Here’s the first half of The Steampunk Opium Wars which we took down to the St Ives Arts Festival to play to a packed house at the Arts Theatre on Tuesday 18th September. We did it as a new concept — the unrehearsed reading — as six of our original company couldn’t get down to […]
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I’ve banged on about this before, but here’s another reminder of how much wealth there is sloshing about in Great Britain. MP Michael Meacher’s letter to the press has been doing the rounds and points out that the richest 1,000 people make up only 0.003% of the population and yet they have made £155bn extra
Aargh! Official: octopussy is safer than octocock. Tiny octopuddies implant themselves in a woman’s delicate mucous membrane when ejaculated during a sushi meal. Sex and food, my favourite combo. True and gruesome, fugu fish now has a rival in culinary Russian Roulette. And I thought liver flukes were all you had to worry about. Watch
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Hilarious, in a grim way, watching Tory cutters trying to argue with the Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman on BBC Newsnight. Ooh, morality, yet! A nation of shopkeeper but without the customers and, increasingly, without the shops. Madam Miaow says … visit Anna Chen’s website here: Home Anna’s food blog here: http://annacheneats.blogspot.com/
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Greg Palast’s Lady Baba-Land: The Islamic Republic of BP (BP in Azerbaijan and worldwide for Channel 4 Dispatches) If you ever suspected how filthy big business is at the top but never knew the details, investigative journalist Greg Palast‘s latest book, Vultures’ Picnic, will have your jaw hitting the floor every few pages. Greg gives
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Why can’t the Chinese authorities stop shooting themselves in the foot? If you are going to expel a journalist, it had better be for a more pertinent reason than reporting events accurately. It looks as if Al-Jazeera’s only English-language reporter Melissa Chan is guilty of the crime of uncovering scandals such as the perennial one
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