Griffin screws pooch. Mystique blown. Martyrdom status denied. Looked like David Cameron played by Ricky Gervais. Cubed. Nick Griffin on forced changes to the BNP’s constitution: “It’s not about colour.” Bonnie Greer: “If I was your membership, I’d be scared.” Har! Be warned. One day they may find someone who’s good at this. Madam Miaow […]
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British fascist Oswald Mosley behind a microphone. Nick Griffin won’t look any prettier tonight. So the BBC breaks with a decades-old policy and allows British fascists onto the airwaves with an appearance by British National Party leader Nick Griffin on the prestigious Question Time tonight. Ever since World War II there has been an abhorrence
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With a slew of friends passing 60 and collecting their free bus passes, this was one thing I looked forward to in old age when my teeth are lost due to prohibitively expensive dental treatment and all my lovers are dust. I might have known it wouldn’t be around by the time I was old
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Anna Chen – 9 October 2009 The West divides Asian women into dangerous Dragon Ladies and passive Lotus Blossoms, the deep, collective psychological template for a feminised China, and codifies it across the culture, in this instance in opera. Giacomo Puccini creates the submissive, tragic, Cho Cho San in his 1904 opera of David Belasco’s
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So much for breeding and nobility. In a case that makes the Astors look like the Corleones, Anthony Marshall, the dastardly stepson of David Astor, has been found guilty of trying to steal millions from his mother, socialite Booke Astor, while she was gaga. The Astors, who founded The Observer, made their money from fur
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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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