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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Yes, yes, I know you’ve all seen it, but as a superior example of car-crash politics and a lesson in how not to give an interview (there but by the grace of god, etc), Ed Miliband’s loopy loop deserves a place of (dis)honour at Madam Miaow. I’d previously seen Ed as a Nick Parks character
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Mahogany Men Sarkozy and Cameron I’ve been a bit lax in posting my New Internationalist columns at my blog. So here’s one I made earlier. Vanity, vanity: why does just about every geopolitical headline that pops into view of late scream vanity? It’s wall-to-wall The Big I Am without a hint of introspection or self-critique;
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Here’s a little something about Michael Gove I posted last year describing an actual event that took place a few years back in Grays Inn Road. BTW, it’s true — teachers do need love, not Gove. Sad-sack Education Minister Michael Gove helped himself to make-up belonging to an exotic lovely and made strange demands minutes
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Just when you thought the monster was dead, he rises in the fourth reel. So the Blairites are out in force supporting Cameron’s National Health Service destruction (I can’t bring myself to call them “reforms”, an Orwellian deformation of the English language). First David Miliband gives us the speech-that-never-was, and suddenly they’re all emerging from
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US workers’ share of national income plummets to record low while the richest one per cent explodes. Wonder how Britain compares in the age of the Big Society. Madam Miaow says … visit Anna Chen’s website here: Home Anna’s food blog here: http://annacheneats.blogspot.com/
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