Author name: Anna Chen

UK writer and broadcaster Anna Chen challenges stale empire narratives with original insights and a dash of wit. A politically informed artist, poet and pioneering China commentator, she has led successful strategies to raise consciousness and run over dogma with her karma. Cultural breakthroughs include: UK’s First Chinese Punk, First To Take A Show To The Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Published Poet At 14, Orwell Prize Shortlisted, TED Speaker, BBC Writer And Presenter, Dissenting Journalist, Critical Thinker And Political Analyst. A lifetime of political analysis & cultural response in published articles, radio, videos, blog and poetry.

How’s it hanging in Brexitland? Politicians fiddle while Brits stare catastrophe in the face

With mere weeks to go before Britain crashes deal-less out of the European Union, where are we now? Britain is leaving the EU just as Japan’s ground-breaking trade pact with the EU kicks in, making those combined forces the world’s largest trading body and one in which we still (for a nanosecond or two) have […]

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The Windrush Generation: British citizens here before 1962 told “Prove it!” – by George Lee

The Tories are depriving British citizens of their rightful status established under law Today in my inbox I found this tweet from George Lee who tweets as RightIsMight, twitter handle @7_jamdown. #Windrush #WindrushGeneration @jeremycorbyn @sajidjavid @EmilyThornberry @HarrietHarman @MadamMiaow @UKLabour @Yvettecoop @CarolineLucas @carolinenokes Would YOU really like to know what caused the #WindrushScandal? Watch this video

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Council bans two films from Thurrock International Celebration of Film Festival

How sadly ironic that the Thurrock International Celebration of Film (TIC) festival — starting tomorrow at the Thamesside Theatre in Grays, Essex — has just seen two Asian films axed from the programme by the council in a risible exercise in censorship. The organisers, who have worked hard to provide solid, diverse cultural input for

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Chinese Labour Corps World War 1 Europe

Liverpool Commemorates the Chinese Labour Corps of the Allied World War I front 10th August

A hundred thousand Chinese volunteers worked alongside the Allied forces in the European theatre of World War 1, doing some of the dirtiest and most dangerous jobs on the battlefield. It was understood that an allied victory would mean China being given back its territories that had been taken by Germany.

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