Here’s my poem about the current welcome rush to the heart and head. I guess that makes me a Poet for Jeremy Corbyn too. LABOUR PAINS We snapped on a light and in the glare all was laid bare. Suddenly Yvette Cooper wasn’t so super, Kendall won’t mend anything at all ‘cause Liz fights tooth […]
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Anna Chen – 1 July 2010 My programme, Chopsticks At Dawn, about chinoiserie clichés in music, is on tomorrow BBC Radio 4 Extra & iPlayer. It’s on four times: 6:30; 13:30; 20:30 and again the next morning at 01:30, so no excuses. First broadcast 2010 on BBC Radio 4. Produced by Chris Eldon-Lee and Mukti
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… instead we get lies, damned lies and government spin. A simple placard tells us what the forces of ehvul and their media wing don’t want us to know. Madam Miaow says … visit Anna’s food blog here: http://annacheneats.blogspot.com/
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Peter Foo writes in his Change.org petition, addressed to Home Office Minister Theresa May, seeking justice for men who risked their lives for this country and Allied interests in World War Two: We are seeking an acknowledgement and apology from the Home Office for the 1946 Forced Repatriation of thousands of Chinese Seamen based in
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Beyond satire! The BBC has commissioned Britain’s Hardest Grafter, a “game” series described as “Benefits Street meets The Hunger Games” which pitches the poorest among us — the unemployed and the low-paid — against each other for a cash prize. They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? is an early model for this latest hate-fuelled poverty porn
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“IT PUMPS ME UP!!!” I KNEW David Cameron would try the Obama “anger translator” trick and screw it up. His speech today launching his small business manifesto (sic!) in London was made even more hideously embarrassing by not actually hiring in the translator. Perhaps it’s an English flaw, confusing mere rich-kid petulance with the fiery passion
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