Great video doing the rounds that sums up industry ineptitude over the BP Gulf of Mexico oil spill. OK, laughs over. Steel yourselves for this, for what it’s worth: “Scientists Warn Gulf Of Mexico Sea Floor Fractured Beyond Repair“ A dire report circulating in the Kremlin today that was prepared for Prime Minister Putin by […]
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So there I am in a nice frock and scrubbed up a treat, and the actual event only takes three minutes. A scenario familiar to many of us laydees. Monday’s appearance on the Sky News skynews.com programme, where I was expected to inject wit and knowledge into a round-up of breaking news, was fun but
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Boris Johnson, Norman Tebbit and Toby Young, among other priority-warped pundits, may be screeching about BP dividends and imagined anti-British sentiment in the US, but there are more pressing concerns. On May 14th I blogged about the possibility that the BP Deepwater Horizon oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico may be unstoppable. Now spilling
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Jonathan Walker and Anna Chen A quick reminder that my BBC Radio 4 programme on orientalism in Western music is on for another five days. Chopsticks At Dawn13:30 Tuesday 8th June 2010BBC Radio 4Presented by Anna ChenWritten by Anna Chen with Dr Jonathan WalkerProduced by Chris Eldon-Lee and Culture Wise LISTEN NOW ON BBC IPLAYER
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Football — the continuation of war by other means. The trouble with football (collapsing a whole long list into a handful of bugbears) is that its mindset bears an uncanny resemblance to the belief in “my country/party right or wrong”. It appears designed to programme the collective brain out of thinking and nuance, making those
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Here’s a YouTube recording of May Kway Oh May Kway by Miss Huey Lee, the original Chinese song that became Frankie Laine’s hit, Rose, Rose, I Love You which I featured on Chopsticks At Dawn, my Radio 4 programme looking at orientalism in Western music. Several people have now contacted me to let me know
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