A 20 per cent tax on hot food for poor people from the millionaire cabinet that just awarded their friends a five per cent cut in their taxes. Here’s a poem from the other year which features a pasty. Ode To A Detox On Returning From St Ives I’d hoped to grow old like Lauren […]
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In Channel 4’s China: Triumph and Turmoil, Ferguson takes us from 250 BC to the present day and the Chinese “huge potential for venality” with no mention of Jardine Matheson, Western banks and drug money liquidity, Empire, an accelerating number of wars on foreign soil or even the Opium Wars.
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Copper Comes A Cropper5th March 2012 A little bit of sympathy at the back, there.Puh-leaze. Let’s be ‘aving yew.At the Leveson inquiryThe cruellest moment is whenSir Paul Stephenson,The poor put-upon former chief billHobbles in on crutches and drops a pill,Cutting a pathetic sightUnder the assembled legal might.So small for a tall man,Bespectacled nerdPinched lips, he
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Anna Chen sings The Camellia and the Poppy, the opening song of The Steampunk Opium Wars. Filmed at the National Maritime Museum on Thursday 16th February 2012. With Charles Shaar Murray on guitar and Marc Jefferies on bass guitar. Camera: Jeff Willis The Steampunk Opium Wars pages here. Madam Miaow says … visit Anna Chen’s
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Wing Hong, Hugo and Lucy There’s no business like show business … I had a great time last night onstage with a group of talented Asian actors who’d been brought together at the New Diorama Theatre by director Wing Hong Li. As an exploration of power dynamics and the madness of crowds, The Other Shore,
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Viewed from my sick bed — how apt! — Tom Six’s The Human Centipede was a perfectly good horror tale of power. Two American women and a Japanese tourist find themselves in the clutches of a mad scientist, Teutonic Doctor Heiter (creepy Dieter Laser), in his modern house deep in a German forest, so it
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