Category Archives: Blog

Yes! Tonight’s the Spring Festival Gala! It will be livestreamed on YouTube if you don’t have access to CCTV. (The content is cringe-makingly dire, but the camera scans of the carefully selected, creepily enthusiastic audience is gripping.) Alternatively, you can … Continue reading →

A mysterious killer-plague virus spread from wombat-to-human is on the loose out of Wuhan. Hong Kong undergoes a sudden outbreak of face-masks. It will be interesting to see how much Chinese officialdom has learned since SARS. (When they tried to … Continue reading →

Just as you thought Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam couldn’t get any more out of touch, she goes off to Davos. Her arrival at the stale annual self-parody bore-fest coincides with a Moody’s kick in the teeth. It says… … Continue reading →

Will Luo Huining, Beijing’s new Party Secretary in Hong Kong, be nice or nasty? No sooner is the question asked than we get the answer. Writing in People’s Daily – the party organ that makes China Daily look edgy, zippy … Continue reading →

Yesterday’s gathering in Central was – by the standards of ‘approved anti-communist rallies’ these days – neither especially huge in size, nor threatening to civilization. But the Hong Kong Police managed to contrive 10 times more mayhem than would have … Continue reading →

Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam does not have a lot of credibility to lose, so blankly denying police brutality in the Legislative Council probably doesn’t make much difference to her as a political liability. Her claim that out-of-control cops … Continue reading →

So it seems the concessionary fares for the over-65s – soon to be over-60s – apply on ferry routes. Nice. Also, expensive. (And it seems the perk encourages laziness.) The government denies that its sudden announcement of tons of cash … Continue reading →

Checking bus schedules to plan ultra-long HK$2 trips when I hit 60…

Brand Hong Kong (taxpayer-funded exponent of etiquette to visiting barbarians) declares that ‘Hong Kong is On’ and launches its new hit video, explaining that… After a difficult time last year, #HongKong is fully switched-on to the opportunities ahead as a … Continue reading →

All right-thinking decent people in this part of the world are experiencing a glow of satisfaction following the results of Taiwan’s election on Saturday. It is hard to choose which commentary on Tsai Ing Wen’s victory gives greatest pleasure. I … Continue reading →