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No Cold War kindly invited me to speak at their online event on 6th October but sound problems rendered my contribution pretty unlistenabl...

This council estate-raised "chinky bird" is making a heartfelt plea for all the magnificent Chinese restaurateurs and takeaway c...

I'm performing this afternoon at the China In Britain event at Westminster University, 4.45pm. It's a talk with performance extract...

Brilliant news that the enlightened producers of Elementary, the new American Sherlock Holmes television series on CBS, have had the imagina...

Last night I finally finished off the first draft of Anna May Wong Must Die!. I've been thinking about this even before 2008, when I mad...

BWA-HA-HA!!! Puny white people, we will have your nuts in the palm of our six-fingered hands before you can say 'Fu Manchu'. Bow dow...

Cor! They were THIS big! So Jack Straw draws on the age-old slur regarding men of colour and white women, with the accusation that "so...

The Guardian plugs their "Morrissey sparks racism row calling Chinese 'subspecies'" Weekend magazine article on their f...

Well, call me Kafka. My contribution to today's Feedback programme on BBC R4 ended up as a cutting-room floor job in favour of a lett...

Last night Anna May Wong met Paul Robeson in Britain for the first time since the Thirties. Their stage personae, that is. I first hea...

To the charming visitor to this blog who is demanding that we Chinese should refrain from discussing aspects of our own history (comment her...

To the charming visitor to this blog who is demanding that we Chinese should refrain from discussing aspects of our own history (comment ...

A small but telling tale from Sarah Sands' vomit-inducing obsequy ' David Cameron: Born and bred to rule ' in the Evening Standa...

A small but telling tale from Sarah Sands' vomit-inducing obsequy ' David Cameron: Born and bred to rule ' in the Evening Standa...

She was one of the great Hollywood beauties, but being black meant she could perform only as torch-singer or maid. Lena Horne died yesterday...

She was one of the great Hollywood beauties, but being black meant she could perform only as torch-singer or maid. Lena Horne died yesterday...

One of the things that’s always drawn me to Cornwall is the friendliness of the locals. On one childhood coastal walk into Hayle from St Iv...

One of the things that’s always drawn me to Cornwall is the friendliness of the locals. On one childhood coastal walk into Hayle from St Iv...

Well, I used to be a fan of The Independent , what with having Robert Fisk and being so brilliant on the Iraq war. But with an article yeste...

A comic writes ... As Britain goes the same way as the Roman Empire, things fall apart and the cultural superstructure collapses into the...