This, Gideon, is how to do it. Wake up. Take the red pill. Government spinners appear to be borrowing from Dr Who‘s The Silence. As soon as you look away, you forget them and what they’re doing. For everyone looking away from the main action in the current catastrophic reshaping of our society, I’d like […]
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I just appeared on BBC Radio 4’s Overwhelming China, presented by Philip Dodd and produced by Simon Hollis of Brook Lapping. What a wonderful intelligent take-down of the all-pervasive sinophobia for a change. It’s like a grown-up walked into a playground full of preening bullies. Programme contributors included Daniel York, Ben Chu, Dr Ann Witchard,
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LISTEN TO MADAM MIAOW’S CULTURE LOUNGE “THE SUPER RICH” ON RESONANCE FM You’d suspect all that talk about the BBC being left-biased is a crock designed to take our eyes off what the corporation is doing in service to the Tory mindset. Their new series, “Britain on the Fiddle”, sticks it to the poor again.
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Flying monkeys force Wizard of Oz to ban “Ding Dong, the Witch is Dead”. Munchkins furious and appeal to Glenda the White Witch to intercede. Judy Garland banned, the Lollipop Guild crushed. Rainbow privatised and handed over to the chaps in the Emerald City. It would take a heart of stone not to laugh at
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MADAM MAO’S GOLDEN OLDIESBBC Radio 4 11:30am, Tuesday 17th July 2012Presented and co-written by Anna ChenProduced by Mukti Jain Campion for Culture Wise In Madam Mao’s Golden Oldies, I revisit the Chinese Cultural Revolution Model Operas that I first heard as a child in the 1960s and 70s and discover how they are, somewhat surprisingly,
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Hopefully we’ve all seen the BBC Newsnight clip (above) and signed the petition demanding an apology for serious misrepresentation of Shanene Thorpe, portraying her as a benefit scrounger. What started off innocently enough as an investigation into “what it’s like being a working mum struggling to pay rent and housing costs” turned into an interrogation
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