Oh, this really, REALLY hurts. Yesterday Robin Williams passed away; today, I find out that one of my all-time favourites, LAUREN BACALL, one of Hollywood’s great beauties, also died aged 89. Bronx-born Betty Perske was the star of To Have and Have Not at 19, going on the weave her screen magic in The Big […]
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To add to the current wave of global misery, Robin Williams was found dead this morning, suspected of committing suicide after well-known bouts of depression. Deepest sympathy to his family and friends. It must have been in the 1980s (maybe earlier) but the story I was told shortly after I moved into leafy West Hampstead
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Israel should end the siege, end the blockade and allow Gaza to grow. There’s only one people being pushed into the sea right now and it’s Gazans. A coastal sliver about 25 by seven miles — an area of 360 sq km into which 1.8 million people have been rammed, 60 per cent of whom
I so want to do this journey. Two Dutchmen, Maren Striker and Rogier Bikker, are driving the Silk Road route from Shanghai to Rotterdam using nothing but Chinese brand goods. One car, three months, eleven countries, 20,000 miles and a lot of sponsorship from July 26th to October 31st. The car, the phone, even their
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The biggest lawsuit ever, TTIP legislation and vulture capitalists. Anton Purisma, the man suing New York City for more money than there is in the world, has just taken out an action suing Ed Snowden and the entire population of China for the rest of the money that doesn’t exist in the entire known universe.
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The Chinese in Britain Forum 1st August 2014 Steve Lau writes: Ensuring We Remember the men of the Chinese Labour Corps Britain recruited 96,000 Chinese workers during the First World War who worked on everything from road building to recovering the dead. After the war the contribution of these men was simply forgotten, and none
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