September 2014

Saturday interview at All That Is Solid with Anna Chen: “Don’t sneer at love in politics”

Saturday interview with Phil Burton Cartledge at All That Is Solid …: Anna Chen Extracts: highlights and lowlifes – Why did you start blogging? I started blogging as Madam Miaow in 2007 to stop me chucking heavy objects through the television screen. I needed not only to vent, but to order my thoughts when faced […]

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Texas rules up-the-skirt photos are legal in freedom of speech tussle that’s not as clear cut as you think.

I’ve been saying for a geological era that women in the west have a burqa imposed on us. It’s just that ours is invisible. The Texas Court of Appeal ruling legalising up-the-skirt shots — where a perv can thrust his camera up your skirt to take the image for sexual gratification — seems on the

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Chinese Labour Corps, the forgotten army: my column for the South China Morning Post

MEMBERS OF THE CHINESE LABOUR CORPS CARRYOUT RIVETING WORK AT THE TANK CORPS CENTRAL WORKSHOPS, IN FRANCE, DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR. Anna Chen’s South China Morning Post magazine City Scope column on the China Labour Corps memorial campaign 31st August 2014 This month, the world commemorated the centenary of the outbreak of the first

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Scotland: I want you to stay but I understand why you’ve had enough

I adore Scotland and its people. Not just the ones I’ve met at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, but during the weeks in Glasgow with the play M Butterfly at the Kings Theatre. The theatre crew looked after us and were so delightful, funny and hospitable, getting us drunk every night and refusing to let us

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Laniakea: galaxy supercluster home to the Milky Way

Putting everything into perspective. Laniakea — Hawaiian for “immeasurable heaven” — is the vast area of the universe that’s home to the Milky Way which is tiny in the greater scheme of things. Human beings are the most amazing creatures; this planet and everything alive or that’s ever been alive is a complete fluke in

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