If only I’d known this show may contain nuts. Mike Daisey’s monologue, The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs, a powerful exposé about labour abuses at the Apple factory in China, turns out to contain falsehoods. Daisey did what he claims no journalist had done: he went into the Foxconn factory under cover as […]
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Some publications refused to print this week’s worth of sublime Doonesbury on Rick Perry’s violation of Texan women’s rights and bodies. And so freedom of speech passes into memory along with Enlightenment values. Madam Miaow says … visit Anna Chen’s website here: Home Anna’s food blog here: http://annacheneats.blogspot.com/
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In Channel 4’s China: Triumph and Turmoil, Ferguson takes us from 250 BC to the present day and the Chinese “huge potential for venality” with no mention of Jardine Matheson, Western banks and drug money liquidity, Empire, an accelerating number of wars on foreign soil or even the Opium Wars.
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Copper Comes A Cropper5th March 2012 A little bit of sympathy at the back, there.Puh-leaze. Let’s be ‘aving yew.At the Leveson inquiryThe cruellest moment is whenSir Paul Stephenson,The poor put-upon former chief billHobbles in on crutches and drops a pill,Cutting a pathetic sightUnder the assembled legal might.So small for a tall man,Bespectacled nerdPinched lips, he
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Brilliant news that the enlightened producers of Elementary, the new American Sherlock Holmes television series on CBS, have had the imagination to cast Lucy Liu as Dr Joan Watson. Some wags have commented that this is wrong because she should have been playing Holmes him/herself, but you can’t have everything. Amusingly, the team behind the
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Anna Chen sings The Camellia and the Poppy, the opening song of The Steampunk Opium Wars. Filmed at the National Maritime Museum on Thursday 16th February 2012. With Charles Shaar Murray on guitar and Marc Jefferies on bass guitar. Camera: Jeff Willis The Steampunk Opium Wars pages here. Madam Miaow says … visit Anna Chen’s
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