Informed witty commentary on China matters available here The Orwell Prize has just announced its 2012 longlist for blogging and I’m delighted to find that Madam Miaow has made the grade. My submitted entries here. Blog longlist here. Alex Massie Alex Massie Anna Chen Madam Miaow Says Bagehot Bagehot’s Notebook Ms Baroque Baroque in Hackney […]
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I quite fancy going to see the exhibition of Li Tianbing’s paitings being shown at the Stephen Friedman Gallery. I know nothing about Li’s art except for what I’ve been reading today, including an intriguing piece at Art Lyst. Li is quite young, born in 1974, the year I visited China with my parents. Still
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In the wake of today’s shameful vote for the Health and Social Care (NHS) Bill 2011 in the House of Lords, here is a brilliant comprehensive list of politicians where there may very well be a conflict of interest due to their financial involvement with the private health industry. Another must-read is Professor Allyson Pollock’s
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The two million dollar bra The looting at the top carries on apace. While we wait for the results of the next vote on the break-up of the NHS, here’s a delightful Rogues’ Gallery of Tory peers and their connections to private health companies. Essentially, they are privatising our public services, removing the wealth via
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If only I’d known this show may contain nuts. Mike Daisey’s monologue, The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs, a powerful exposé about labour abuses at the Apple factory in China, turns out to contain falsehoods. Daisey did what he claims no journalist had done: he went into the Foxconn factory under cover as
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Some publications refused to print this week’s worth of sublime Doonesbury on Rick Perry’s violation of Texan women’s rights and bodies. And so freedom of speech passes into memory along with Enlightenment values. Madam Miaow says … visit Anna Chen’s website here: Home Anna’s food blog here: http://annacheneats.blogspot.com/
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