Samuel Chinque in 1951 — handsome dude! Chloe Chinque introduces our father’s archive, donated by his widow, Kin Yung (seated) David Yip and Anna Chen, a chip off the old block Anna, Chloe and Kin Yung Today saw the launch of my father’s archives at the London Metropolitan Archives as part of the Footprints of […]
Footprints of the Dragon: Dad’s archive launched Read More »
“My dad’s bigger than your dad and he’s gonna do you, sunshine!” “Yo mama so fugly, we gonna kill the lot of you.” “Yo Dalai so feudal he gotta suck Amurkin dick fo dollahs!”“Yo side so oppressive we gotta give special dispensation for violence. Om!” So what are we to make of the current tsunami
Manqué business: personality cults and the retreat into mysticism Read More »
Have you ever had one of those moments when suddenly you realise you’ve been following the wrong rule book? You think you’re playing one game, but then you see you’re caught up in something very different? And maybe something much darker than you’d imagined. You’ve been pouring your energy, intellect or emotions into one task,
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Just got back to find this powerful post at the Socialist Unity website on the subject of Tibet. It’s an admirable contribution to the debate in a worrying climate of knee-jerk attacks on China from the West. China has many faults, of which we’re all aware, and is not the socialist paradise many once hoped
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The wages of sin is money in the bank if you’re a former Prime Minister. I’m so incandescent I could light up north London after hearing the news that Blair has been given a $1 million per year job at JPMorgan, a US bank worth $1.5 trillion that has profited directly from the Iraq war.
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How nice for Tony Blair to be absolved of his sins of the past decade by joining the Catholic Club. If I were him, I too would be worrying about where my immortal soul was going to be spending the rest of eternity. There aren’t many of us who can claim such a spectacular starring
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