Anna Chen gives her Chinese Diaspora in Britain talk and reads poetry at the International Festival of Business China Day launching ‘Opera for Chinatown’ in Liverpool. I’m really looking forward to doing this live event in Liverpool. “Writer, poet and broadcaster Anna Chen is coming to Liverpool on the 18th June to celebrate International Festival […]
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Watch Savile: The Power to Abuse – BBC1 Panorama 8.30pm, Monday 2nd June 2014. As we wait for the BBC’s own report into the Jimmy Savile scandal, shocking but unsurprising insights into how Jimmy Savile held onto power emerge in tonight’s Panorama investigation. Edwina Currie went along with Savile who was blackmailing Broadmoor nurses for
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A positive story among the horrors of the European turn to the right. The UK’s only parliamentary politician of Chinese origin — the Alliance Party’s Anna Lo – has defied racists in Northern Ireland and will stay on in her job. Lord knows we need people like her. It was bad enough that a Christian
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From Caleb Selah: “Recently this man accidentally became the TFYS’s neighbour. Lenny may have done a few dodgy things on the tellybox but everyman has to earn a crust. I like the Brummie a lot, he has put many smiles on my face, given work to friends. It has been suggested by a politician that
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Dear lord …! A working-class BAME woman of colour, I am evidently a child in need of white commentators protecting me with “trigger warnings” on book covers in case my delicate sensibilities are offended by sexist, homophobic, racist content. “Look, here I am, the good fairy, here to protect you while, incidentally, shutting you up.”
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Political poetry in London — Anna Chen at Campaign Against Climate Change Looking forward to performing poetry at the Campaign Against Climate Change cabaret 6-11pm, Sat 31 May at the old Amnesty HQ, 25 New Inn Yard, London EC2A 3EA. £10 & £7 https://www.facebook.com/campaigncc https://twitter.com/campaigncc http://www.campaigncc.org/events/2014/Cabaret Wednesday 21st May 4pm, another China Diaspora in Britain
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