A positive story among the horrors of the European turn to the right. The UK’s only parliamentary politician of Chinese origin — the Alliance Party’s Anna Lo – has defied racists in Northern Ireland and will stay on in her job. Lord knows we need people like her. It was bad enough that a Christian […]
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Here’s my review of The Book of Mormon for the Morning Star Thursday 25th April 2013. The Book of Mormon may not represent the much-heralded death of satire but, with full-page ads taken out in the show programme by lampooned subjects The Lion King and the Mormon church itself, this effervescent musical inches us ever
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Madam Miaow says … visit Anna Chen’s website here: Home Anna’s food blog here: http://annacheneats.blogspot.com/
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Oh, yes. Nearly forgot to post my August column for New Internationalist magazine. So here it is … How lucky we are to be born in the enlightened West where we eschew cults of personality in favour of merit. Not for us those mindless automata praying at the altar of Stalin, Mao or Simon Cowell.
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“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
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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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