No Cold War Online launch, 16th June 2021: Return of the Opium Wars Text of Anna Chen’s speech: Opium Wars 2 Tonight, I’m going to discuss the current build-up in hostility towards China in the context of the Opium Wars of the 19th century and the propaganda war leading us there once again. At the […]
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Part 1 of The Red Dagger, a fascinating history of the poor from Heathcote Williams. When the power elite clamped down on the masses, Wat Tyler led a challenge and was martyred for it. I’m not saying we’re heading back to feudal times, but … Narration and montage by Alan Cox. Madam Miaow says …
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A picture you won’t find in The Spirit of 45 by Ken Loach There have been black people in Britain at least from Roman times; some historians claim that north Africans were here 3,000 years ago. The first Chinese visitor we know of was Jesuit priest Shen Foutsong, who communicated in Latin when he worked
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David Lee-Jones as Richard III Britain’s first Chinese Richard III — David Lee-Jones — is currently on national tour from Scotland until 22nd August at the Penlee Park Open Air Theatre in Penzance. I was part of a rehearsed reading of The Other Shore last year at the New Diorama where David’s presence and gravitas
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National Maritime Museum18.30-22.00Thursday 16th February 2012 A satirical extravaganza about China, Britain, imperialism and drugs in the 19th century in verse & music. See narco-capitalists & Chinese lawmakers slug it out, take part in a poetry slam, and watch the weirdest tea ceremony ever. What do the humble cup of tea and the opium poppy
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The gargoyles and grotesques who attended yesterday’s publicly-funded royal wedding give us a glimpse of a confident, decidedly non-democratic ruling class in the ascendent. With a government of their own clobbering the very people who turned up to celebrate, they must be very happy indeed. While I loathe the Blairs for their greed, worship of
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