Being implacably opposed to the death penalty, I hope that China will put to one side the dishonest, unprincipled, British government and media dissembling over Copenhagen and show mercy to Akmal Shaikh, the British man caught smuggling four kilograms of heroin. It now appears he was mentally ill and deserving of clemency. In the face […]
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Sergeant Howie Rest In Peace. The man with the legendary name said to resemble a fart in the bath will cut capers no more. Edward Woodward, star of The Wicker Man and The Equalizer, has died in Cornwall aged 79. Woodward did English neurosis better than most even though his best-known film role was the sexually
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Well, we won. I and my charming co-speaker Grace Wang did the biz at last night’s Confucius debate at Bloomsbury’s Ah King restaurant. Chaired by Peng Wenlan of the Meridian Society, it was an enjoyable evening for some sixty plus with good food and conversation only hampered by a dodgy microphone. Jenny and Laurence who
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Looks like I’m speaking at this on Wednesday. Here’s hoping the good dinner and drink don’t make me too sleepy to crackle like a spitfire. Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. Or is it dance like a hefferlump, sting like a tree? The Meridian Society Dinner-DebateDate: Wednesday, 7th October 2009Time: 7.30pmVenue: Ah King Restaurant,
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Who’d break a butterfly on a wheel? Damien Hirst gets out his blunderbuss and enters a new round of gnat-squishing with renewed hostilities against the 17 year-old graffiti artist, Cartrain. If you remember, last year the multi-millionaire “conceptual” artist threatened Cartrain with legal action over his use of an image of Hirst’s diamond head (For
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Daniel Dae Kim and David Yip Hah! Here’s one show you can’t accuse of yellowface. Last night’s Rodgers & Hammerstein 1951 musical The King & I, revived at the Royal Albert Hall, had so many Asian actors they must have emptied out every Chinatown in Britain. About thirteen kids and 20 or so women swamped
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