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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How depraved is our ruling elite: No 2 Ah, yes. A big Number two. Then there’s the BBC okaying Jeremy Clarkson’s Pinochetesque outburst calling for strikers to be taken out and shot in front of their families. Under pressure from 21,000 complaints, the public corporation then told him to apologise, exercising more punitive authority over
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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 – 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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Even Radio 4 is at it. Hard on the heels of last week’s Sherlock oriental hate-fest, my beloved BBC Radio 4 has just broadcast someone called Miles Jupp presenting a thinly disguised bit of sinophobia celebrating one of the most notorious exercises in colonialist literature: Fu Manchu In Edinburgh. While it’s valid to explore the
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SPOILER ALERT Having missed the curtain-raiser of the Sherlock series last week, boo-hooing over the rave reviews, and tonight’s show — The Blind Banker — promising to be more Second Coming than second episode, Loved One and I settled in to watch, even forsaking our TV pals over at Channel 4 in the Big Brother
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