Blog - Anna Chen, UK writer, broadcaster & polemicist

Jon Stewart on the Murdochs: David Cameron PMQs in Parliament today Live Blog

Leave a Comment / Politics / Anna Chen / 20/07/2011

First some laughs from Jon Stewart who skewers Fox News over their non-coverage of the Murdochs in front of the Parliamentary select committee yesterday. Prime Minister’s Questions:11:40: David Cameron, still jet-lagged from his truncated trip to Africa, is telling Parliament how marvelous the resigned rozzers were. The inquiry,which will start this month, consists of:Shami Chakrabarti, […]

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Rebekah and the Murdochs in the Thunderdome

Leave a Comment / Uncategorised / Anna Chen / 19/07/2011

I’ll be updating this live. Wendi Deng (Mrs Rupert Murdoch) sitting behind her man in fetching pink and femme-fatale Veronica Lake hairdo. James Murdoch gets off with a fail. Half-hearted protesters are ejected. James begins to speak. Rupert interrupts to say he’s ever so ‘umble, sounding like Barry Humphries playing Uriah Heep. Rupe doesn’t do

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If Rupert Murdoch had never been born: Fry & Laurie

Leave a Comment / Media, Politics / Anna Chen / 19/07/2011

I posted this over a year ago. Seems like an apt time to revive it. Less than an hour to go before the Thunderdome main event. Madam Miaow says … visit Anna Chen’s website here: Home Anna’s food blog here: http://annacheneats.blogspot.com/

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Hackgate: what I’ve learnt from Twitter

Leave a Comment / Uncategorised / Anna Chen / 19/07/2011

I love Twitter. You get the news as it breaks, putting the peeps on a time par with the press. Plus, we are that infinite number of monkeys that comes up with top jokes and a raft of lateral thinking that’s illuminating as well as entertaining. A few things I’ve learnt in the past few

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Rupert Murdoch: ain’t our democracy wonderful?

1 Comment / Politics / Anna Chen / 17/07/2011

Been away. Such is the nature of deadlines staring you in the face that I didn’t get to blog my BBC Radio 4 programme, Found In Translation which went out on 9th July. A novel premise torpedoed by idiot editing which cut out all the jokes and reversed the point of the programme: namely that

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Anatoly Karlin’s Top Ten Sinophobe Myths

1 Comment / Uncategorised / Anna Chen / 11/07/2011

Big thanks to an eagle-eyed Splintered Sunrise for sending me Anatoly Karlin’s demolition of a slew of hates, hopes and wishful thinking about China. In his Top Ten Sinophobe Myths he refutes what much of the Western liberal press have been breathlessly chanting like a mantra since the sleeping dragon yawned, had a stretch and

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