Pic: Madam Miaow takes instructions from her evil interlocutor Who’d have thought I’d turn out to be the Mystic Meg of the China blogs when I wrote my China Panic piece for New Internationalist, warning of the imminent demonisation of this year’s Olympics host? Prescient or what?! Leaping in where angels fear to tread, I’m […]
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WARNING: SPOILERS TA RAAS So. This was it. The final episode of the second season of Torchwood, execrable spin-off of the hysterical Dr Who, reinvented and revitalised by Russell T Grant, the world’s most desperate Joss Whedon wannabe. The first two seasons of Dr Who, long before it jumped the shark by involving Catherine Tate,
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Just got back to find this powerful post at the Socialist Unity website on the subject of Tibet. It’s an admirable contribution to the debate in a worrying climate of knee-jerk attacks on China from the West. China has many faults, of which we’re all aware, and is not the socialist paradise many once hoped
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Anna Chen – 16 March 2008 NOTE: CONTAINS SPOILERS This is a bit late but, due to some surprisingly hostile reactions to the Coen Brothers’ latest feature film, No Country For Old Men, I’ve decided to expand my comments at Louis P’s. Bloggers have been vitriolic about the movie, accusing it of a range of
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If you’ve been wondering where I’ve been these past few weeks, I’m pleased to tell you that I’ve been picked up by two publications with the view to my contributing to the gaiety of their readers. The first is the New Internationalist which has taken me on as a columnist for their quarterly supplement, The
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I know one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter, but it’s enlightening to unpack the process in 55 Days at Peking by which noble aims are turned into evil acts, and heroes and villains reversed. This cultural manipulation is still with us today as the US shapes the narratives to get the public on board for its imperialist war on China.
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