Perhaps it’s unconscious and far from deliberate but there’s a set of prejudices in the Left that they just won’t confront. You can be a woman, non-white or working class but not all three at once or you get the INVISIBILITY BOMB exploded all over you. Feminist Camilla Power wrote to me earlier this month […]
The left’s invisibility bomb: how’s that liberation thing working out for you? Read More »
Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the left, here comes the penis on a skateboard. It’s class war. Millionaire Bullingdon bullies we never voted for swept into power by the machinations of their mini-me Liberal Democrat fags who had swiped the left-of-centre vote from a discredited Labour Party and then
People’s Assembly and Nechayev’s Catechism: be very afraid … Read More »
Here’s my South China Morning Post magazine column on February’s Opening the Door event at the Young Vic. (Published 17 March 2013) Full version below. Was it when I reached for not one but TWO bags of cheese ‘n onion crisps that my greed was exposed? First I’m demanding equal opportunities in the culture as
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Anna Chen – Saturday, 23 March 2013 The vast lobby of the Victoria and Albert Museum had been turned into the sort of joint where beautiful young men and women press cocktails and bubbly onto you as soon as you walk in. Mini canapés appeared transported on futuristic illuminated platters like something out of the
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Spent an enjoyable Sunday with my mate Deborah Evans-Stickland — she of the Flying Lizards and the definitive version of “Money” (1979, written by Berry Gordy in the 1960s) that you hear played every time there’s an item on … er … money. Given that we’re in the pits of a recession that’s fast turning
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I saw Wilko Johnson at the second of his two London farewell tour dates at Camden Koko’s on Sunday. Here’s my review for the Morning Star. Wilko Johnson Koko, London NW1Wednesday 13 March 2013 review by Anna ChenSqueezing through the throng at the second of Wilko Johnson’s farewell gigs in London, it’s hard not to imagine
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