Intrepid tweeting British East Asian (BEA) Bess Chan (AKA Katherine Chan) wrote to me attaching a letter she’d received from BBC about lack of BEA representation on the airwaves. She and her friends had been wondering why it was that American East Asians (Asian Americans) are seen as American, whereas BEAs (East Asian Brits) are […]
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Sadly, a classic case of the cutting room floor, but my mate Kirstin and I were in The Art of Noise Peter Gunn video starring Rik Mayall. We thought he was cute as well as funny. Kirstin flirted outrageously and asked him how much he was getting paid for being in it, and was it
Rik Mayall RIP: when I met Rik. Briefly. Read More »
Workers across America are winning a living wage. Halfway decent minimum wages work … certainly better than what we currently have. An important principle is grasped in America and is spreading. Let’s hope the same happens here. Ed Miliband should remember this when the Labour right are pressing him to emulate Ukip. Will Hutton writes
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Anna Chen gives her Chinese Diaspora in Britain talk and reads poetry at the International Festival of Business China Day launching ‘Opera for Chinatown’ in Liverpool. I’m really looking forward to doing this live event in Liverpool. “Writer, poet and broadcaster Anna Chen is coming to Liverpool on the 18th June to celebrate International Festival
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Watch Savile: The Power to Abuse – BBC1 Panorama 8.30pm, Monday 2nd June 2014. As we wait for the BBC’s own report into the Jimmy Savile scandal, shocking but unsurprising insights into how Jimmy Savile held onto power emerge in tonight’s Panorama investigation. Edwina Currie went along with Savile who was blackmailing Broadmoor nurses for
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A positive story among the horrors of the European turn to the right. The UK’s only parliamentary politician of Chinese origin — the Alliance Party’s Anna Lo – has defied racists in Northern Ireland and will stay on in her job. Lord knows we need people like her. It was bad enough that a Christian
Anna Lo stays in job and fights rising racism in Northern Ireland Read More »
