Politics – Anna Chen

Happy 60th Birthday China: Madam Miaow on the Jeremy Vine Show, BBC Radio 2

So there I am, sandwiched between Georges Galloway and Monbiot (sounds positively Sheridanesque, Richard Brinsley, not the other guy) sending birthday greetings to the People’s Republic of China on Radio 2’s Jeremy Vine Show. They wanted it kept short, around a minute, and in the form of a birthday card with achievements, hopes and fears, […]

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The Shock Doctrine and Enron: nightmare TV review

12 Comments / Politics, Television / Anna Chen / 02/09/2009

Enron chief execs, Ken Lay and Jeffrey Skilling Last night I watched The Shock Doctrine followed by Enron, The Smartest Guys in the Room on More 4 in a truly wrist-slitting binge of disaster telly from which I am only now recovering with a mug of Earl Grey. The main thrust of The Shock Doctrine,

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Early Politics: Political Meme

3 Comments / Politics / Anna Chen / 01/09/2009

The Political Meme currently doing the rounds requires the dredging up of memories of youthful political activity which I’m sure makes the security forces job easier when compiling their lists. I was tagged by Harpy Marx. I, in turn, shall ask Random Pottins, Political Custard, Renegade Eye, and Hagley Road To Ladywood to help the

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Tony Blair: King of the World

8 Comments / Politics / Anna Chen / 15/07/2009

Pic: “I want THIS much!” Now Neil and Glynis Kinnock join in the cheerleading for Tony Blair to be made President of Europe. What, only Europe, Tone? How corrupt do you have to be to continue rewarding the man who took Britain into an illegal war with Iraq which pillaged that country’s resources, murdered hundreds

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China Uighur uprising put down

3 Comments / Politics / Anna Chen / 08/07/2009

Having no special insight into Sunday’s unrest in Xinjiang Autonomous Region, I’m as dependent on media coverage as everyone else, but I’ll try untangling the emerging information. It appears that what started off as a lynching of two Uighurs in a Guangdong toy factory following false accusations of a gang-rape by a disgruntled worker, has

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Anna Lo, UK’s first Chinese politician under threat from Northern Ireland racists

3 Comments / Politics / Anna Chen / 30/06/2009

Having chased out 100 Romanians from Belfast, racist loyalists in Northern Ireland have set their sights on Anna Lo, the United Kingdom’s first Chinese-born politician elected to national Parliament, and the sole ethnic minority member of the Northern Ireland Assembly. According to a report in the Belfast Telegraph, police have warned her that she is

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