Author name: Anna Chen

UK writer and broadcaster Anna Chen challenges stale empire narratives with original insights and a dash of wit. A politically informed artist, poet and pioneering China commentator, she has led successful strategies to raise consciousness and run over dogma with her karma. Cultural breakthroughs include: UK’s First Chinese Punk, First To Take A Show To The Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Published Poet At 14, Orwell Prize Shortlisted, TED Speaker, BBC Writer And Presenter, Dissenting Journalist, Critical Thinker And Political Analyst. A lifetime of political analysis & cultural response in published articles, radio, videos, blog and poetry.

Wonder Woman UN appointment less about gender than Israel, Syria and World War III

Reports of Gal Gadot’s Wonder Woman appointment to the UN miraculously omit her Israeli Army background More proof that we’ve slipped into the Twilight Zone as the popular culture takes a hit. Today’s news about Wonder Woman at the United Nations yields a graphic example of how slippery the media is and why we need […]

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Brexit: a depreciating currency and the mirage of a thriving economy

Anna Chen – 6 October 2016, Brexit and the economy   The Reluctant Capitalist: a depreciating currency and the mirage of a thriving FTSE (or: how we are so screwed). Keeping the Left up to speed. The pro-Brexit camp is lulling us into complacency over the results of the EU referendum where only 37 per

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Tories under pressure to go for investment: Labour’s opportunity to drive the economic narrative

The Reluctant Capitalist: keeping the Left up to speed From Anna’s Facebook post Sunday 2nd October 2016: I’ll give this to Team Corbyn for free (as always). I’m delighted to see left arguments for infrastructure investment entering the debate at the Labour conference. What you might not know is that investors, AKA the capitalist class,

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