Thousands of Chinese seamen forcibly repatriated after WWII deserve justice

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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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BBC gladiatorial combat and poverty porn in Britain’s Hardest Grafter

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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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General election 2015: “It pumps me up!!!” not a lot

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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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Britain’s “liberal” media and UK Chinese: from London Chinatown to the general election

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The Guardian has always been sloppy about China matters, but its publishing stable now appears to have given up any pretence of writing about UK Chinese issues informatively. “It was a genuine community built by the emigrants from Hong Kong who, having been bombed out of Limehouse in the East End in the 1940s, made

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