May 2012

Working mother scapegoated on Newsnight while bankers rifle world finances

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Hopefully we’ve all seen the BBC Newsnight clip (above) and signed the petition demanding an apology for serious misrepresentation of Shanene Thorpe, portraying her as a benefit scrounger. What started off innocently enough as an investigation into “what it’s like being a working mum struggling to pay rent and housing costs” turned into an interrogation […]

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Greg Palast Vultures’ Picnic: stunning. Everyone should read this book

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Greg Palast’s Lady Baba-Land: The Islamic Republic of BP (BP in Azerbaijan and worldwide for Channel 4 Dispatches) If you ever suspected how filthy big business is at the top but never knew the details, investigative journalist Greg Palast‘s latest book, Vultures’ Picnic, will have your jaw hitting the floor every few pages. Greg gives

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Titus Andronicus at the Globe: review

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Titus AndronicusTang Shu-wing Theatre Studio, Hong KongGlobe 2 Globe World Shakespeare FestivalReview by Anna Chen4th May 2012 With the scarcity of east Asian faces in British culture, this past week has been a revelation for London’s theatre-goers. An appetite for Chinese performance yielded almost capacity audiences and praise for both the National Theatre of China’s

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