A few years ago I wrote that we were trapped in a science fiction writer's coma dream. And here's proof.

On the day I discover the Nationwide Building Society (a Building Society !) Chairman is meeting Tice from Reform and The Nationwide are advertising on the toxic entertainment channel GB News, this : #poetry

A little bit of culture. Poem on the growing wealth gap following America's Great Crash of 2008. Written in 2011 under austerity, little has changed. BIG SOCIETY: on a conversation in the Foundling Museum youtu.be/jNRQgWglf1c?...

2B Or Not 2B - poetry by Anna Chen youtu.be/76TtjHmAcBQ?...

Will accidental leader Jeremy Corbyn fire up Your Party? Corbyn was always the accidental leader, transformed by the 2001 anti-Iraq War campaign into the left’s figurehead. Can he avoid his previous missteps? open.substack.com/pub/annachen...

@kayteesal.bsky.social Thanks for the follow. I reviewed your Anna May Wong book a while back. Was a good read. www.annachen.co.uk/2024/04/11/a...

Britain's 2010 trade deal with Beijing ushered in a “golden age” collaboration that was mutually beneficial, peacefully uniting the Eurasia landmass in Belt & Road trade. What went wrong? How America wrecked Britain & China's Golden Age #BRICS youtu.be/CvpyxU_GFSM

How America wrecked Britain and China's Golden Age Britain's trade deal in Beijing 2010, ushered in a “golden age” collaboration that was mutually profitable & peaceful, uniting the Eurasia landmass in Belt and Road trade. What went wrong? youtu.be/CvpyxU_GFSM?...

How the US wrecked Britain & China's Golden Age. Having almost destroyed China in the Opium Wars and colonialism, the declining West wants another bite. Lacking the ability to compete fairly with the rising superpower, America & Europe can only lash out. www.annachen.co.uk/2025/07/30/h...

How the US wrecked Britain & China’s “Golden Age” Britain's 2010 deal with Beijing, a mutually profitable & peaceful collaboration, helped unify the Eurasia landmass in Belt & Road trade. Subsequent stifling by a declining US has been tragic & avoidable. substack.com/@annachenwri...

It's coming up to the 31st anniversary of being the first Chinese Brit to take a show to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. 31 years of challenging establishment narratives in the public sphere and upsetting the Masters of the Universe. Was it something I said? www.annachen.co.uk/writing/suzy...

The clampdown continues apace at the end of the post-war liberal order. UK deep state (AKA Empire elite) goes all in. Wikipedia next.

"The purpose is not to do an activist action, the purpose is to get govts around the world to stand up & say, enough to the blockade of Gaza" Israel has seized another civilian ship in international water. Huwaida Arraf was on board and her husband speaks here.

The unfolding endgame: Gaza, rare earths and western decline Relentless violence by Israel against Palestinians continues to expose brutal imperialism. A rare earths squeeze by China may provide restraint on the US-led war machine. www.annachen.co.uk/2025/07/26/t...

High anxiety from Hollywood’s first Chinese screen legend to a China which excels. If you fear the thing you desire, and vice versa, America's obsessive pursuit of China reveals a twisted Heart of Darkness that won't stop even at WWIII. www.annachen.co.uk/2025/07/14/h...

Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill and the Curse of Erysichthon Burning the Earth to pay the rich A walking casebook of Greek tragedy character flaws, an inverse Robin Hood & King Midas: robbing the poor to pay the rich & everything he touches turns to sh*t. annachenwrites.substack.com/p/trumps-big...

Covid Timeline update now up. More gaps filled on the UK's deadly mishandling of the pandemic, and media coordination diverting the public onto scapegoating China. We had a pandemic roadmap. Geopolitical interests trashed it. #CovidInquiry #MattHancock annachen.co.uk/covid-pandem...

Whoever owns language rules the world: Marx vs postmodernism How politics twists language and shapes reality Fed up with the media mangling language to push corrupting narratives? Reality is whatever they say it is. annachenwrites.substack.com/p/whoever-ow...

Trump bombs Iran, next leg in America’s 21st century war on China. When Made In China 2025 launched in 2015, it was clear that a jealous US would try to stop it. All those beautiful, futuristic cities were red rags to an enraged hegemon that couldn’t compete. www.annachen.co.uk/2025/06/22/t...

21st century and these tropes are still lurking in the undergrowth. Anna May Wong Must Die! #Poetry www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vnH...

Emperor Trump in the Twilight gladiator Zone. Thumbs up or down for China? A frustrated Trump, seething from Taco insults and with his incompetence on show, steps up scapegoating China. Game on – let’s kick over China’s sandcastles in The Twilight Zone. www.annachen.co.uk/2025/06/01/e...

Pulitzer Prize-winning Chris Hedges' interview with China hawk and former Human Rights Watch chief Kenneth Roth leaves lurid claims unchallenged. Empire narrative fills the Left’s black hole of China substack.com/home/post/p-...

HAPPY 4TH MAY TO MY CHINESE FRIENDS FOR SUNDAY. 4th May 1919 was a major turning point in consciousness & the anti-imperialism movement that helped lay foundations for the May Fourth Movement & the Communist Party of China (CPC). Read the basics here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_Fou...

America has its own elites to blame. Where did they think this relentless demonisation of China was leading? In taking a stand, China also defends American citizens being pauperised by dim witted protectionism. Do they really want to work in factories for global south wages? x.com/MFA_China/st...

Dems need to face why voters were repulsed enough to allow Trump a second go. Biden, Israel and Gaza. open.substack.com/pub/hollerwe...

