Anna Chen launches her Substack account with this short biog about growing up in London. “Whatever current western propaganda demands that you believe, we are capable of altruism, fellow feeling, critical thinking and original thought. Of course we are. We’re human.”
The adventures of a Chinese Brit growing up in post-war liberal Britain Read More »
On the 16th BRICS summit, the UK is in danger of being left behind as the rising trade bloc overtakes the G7 and makes the US dollar an also-ran. Will the UK continue self-harming and stay on the sidelines to please the US?
BRICS now the biggest trade bloc on the planet Read More »
With mere weeks to go before Britain crashes deal-less out of the European Union, where are we now? Britain is leaving the EU just as Japan’s ground-breaking trade pact with the EU kicks in, making those combined forces the world’s largest trading body and one in which we still (for a nanosecond or two) have
Labour dogwhistles echo Trump protectionism and the spirit of MAGA on the day UK Chinese protest against intensifying Home Office fishing raids under the Tories’ hostile environment ever since Brexit. Corbyn throws the Chinese under a bus in a populist measure instead of tackling root causes.
It’s a whole month since the devastating fire at Grenfell Tower in London, yet the conflagration that killed 80 people seems ever present. A bonfire of regulations & a raft of corrupt, money-grabbing decisions led here. Will we ever see justice?
Tinderbox plc: a poem for Grenfell Tower Read More »
Anna Chen discusses Victorian and Edwardian-era Yellow Peril fears with Ian Hislop on Who Should We Let In? Thursday 22nd June, 9pm, BBC2 From the sublime to the ridiculous. There was I, having a high old time with Ian Hislop on Who Should We Let In?— the First Great Immigration Row, his grown-up investigation into
