Ed Miliband ushers in Chinese New Year of the Rabbit

Anna and Labour’s Ian McCartney Ed Miliband ushering in the Chinese New Year of the Rabbit may not be an event a testosterony communications team might see yielding the best headlines, but I had a pleasant evening meeting him and other Labourites at the Portcullis House bash tonight (Thursday 9th February). About fifty UK Chinese […]

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Christina Aguilera’s fluff versus Jimi Hendrix’s fuzz: Super Bowl Star Spangled Banner

Poor old Christina Aguilera, booed for fluffing a line of Star Spangled Banner at the opening of Sunday’s Superbowl in Texas. The BBC reports on the offending line: The singer should have sung: “O’er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming?” but repeated an earlier line with a slight variation. … Instead of the

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Julian Assange under attack for grooming crimes

What madness is this? Three new books launch savage attacks on Julian Assange, one of them excoriating him for smelling as if he hadn’t washed for days. May I just say, ‘So frikkin’ what?’ Assange’s one-time collaborator The New York Times publishes its ebook Open Secrets: WikiLeaks, War and American Diplomacy tomorrow. The NYT executive

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Militarised Hamlet at the National Theatre: review

Anna Chen – 27 January 2011 A fighter plane roars overhead. Lights come up on a bleak black-and-white Elsinore Castle. Soldiers in camouflage strike the familiar high-shouldered automatic rifle-toting power-pose so beloved of army recruitment ads, sorry, TV & movies. Who needs a bare bodkin when a Bullpup SA80 can do the job? Two youths

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