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Listening to #TheSingaporeGrip audiobook: in this bit the Eurasian character comforts a son over his father’s death by putting his hand over her breast so he can have a gripe, and the female human cannonball can’t get into the cannon cos her boobs are too big
Should have been “grope” but you knew that and nothing is improved with this correction
I’m sorry I can’t continue this audiobook I can’t listen to anymore gratuitous description of women’s thighs #TheSingaporeGrip
Boneheaded take on #TheSingaporeGrip from the Guardian: this is like criticising apples for not being oranges. It's a book about the idiocy, decadence and venality of the British colonial establishment during the war. I would love to see a drama or documentary series that ... 
tells and centres the stories of the Asians who suffered horribly in Singapore during the Japanese occupation: the story of Elizabeth Choy (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth…) would be a good place to start. And a series that does that is long overdue.
But it's missing the point of #TheSingaporeGrip to attack it for being very white: that's the point of it. It was written in the 70s and honestly, read it. I'm not sure this dramatisation really does it justice, tbh: the book is well worth your time.
Right, I've been looking forward to #TheSingaporeGrip. Please don't be shit ...
Thought I recognised the building that's the location for the Blackett house - it's in Kuala Lumpur and used to be a hotel. I've had lunch there
Not sure about David Morrissey as Walter Blackett: he's a bit flat in the role. Still, it's such an excellent book and I like the rest of the casting
Thank you @heatherchen_ for asking me for my views about @ITV's #TheSingaporeGrip and the foregrounding of white experiences during a very painful point of #Singapore's history. vice.com/en_asia/articl…
I'd like to acknowledge that Singaporeans in #Singapore aren't very much affected by #TheSingaporeGrip since it's not being aired here. Those most immediately affected by the failures of representation are East Asians and Southeast Asians in the UK, as highlighted by @BeatsOrg.
In defending #TheSingaporeGrip, Christopher Hampton pointed out that it's based on the satirical novel by JG Farrell, which he describes as "perhaps the most celebrated attack on colonialism by a British novelist in the 20th Century". bbc.com/news/entertain…
