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When is a dress just a dress? American teenager’s Chinese prom dress and cultural appropriation

Anna Chen writes in the Guardian, An American woman wearing a Chinese dress is not cultural appropriation (Guardian headline and standfirst written by sub-eds) PROM pic.twitter.com/gsJ0LtsCmP — Keziah (@daumkeziah) April 22, 2018 When is a dress just a dress? Remember those photos of the little cocktail number that looked blue with black lace to some […]

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President Trump to personally handle UK trade deal despite his nightmare record in business: Theresa May rolls over

President Trump has told Theresa May that he will personally negotiate the trade deal with the UK. He has no commerce secretary yet. Many of us are wondering what could possibly go wrong? Estimates that the Trump chicken comes home to roost (in the Chinese year of the Fire Rooster, note) are set somewhere around

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Wonder Woman UN appointment less about gender than Israel, Syria and World War III

Reports of Gal Gadot’s Wonder Woman appointment to the UN miraculously omit her Israeli Army background More proof that we’ve slipped into the Twilight Zone as the popular culture takes a hit. Today’s news about Wonder Woman at the United Nations yields a graphic example of how slippery the media is and why we need

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Tories under pressure to go for investment: Labour’s opportunity to drive the economic narrative

The Reluctant Capitalist: keeping the Left up to speed From Anna’s Facebook post Sunday 2nd October 2016: I’ll give this to Team Corbyn for free (as always). I’m delighted to see left arguments for infrastructure investment entering the debate at the Labour conference. What you might not know is that investors, AKA the capitalist class,

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