Anna with Steve Ingamells on the balcony of the flat he and Denise were renting. Here, for your pleasure, a selection of pix from my stay in St Ives during the Arts Festival. More to come. St Ives Festival 2011: Intro and “Kicking A Dinosaur” videoSt Ives Festival 2011: “Big Society: on a conversation in […]
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A little bit of politics, laydees an’ gennelmen with “Big Society: on a conversation at the Foundling Museum”. Recorded at Café Art during the St Ives Arts Festival September 2011. Written in June 2011. St Ives Festival 2011: Intro and Kicking A Dinosaur videoSt Ives Festival 2011 pix: Artists & Tate BalloonsSt Ives Festival 2011
Anna Chen’s searing poem about the cuts: Big Society Read More »
Madam Miaow is back from St Ives … and this time it’s personal. I had a delightful time in St Ives but it was an odd one. It got off to a disastrous start with me trashing my utterly reliable X-reg Ford Focus on the A30 on a foggy Bodmin Moor, aquaplaning into the back
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Takeaway Theatre Royal Stratford East The cast were fab, the energy level of the production was sky-high, but why was all that talent wasted on a heartless non-story about such an unsympathetic character? Takeaway, a musical touted by some as a long-awaited breakthrough for UK Chinese, is a delight in so many ways that it’s
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Anna Chen – 10 March 2011, Niall Ferguson Niall Ferguson “Killer Apps” episode, Civilisation Channel 4 Review by Anna Chen 10 March 2011 ‘Dominate, dominate, dominate.’ No, not an S&M dalek, but Niall Ferguson on the telly. I lost count of how many times this word, or variations thereof, came up in the first five
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When I started to write this poem, I had in mind the startling image of a sleek well-oiled Philip Gould stepping out of a sliver limousine to attend a £600-a-head Labour dinner at the Grosvenor Hotel in Park Lane which was being picketed by us, the Socialist Alliance in its heyday. If it is the
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