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.

Global economy running on fumes: let’s have a jolly nice war

Sterling has taken a post-Brexit pounding and may even fall below parity with the dollar. The US economy is at the top of a bull run and running on fumes. The Euro is sliding and the European Union may disintegrate. Deutsche Bank may fail (it’s much, MUCH bigger than Lehman Bros) and could be the […]

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Brexit: a depreciating currency and the mirage of a thriving economy

The Reluctant Capitalist: a depreciating currency and the mirage of a thriving FTSE (or: how we are so screwed). Keeping the Left up to speed. The pro-Brexit camp is lulling us into complacency over the results of the EU referendum where only 37 per cent of the electorate voted Leave, along with a summer bounce

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Tories under pressure to go for investment: Labour’s opportunity to drive the economic narrative

The Reluctant Capitalist: keeping the Left up to speed From Anna’s Facebook post Sunday 2nd October 2016: I’ll give this to Team Corbyn for free (as always). I’m delighted to see left arguments for infrastructure investment entering the debate at the Labour conference. What you might not know is that investors, AKA the capitalist class,

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Waspi busts the myth of State Pension Age “equalisation”: Waspi fact file

Trudy Baddams’ open letter to the Guardian on WASPI and their stolen pension years; “We Paid In, You Pay Out.” There are several aspects to the 50’s women’s pensions and I have broken them down below. 1. In the mid 1960’s – early 1970’s when the 50’s women began their journey into work and contributing

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