This bra costs £1.6 million in London’s Bond Street. Half a milion quid’s worth of handbags owned by one woman, bras costing £1.6 million, diamond encrusted EVERYTHING. The super-rich have never had it so good. I’m dizzy from all this high altitude spending while we have to juggle fixing pot-holes with keeping libraries open. The […]
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In the light of the current Lobstergate row currently engulfing Suzanne Moore, Julie Burchill, and now Julie Bindel, I am reposting the piece I wrote in 2010 about the film Priscilla Queen of the Desert. If there are trans-women who have critiqued the movie, I would be delighted to hear from you and post links
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It’s official: the United Kingdom is the most unequal country in the West according to a UN report. The report shows that the poorest 40 per cent of Britons share a lower proportion of the national wealth – 14.6 per cent – than in any other Western country. This is only marginally better than in
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Anna Chen – 16 December 2012 Royal Shakespeare excludes British East Asians from their own culture: maids, dogs and ghosts all right, though.by Anna Chen — (written 30 November 2012) South China Morning Post magazine When the hallowed Royal Shakespeare Company cast east Asian actors in a miserly three roles out of 17 in the
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My festive season column in NEW INTERNATIONALIST magazine December 2012. Bah, humbug! 2012 was the end of reason Roll up, roll up for the End Of The Enlightenment Show! You there, in the best seats right up front, watch in wonder as the world as you know it comes crashing down, the pillars of civilization
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