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.”
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Or learn how to pimp your prose. Legendary author and journalist Charles Shaar Murray’s excellent Hothouse Project “Journalism as Art and Craft” writing classes return to north London in September for eight weeks. CSM has been dubbed “the rock writers’ rock writer” and has accumulated a wealth of knowledge over his four decade career which
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Anna Chen – 25 June 2013 My column for the South China Morning Post magazine 9th June 2013. City scope: Chinese bask in the summer limelight Anna Chen in London Following one of the longest winters on record here, I’ve emerged blinking into the light to find my hometown has become a hot spot for Chinese
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Oh, the heartbreak of trying to save a tiny life. We even named him … or her. That’s how hopeful we were that we could save Cartman the baby great tit. Rescued from the neighbour’s cat, Cartman looks robust enough but something’s wrong and (s)he can’t fly. To save it from cats and foxes, we
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Spent an enjoyable Sunday with my mate Deborah Evans-Stickland — she of the Flying Lizards and the definitive version of “Money” (1979, written by Berry Gordy in the 1960s) that you hear played every time there’s an item on … er … money. Given that we’re in the pits of a recession that’s fast turning
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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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