A picture you won’t find in The Spirit of 45 by Ken Loach There have been black people in Britain at least from Roman times; some historians claim that north Africans were here 3,000 years ago. The first Chinese visitor we know of was Jesuit priest Shen Foutsong, who communicated in Latin when he worked […]
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Charles Shaar Murray just read me a brilliant demolition of “Hong Kong Garden” by Siouxie Sioux and the Banshees and “Every Picture Tells A Story” by Rod Stewart from journalist and former NME writer Johnny “Cigarettes” Sharp who has written a most excellent book, Crap Lyrics (pub Portico). Punk rock never had any truck with
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Anna Chen – 25 June 2013 My column for the South China Morning Post magazine 9th June 2013. City scope: Chinese bask in the summer limelight Anna Chen in London Following one of the longest winters on record here, I’ve emerged blinking into the light to find my hometown has become a hot spot for Chinese
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Your starter for ten (or a tenner): you are organising a political rally in Westminster where 4,000 activists are seeking ways to challenge the most vicious class war against the poorest in society by the rich and powerful that anyone can remember. You are surrounded by expensive eateries selling chi-chi food. (This is Westminster, after
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Egged on by Sir Jardine Matheson, Lord Palmerston declares war on China when Lin Zexu destroys the British opium stocks. Poem “After Kipling: Apology for the First Opium War” written and performed by John Crow. The Steampunk Opium Wars is written and narrated by Anna Chen. With Paul Anderson, Louise Whittle, Hugo Trebels, Neil Hornick,
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It’s good to see Chinese people challenging the culinary habits of the Yulin dog meat festival and rescuing animals destined for the pot. Not only brutal but a health hazard, most of the estimated 10,000 animals killed in appalling conditions are strays and abductees, so who knows what diseases they’re carrying? Apart from concern about
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