Have you ever had one of those moments when suddenly you realise you’ve been following the wrong rule book? You think you’re playing one game, but then you see you’re caught up in something very different? And maybe something much darker than you’d imagined. You’ve been pouring your energy, intellect or emotions into one task, […]
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Stop me before I broadcast again! Like the song says, I’m just a girl who can’t say no. Hence my appearance (against my better judgement) on tonight’s BBC World Service programme, “World Have Your Say”. Tonight we were mostly discussing the Olympics, and host Ross Atkins asked if we thought our leaders should attend the
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Pic: Madam Miaow takes instructions from her evil interlocutor Who’d have thought I’d turn out to be the Mystic Meg of the China blogs when I wrote my China Panic piece for New Internationalist, warning of the imminent demonisation of this year’s Olympics host? Prescient or what?! Leaping in where angels fear to tread, I’m
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WARNING: SPOILERS TA RAAS So. This was it. The final episode of the second season of Torchwood, execrable spin-off of the hysterical Dr Who, reinvented and revitalised by Russell T Grant, the world’s most desperate Joss Whedon wannabe. The first two seasons of Dr Who, long before it jumped the shark by involving Catherine Tate,
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Just got back to find this powerful post at the Socialist Unity website on the subject of Tibet. It’s an admirable contribution to the debate in a worrying climate of knee-jerk attacks on China from the West. China has many faults, of which we’re all aware, and is not the socialist paradise many once hoped
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Anna Chen – 16 March 2008 NOTE: CONTAINS SPOILERS This is a bit late but, due to some surprisingly hostile reactions to the Coen Brothers’ latest feature film, No Country For Old Men, I’ve decided to expand my comments at Louis P’s. Bloggers have been vitriolic about the movie, accusing it of a range of
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