I love Twitter. You get the news as it breaks, putting the peeps on a time par with the press. Plus, we are that infinite number of monkeys that comes up with top jokes and a raft of lateral thinking that’s illuminating as well as entertaining. A few things I’ve learnt in the past few […]
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Been away. Such is the nature of deadlines staring you in the face that I didn’t get to blog my BBC Radio 4 programme, Found In Translation which went out on 9th July. A novel premise torpedoed by idiot editing which cut out all the jokes and reversed the point of the programme: namely that
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Big thanks to an eagle-eyed Splintered Sunrise for sending me Anatoly Karlin’s demolition of a slew of hates, hopes and wishful thinking about China. In his Top Ten Sinophobe Myths he refutes what much of the Western liberal press have been breathlessly chanting like a mantra since the sleeping dragon yawned, had a stretch and
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Yes, yes, I know you’ve all seen it, but as a superior example of car-crash politics and a lesson in how not to give an interview (there but by the grace of god, etc), Ed Miliband’s loopy loop deserves a place of (dis)honour at Madam Miaow. I’d previously seen Ed as a Nick Parks character
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Mahogany Men Sarkozy and Cameron I’ve been a bit lax in posting my New Internationalist columns at my blog. So here’s one I made earlier. Vanity, vanity: why does just about every geopolitical headline that pops into view of late scream vanity? It’s wall-to-wall The Big I Am without a hint of introspection or self-critique;
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