Ten years of austerity since the credit crunch crisis and we’re even worse off while the rich doubled their wealth since 2008 It is ten years since the bankers’ crash went full blown and what have we done? Austerity, Macjobs, disabled payments cuts, a spiteful bedroom tax costing more to administer than is collected, tax […]
Credit Crunch Suicide: poem about the bankers’ crash by Anna Chen Read More »
It’s a whole month since the devastating fire at Grenfell Tower in London, yet the conflagration that killed 80 people seems ever present. A bonfire of regulations & a raft of corrupt, money-grabbing decisions led here. Will we ever see justice?
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Anna Chen – 24 June 2017, Chinese diaspora Anna Chen discusses Victorian and Edwardian-era Yellow Peril fears with Ian Hislop on Who Should We Let In? Thursday 22nd June, 9pm, BBC2 From the sublime to the ridiculous. There was I, having a high old time with Ian Hislop on Who Should We Let In?— the
Hours after the horrific murder of young people at an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester targeted by nihilistic sadists, comes news that another one of our screen icons is dead, aged 89. I met Roger Moore when I was in one of the Bond movies as a teenager. I was sharing the dressing room opposite
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Somi de Souza’s play Revolution in a Catsuit has bite, depth and substance. Ignored in Britain where minority artists are rendered invisible, it finally won support in Los Angeles where it is running at the Bootleg Theater until the end of April. Can’t wait for the video of the show. In the meantime, here are
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I’m afraid I’ve missed the 7th April launch date for the Chinese Labour Corps Memorial Campaign exhibition but it runs until 24th September 2017. Nearly 100,000 Chinese men served on the European battlefields of World War I doing the dirtiest and most dangerous jobs, clearing mines and dead bodies, and transporting explosives for the allied
