I’ve had the good fortune to be one of the few ethnics who have slipped through the cultural net and been able to make a few good programmes at the BBC, having a great face for the radio. But it’s shameful that there’s still so much unconscious racism as inadvertently exposed in a recent BBC […]
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Reggie Yates: Race Riots USA review BBC3 Tuesday 29 Sept 2015 There’s a lot of shark-jumping going on down Fleet Street. You may have observed the liberal press laying into the resurgence in progressive politics of late with a hysteria largely missing in action when it comes to the current assault on the poor, about
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It’s taken the right wing ages to muster 55 Jeremy Corbyn-bashing academics in the FT. (They include Alastair Milne, Professor of Economics at the University of Loughborough. Any relation to Seumas?) I hate to mock the afflicted but they really are flailing like punch-drunks and have tacked together an argument most of us can answer
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Madam Miaow of Cats for Corbyn translates: “Waddya think of this leadership contest?” “It don’t half exposes the contradictions in the bourgeois democracy.” “Ya reckon?” “Just a bit!” “They really don’t want the one with the beard to win, do they?” “The one with the eyelashes fancies his chances.” “I don’t. He’s deader than that
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Here’s my poem about the current welcome rush to the heart and head. I guess that makes me a Poet for Jeremy Corbyn too. LABOUR PAINS We snapped on a light and in the glare all was laid bare. Suddenly Yvette Cooper wasn’t so super, Kendall won’t mend anything at all ‘cause Liz fights tooth
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Anna Chen – 1 July 2010 My programme, Chopsticks At Dawn, about chinoiserie clichés in music, is on tomorrow BBC Radio 4 Extra & iPlayer. It’s on four times: 6:30; 13:30; 20:30 and again the next morning at 01:30, so no excuses. First broadcast 2010 on BBC Radio 4. Produced by Chris Eldon-Lee and Mukti
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