Sadly, a classic case of the cutting room floor, but my mate Kirstin and I were in The Art of Noise Peter Gunn video starring Rik Mayall. We thought he was cute as well as funny. Kirstin flirted outrageously and asked him how much he was getting paid for being in it, and was it […]
Rik Mayall RIP: when I met Rik. Briefly. Read More »
Workers across America are winning a living wage. Halfway decent minimum wages work … certainly better than what we currently have. An important principle is grasped in America and is spreading. Let’s hope the same happens here. Ed Miliband should remember this when the Labour right are pressing him to emulate Ukip. Will Hutton writes
Higher wages won in Seattle supported by electorate: Ed Miliband should watch this Read More »
Anna Chen gives her Chinese Diaspora in Britain talk and reads poetry at the International Festival of Business China Day launching ‘Opera for Chinatown’ in Liverpool. I’m really looking forward to doing this live event in Liverpool. “Writer, poet and broadcaster Anna Chen is coming to Liverpool on the 18th June to celebrate International Festival
Chinese Diaspora talk and poetry in Liverpool 18th June Read More »
In the summer of 1989, protesters gathered in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square for a range of reasons. Some might have yearned for an idealised Western capitalist system, but a whole lot more were there to defend rights won under the revolution and now being reversed by Deng Xiaoping. What united the various strands was the expectation
Tiananmen Square 25 years on: princelings versus little emperors Read More »
Watch Savile: The Power to Abuse – BBC1 Panorama 8.30pm, Monday 2nd June 2014. As we wait for the BBC’s own report into the Jimmy Savile scandal, shocking but unsurprising insights into how Jimmy Savile held onto power emerge in tonight’s Panorama investigation. Edwina Currie went along with Savile who was blackmailing Broadmoor nurses for
Jimmy Savile strikebreaker at Broadmoor: Panorama tonight 8.30pm Read More »
