New Internationalist columnist Anna Chen asks whether we should care about a few smashed (but fully insured) plate-glass windows.
Articles by Anna Chen
Why are we dancing round reality?
If the Age of Enlightenment was about proving certainties, we’re entering the time of unravelment, when everything falls apart.
- November 1, 2010
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How (not) to survive the apocalypse
Anna Chen emerges from winter and wonders what happened to her backbone.
- March 2, 2010
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President Blair: The great escape
Anna Chen heaves a sigh of relief as Tony’s plans to conquer Europe are halted.
- November 3, 2009
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Suave criminal
Why are we all being criminalized? From media reports you’d think we were the most educationally-backward, pissed, pregnant, clap-ridden nation of crooks and delinquents in Europe.
- August 24, 2009
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Boycott meets girl
Shopping causes all sorts of moral dilemmas when goods are labelled ‘West Bank’, bemoans Anna Chen.
- June 3, 2009
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Route 42 to Dystopia
Anna Chen reckons we’re all being driven towards a dystopian future, and that the next stop could be terminal…
- December 9, 2008
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Non-Iron Lady
Anna Chen explores the battle of the non-iron lady vs the planet-hating peacock with an ode to crinkles for good measure.
- July 1, 2008
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China Panic
It’s official – according to new NI columnist Anna Chen– 2008 isn’t just the Year of the Rat and the Beijing Olympics. It’s also China Panic Year.
- March 11, 2008
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About Anna Chen
Anna Chen is a writer, actor, poet, singer, songwriter, comic, cineaste and martial artist.
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