Will Self bleats in last night’s Evening Standard about the closure of his favourite restaurant, China China, now disappeared from Gerrard Street in London’s Chinatown. Actually Will, it hasn’t closed, it’s just that, ever since your disgraceful lapse from your customary wit, compassion and good sense in the Evening Standard when you described the Chinese […]
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Hmm, I was going to video me performing the following poem and stick it up on YouTube but after Tuesday morning you won’t be able to check what I’m on about. So until I get around to it, I’m posting the poem here. This year’s Reith Lectures on BBC Radio 4 were given by Prof
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The other Tuesday I’m doing the washing up to Radio 4’s “Word of Mouth”, presented by Mike Rosen, when I nearly drop the antique Woolworth’s teamug I’m scraping clean. Today’s subject being schoolyard rhymes, an “expert” (white, male, natch) has just described in avuncular fashion how the kids have a jolly rhyme to accompany a
Ching, chang, WHAT? Read More »
The UK got its first Chinese politician this year (at MP level – it’s complicated) but, as luck would have it, she’s an MLA in Belfast, a city not most famed for its universal love. Anna Lo is the first ethnic politician to be elected to the Northern Ireland Assembly (Alliance Party) so you just
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