Spend the longest night of the year with me on BBC Radio 4 Extra when St Ives and Me is repeated on December 21st ST IVES AND ME on BBC Radio 4 Extra. I’ve just learnt from my lovely producers, Mukti Jain Campion and Chris Eldon Lee at Culture Wise, that my BBC R4 programme […]
Jeremy Corbyn’s Momentum group repackages betrayal as a nationwide campaign to ‘Take Back Control’ of Brexit and push it through despite only 37 per cent of the electorate voting Leave. Around 70 per cent of Labour voters chose Remain in the EU referendum but Remainers are unrepresented by the main parties. Instead of robustly challenging
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New Beijing-backed RCEP trade treaty offers hope to emerging markets in Asia Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has just had a grovelling meeting with President-Elect Donald Trump. My guess is that Abe offered Trump unconditional support in the South China Sea and Pacific. (There are moves to allow Japan to have an army and nuclear
With only one day to go before the US votes for its next president, one question remains: who is the least worst? Think about this. Trump, Putin and now, it appears, China, are contemplating a period summed up in the famous term of the early 20th Century economist Joseph Schumpeter as ‘creative destruction’. Tom Phillips
The world is changing, the sun sets on the British empire and all that is solid melts like a Mr Whippy ice-cream in the summer heat. Some people can’t stand it. In terms of cultural appropriation, Dan Snow’s claim in his programme, The Greatest Tomb On Earth: Secrets Of Ancient China, that the Terracotta Warriors
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Reports of Gal Gadot’s Wonder Woman appointment to the UN miraculously omit her Israeli Army background More proof that we’ve slipped into the Twilight Zone as the popular culture takes a hit. Today’s news about Wonder Woman at the United Nations yields a graphic example of how slippery the media is and why we need
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