Being implacably opposed to the death penalty, I hope that China will put to one side the dishonest, unprincipled, British government and media dissembling over Copenhagen and show mercy to Akmal Shaikh, the British man caught smuggling four kilograms of heroin. It now appears he was mentally ill and deserving of clemency. In the face […]
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And now for something a million billion miles from the travails of our tiny blue planet. Smaller than ants in the great scheme of things, it’s estimated it would take only ten thousand years for nature to obliterate every sign of human existence. We’ll be blown away like dust and no-one would know we were
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Anna Chen – 19 December 2009 Well, I used to be a fan of The Independent, what with having Robert Fisk and being so brilliant on the Iraq war. But with an article yesterday headlined, “China’s delaying tactics threaten climate deal” by Chris Green, and allowing racist epithets in their comments threads, has The Indy
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Anna Chen speaks on BBC World Service TV “World Have Your Say” on the FINAL DAY of the Copenhagen climate conference, Friday 18th December 2009. What has Copenhagen achieved?
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Today’s Times carries a powerful article by Sir Ken Macdonald, director of public prosecutions between 2003 and 2008, that says Blair was drunk on power when it came to dragging us into the Iraq war, engaging in “an alarming subterfuge with his partner George Bush” and going on to “mislead and cajole the British people
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Now for a bit of culture. Try out this beautiful advent calendar which gives you a clip of the Nutcracker ballet every day up until Christmas. Welcome to the Opus Arte Advent Calendar – an interactive calendar that celebrates the magic of The Nutcracker and celebrates Opus Arte’s 2009/2010 cinema season; a season that features
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