April 2014

British East Asian Artists and Diaspora music take the diversity debate into Parliament

Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) artists demand representation that reflects British Society  Last February, the British East Asian Artists wrote an open letter to broadcasters and culture minister Ed Vaizey about the pitiful almost non-existent representation of east Asians in the media despite being the third largest minority in Britain. Vaizey, who had been […]

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Laurie Penny excludes woman of colour from debate about representation of women of colour

Pic: Anna and Laurie when we were both shortlisted for the Orwell Prize. (Neither of us won.)  Eurasia? Or Erasure. The misuse of agenda: politics as entertainment and a schtick to beat up the upstarts. Was it something I said? In an argument about the exclusion of women of colour from the British left, politics,

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Charles Shaar Murray visits Chalkie Davies at Snap Gallery at his rock photography exhibition in London

The great rock photographer Chalkie Davies was reunited with his old NME mucker, the great music journalist Charles Shaar Murray, when we visited him at his exhibition at London’s Snap Gallery last week.  All the photographs evoke the age of the Clash, the Sex Pistols, David Bowie and Mick Ronson, Blondie, The Specials whose Jerry

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Restaging Revolutions: alternative theatre on Madam Miaow’s Culture Lounge tonight 5pm, Resonance 104.4FM

Tonight live at 5pm on Resonance 104.4FM, Madam Miaow’s Culture Lounge’s guests are Dr Susan Croft and Neil Hornick of The Phantom Captain theatre company. Presented by Anna Chen. Charles Shaar Murray rides shotgun. The alternative theatre movement in Britain was a post-war explosion of talent and ideas that took theatre to the masses in

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