip through the centre of London the other week by Thames Clipper, under the shadow of the absurdly huge Shard-enfreude which looks like the Tyrrell Corporation in Blade Runner. Includes Tower Bridge, the Tower of London, City Hall, The Shard, Globe Theatre, Millennium Bridge, Tate Modern, St Paul’s Cathedral, National Theatre, Royal Festival

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April 2011