Politics – Anna Chen

Royal Wedding Blues Pt II: the ruling class are ‘avin’ a larf, innit?

Leave a Comment / Politics / Anna Chen / 30/04/2011

The gargoyles and grotesques who attended yesterday’s publicly-funded royal wedding give us a glimpse of a confident, decidedly non-democratic ruling class in the ascendent. With a government of their own clobbering the very people who turned up to celebrate, they must be very happy indeed. While I loathe the Blairs for their greed, worship of […]

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Defending Free Speech from the Zombie Flash Mob: royal wedding blues

3 Comments / Politics / Anna Chen / 29/04/2011

7PM. My mate Roz Kaveney, poet extraordinaire, has joined my sedate birthday celebrations and reports that the Queer Resistance Zombie Flash Mob was put under heavy manners on royal wedding day since Chris Knight and his guillotine mates (both of them) were arrested last night. Despite sitting quietly in Soho Square, Queer Resistance and the

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From Grassy Knoll to The Mall: Royal Wedding Expectations Shot

Leave a Comment / Politics / Anna Chen / 29/04/2011

Americans have the best take on this monarchy stuff. Thanks to Rigorous Intuition for the above inspiration. On the day that a Bahrain torturer attended the royal wedding while protesters in his homeland are being slaughtered, but Tony Blair and his power-worshipping wife did not (so it’s not all negative, then), bad news is buried

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The Myth of the Liberal Media

3 Comments / Media, Politics / Anna Chen / 16/04/2011

How did Noam Chomsky become a hate figure among the liberal left? Few question the sneering tone used by people who define themselves as leftist whenever the professor’s name comes up. However, I just watched this clip and thought that, although it’s five years old, it’s nevertheless still accurate, still applicable, and needs saying often.

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Libya: the hypocrisy of liberal intervention

Leave a Comment / Politics, War / Anna Chen / 09/04/2011

Brilliant article by Johann Hari in the Independent yesterday on the real reasons behind the West’s compulsion to stage “humanitarian” intervention with things that go bang in countries whose people we helped keep down with more things that go bang. Take the present round of Middle Eastern revolutions rocking our oil-owning buddies including Libya, where

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Best speech of 26 March TUC demo: Dave Nellist

Leave a Comment / Politics / Anna Chen / 31/03/2011

Dave Nellist’s speech 26 March On the day’s violence by young protesters looking at long term unemployment while the rich get obscenely richer, he said: To the union leaders and the politicians, unless you seriously have a strategy to take on this government and its austerity programme, you are going to consign another generation in

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