When I started to write this poem, I had in mind the startling image of a sleek well-oiled Philip Gould stepping out of a sliver limousine to attend a £600-a-head Labour dinner at the Grosvenor Hotel in Park Lane which was being picketed by us, the Socialist Alliance in its heyday. If it is the […]
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I can’t be sure, but I think I heard cartoonist Martin Rowson refer to the late Labour MP Tom Driberg, in one of his anecdotes last night, as a ‘fellationist’. He might have said ‘fallacionist’ but as it’s Rowson doing the telling, I’m assuming it was the former. It takes a special kind of genius
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Oops! Forgot to mention I’m doing a ten-minute poetry slot for Apples and Snakes this evening at Jawdance, Rich Mix in Shoreditch. Say hi if you;re passing by. 7.30pm Wednesday 19th January 2011Rich Mix35-47 Bethnal Green Road, E1 6LALondon, United Kingdom Jawdance on Facebook Madam Miaow says … visit Anna Chen’s website here: Home Anna’s
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Well, I saw this coming a mile off. I knew that Ferdinand Mount was a novelist, Sunday Times columnist, Thatcher-era Tory grandee and former TLS editor when I heard him deliver his talk on ‘Orwell and the Oligarchs’ last night at the annual George Orwell Memorial Lecture hosted by Birkbeck. However, I had no idea
Anna Chen – Wednesday, 17 November 2010 Hungry GhostsWritten and directed by Tim Luscombe10 Nov – 11 Dec 2010Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond Director/playwright Tim Luscombe sets out his agenda in the programme for Hungry Ghosts, his new play about human rights in China. “We should remember that China’s current leadership is in power only because
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I finally saw the Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) exhibition at the Tate Modern yesterday and, yep, it had more breasts than a Bernard Matthews turkey farm. It’s an interesting look at a former impressionist who predates Matisse in his use of colour and the surface plane of the canvas. Murkier than the great colourist or even
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