Writes
As small contribution to the 10th Anniversary of the Handover, I reproduce here the text of a broadcast I made just before it, on RTHK, in February 1997.
“Back to the Nationality Supermarket”
Apart from a brief visit, last Spring, I have been away from Hong Kong for over a year. Nearly everybody I have first [...]
‘Without Roots.’
The West, Relativism, Chritianity, Islam
by Joseph  Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict XVI and Marcello Pera (Basic Book
Apparently the Dutch have an expression to describe self-loathing. “Down with Us!†it goes. That is what is ailing Europe’s perception of itself in the opinion of both Marcelo Pera, philosopher, academic and president of the Italian [...]
This blog was honoured last week to be recognized by Hemlock’s Diary, www.geocities.com/hkhemlock/  the most savvy and sardonic blog in town –and in full colour. It was a glancing acknowledgement, pointing out that my presence on the internet, akin to a water droplet in the Pacific, was a sign of how alarming it was becoming.
Which [...]
In a world which tries to steer the young away from addictive substances and does  backward somersaults not to offend on the grounds of religion or ‘ethnicity’ (try saying that if your Chinese or with a lisp), it really is time that the Virgin Mary was removed from bars and restaurants.
Classifying a sex fantasy survey in a student magazine as indecent and fining a man for posting a dirty hyperlink on a web discussion forum has whipped a rare and righteous rage amongst libertarians in Hong Kong. As an act of protest, one of them has made a sickly marriage of the two issues in [...]
I am more of a monument than Queen’s Pier. I am older and much more interestingly shaped. I don’t know how many times I have been docked at but I have never been fished off. I haven’t been graded since university and then it was a 2. I don’t want to be relocated either but [...]
Stephen Lam’s picture was attached to a news article on Sunday and all I wanted to do was to stuff his every orofice with those long chocolate eclairs which brim with fluffy cream. I mean no real harm to Stephen of course but the preppy, tactless self assurance with which he delivers his headmaster’s views [...]
I have come to a deduction over the Macau May Day riot that you probably won’t read anywhere else. It was a Wage of Sin.
STUART WOLFENDALE. SCHISM FOR ST JOHN’S REVIEW
In the fourth verse of his hymn “The Church’s One Foundation”, the clergyman Samuel Stone, whose life span was almost entirely contained in Queen Victoria’s reign, writes with a period confidence,
Though with a scornful wonder
Men see her sore oppressed,
By schisms rent asunder,
By heresies distressed:
Yet saints their watch are keeping,
Their [...]
There are occasions when you want to roll Confucian precepts neat and tight and hang them low on the wall by the lavatory bowl. Last weekend was one of them. Taoists had held an ‘international forum’ on the Daodejing in Queen Elizabeth Stadium. When it comes to marque rankings, Taoism is rather the Datsun of [...]
