In all the excitement of Danny Boyle’s stunning London Olympics opening ceremony, I hadn’t realised there might be a second phase of pleasure to be had for us armchair enthusiasts. Shrilling out from the widespread sigh of relief that Britain did not suck in front of a billion global viewers is a crescendo of protest […]
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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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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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My latest NEW INTERNATIONALIST magazine column December 2011 Big business turns TV toxic The ghost of Milton Friedman must be breaking out the bubbly in whatever Circle of Hell he now inhabits. Across the globe, his Satanic little helpers have been sucking the wealth out of the system like a parasitic alien virus to feed
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Anna Chen, anti-war press officer (Pic Sukey Parnell) Seumas Milne writes in today’s Guardian about the 9/11 attacks and the shameful silencing of voices who spoke out against the anti-Muslim hysteria. Anticipating the Bush administration’s cynical use of the tragedy as an excuse to settle business in Iraq and topple Saddam Hussein, many of us
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I posted this over a year ago. Seems like an apt time to revive it. Less than an hour to go before the Thunderdome main event. Madam Miaow says … visit Anna Chen’s website here: Home Anna’s food blog here: http://annacheneats.blogspot.com/
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