Ed Vaizey responds to British East Asian Artists open letter on cultural inclusion

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Ed Vaizey responds to British East Asian Artists open letter. The BEAA writes: Some of you may have seen yesterday an open letter from British East Asian Artists (BEAA) to the Minister For Culture, Ed Vaizey. The letter was in response to Mr. Vaizey’s recent roundtable discussions with leading black actors and industry heads about […]

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British East Asian Artists open letter to Ed Vaizey and broadcaster on racial exclusion in the culture

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An open letter to Ed Vaizey and heads of broadcasting from the British East Asian Artists group. We read with interest that the UK Minister for Culture, Communications and Creative Industries, The Right Honourable Mr. Ed Vaizey, has expressed concern about the number of black actors who are abandoning Britain for America because of lack

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Happy Chinese New Year of the Horse: and a poem about panda sex

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Last night I won the annual Farrago Poetry Zoo Award for Best Performance by a London Poet for 2013. Held at the RADA Café in Malet Street, the Farrago poetry events are supportive and inclusive, not to mention exciting, showcases for some very hot new talent. Thank you to everyone who voted for me. What

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SWP splinter in new sex storm: never mind social and economic relations, here comes mighty whitey with the horn

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I’m sure the first thing we all thought when we saw the photo of Dasha Zhukova Abramovich and the bondage chair was: ooh, hot BDSM. My own race play consists of me as Kato doing a kung fu leap on Loved One as Inspector Clouseau, and then yelling at him in some guttural language that

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The forced repatriation of Chinese seaman from post-war Liverpool: my column for the South China Morning Post

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Photo: Pak Hung Chan In 2007 I made a ten-part series for BBC Radio 4 called Chinese In Britain. Along with my wonderful producer Mukti Jain Campion at Culture Wise, we covered hitherto largely unknown issues and events such as the forced repatriation by the Atlee government of Chinese seamen who’d risked their lives keeping

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Prayer Before Birth by Louis Macneice: a guiding light in a mad world

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The world is going insane, the Tory narrative has set like concrete, the far left has lost its marbles along with its principles and judgement. Never mind the empty left rhetoric, here’s my favourite poem that’s been a guiding light since my teens. Prayer Before Birth I am not yet born; O hear me.Let not

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