Which part of "Donny couldn't keep it in his pants" did everyone not understand? CoV is science shorthand for the coronavirus family. Check the Covid Timeline: annachenwrites.substack.com/p/covid-time...

Farewell to an extraordinary generation that drove an expanding economy before becoming surplus to corporate requirements. Politics in poetry for the Easter weekend: Boomers

Any idea if Trump is likely to invoke the Insurrection Act on the 20th and impose martial law? Feels so unreal.

Short story: The science fiction writer's coma dream David Bowie left us in January 2016, taking all the cosmic glue with him. He’d given us five years. That would take us to 2021. How much worse could it get? open.substack.com/pub/annachen...

Trump’s tariff on China already 145%, my video catches events at 124% What a huckster! Captain Ahab with a bad case of Moby Dick. youtu.be/CsnFHv-uLOk?...

This is why the US is intent on crushing 1.4 billion human beings in China. We're all collateral damage in the current trade war to destruction. Shakedown: Timeline of America's 21st century war on China - Part 1, 1997-2010 www.annachen.co.uk/china/shaked...

The Trump Heist: Decline and Fall of the American Empire. In Trump Mk II, the sequel, this time everybody gets whacked. MAGA wants a recession even if it means losing $trillions to bring back billion dollar factories. Bitcoin, shorts & fire-sale buyers the only winners. substack.com/home/post/p-...

The adventures of a Chinese Brit growing up in post-war liberal Britain Anna's Substack is now live ... very alive! www.annachen.co.uk/2025/03/31/t...

Is Elon's agenda at X and his xAI the undermining of 400 years of science & fact-based Enlightenment in order to own everything like it's a video game win? We know his morality from "we can coup who we like" to DOGE excesses to the state of his X platform. A boysworld Cyberdyne Systems vs humanity.

I’d assumed a government’s right to rule was inverse to how many of the electorate it snuffs. Armed with poverty, Covid & conscription, is Starmer going for a hat trick before he moves on to the real paying gig? Guess who he made a science minister? www.annachen.co.uk/2024/09/02/h...

Essential timeline of key points throughout the pandemic, incl. critical failures in the Trump and Johnson regimes in the years before, and the pre-Wuhan spread of Covid earlier in 2019 across the world. Don't let anyone rewrite history or dodge culpability. We have the receipts. #CureLongCovid

The adventures of a Chinese Brit growing up in post-war liberal Britain. As Chinese are disappeared from the public sphere, here's some politics, culture and original thought. annachenwrites.substack.com/p/the-advent...

It’s very American that the Secretary of Defence did a groupchat for an attack on a country the US isn’t at war with killing civilians including children and the collective pushback is just “And why did you add the journalist to this chat 😡😡😡”

UPDATE to the Covid Timeline after Boris Johnson's Yellow Peril blame-China piece in yesterday's Daily Mail. On the 5th anniversary of UK's 1st lockdown, enforceable 26th March 2020, here's the chronology. (See point 128.) www.annachen.co.uk/covid-pandem...

I did warn a fresh wave of Covid disinfo was headed our way, kicked off by Musk's "biowarfare" charge & Pentagon nuttery. Now a "U.S. Judge Finds China Liable for Covid Missteps, Imposes $24 Billion Penalty", says @nytimes Here's a Covid Timeline you need #covfefe www.annachen.co.uk/covid-pandem...

1) Labelling China as "the enemy" has been thrown around until it is taken as a given. It's no longer thought about, a lie told often enough to become the "truth". (Very Goebbels) How are you defining China? Evidence? Can you argue your claims? www.annachen.co.uk/china/shaked...

New leg of the UK Covid Inquiry opens today looking at Procurement: PPE deals & the Tories' ‘VIP lane’ for contracts putting profits before public health. Comprehensive Covid Timeline: 126 dates to remember before spin sets like concrete. EG airborne reclassified. www.annachen.co.uk/covid-pandem...

Wuhan lab does its job & detects new bat virus, HKU5-CoV-2, that can infect humans via ACE2 receptors like SARS-C0V-2. Just in time for the China-bashing deflection from bird flu in the US, here's the Covid-19 timeline. www.annachen.co.uk/covid-pandem...

Covid Timeline vs Trump spin: 110 dates to remember A short aide memoire and reference for the next four years to help you withstand the torrent of disinformation headed our way. www.annachen.co.uk/2025/02/19/c...

The iPad is the perfect size to hit you on the bridge of the nose when you doze off at night. Also enough weight to hurt. Hasn't drawn blood yet but we're getting there. And this, your honour, is why we need books. I rest my case if not my face.

Woke up thinking it was still 8 years ago when food was cheap, energy bills didn't scare me, everything was stable & no wars. Someone said we were all finally coming out of the US crash in sync, so don't eff it up. Then 8 years flashed past & I pulled up the duvet but it was in there with me ...

Dear @support.bsky.team. For some reason there is a nudity label on the account of @annachen.bsky.social. She’s a distinguished writer and could do without this. Can you please remove it?

@support.bsky.team Hi, I've submitted several appeals over months for you to remove the nudity label on my account but no response. Sorry to disappoint but there is no nudity here. Sexualising an Asian woman is one way to shut us up, I guess.

In the US bonfire of government agencies, Trump sets up a new religious Faith office. Church + State + Business = Gilead New Sermon on the Mount: Blessed are the geeks & grifters. Love thy neighbour's land. Covet thy neighbour's ass. Smite with spite. youtu.be/k4SkYvqOFUQ?...