Writes
Universities, when I went to one, were, by their very name, bound up with giving young undergraduates a whole and rounding experience.
Indeed, as I recall them, you really should not be admitted to a university unless you are capable of several options which include talking nonsense about politics, philosophy and religion until dawn, falling hopelessly [...]
A friend of mine who is in the business shook his head at the start of the construction workers’ strike. Why are they bothering picketing a building site in the back of beyond which nobody cares about? That won’t scare the contractors. It was as though they had heard him somehow.
On Saturday afternoon I stepped [...]
It is not easy to understand the Anson Chan peculiarity. It is not a phenomenon because scientifically it’s not big enough but it is as persistent and sometimes as annoying as Pudong Airport flight announcements.
There have been two occurrences of it in recent weeks. The content was identical in each case but the delivery vehicle [...]
There is a chance that DAB chairman Ma Lik , who died on Wednesday, is going to be remembered, rather unevenly poor chap, for his very recent outburst denying the Tiananmen square”massacre”. Frankly, if I was in the last few weeks of my life, suffering the pains of colon cancer and its treatments, I might [...]
Grade One monuments: elsewhere, these words would be looked upon keenly as a permission for a valued structure to be kept as it is, on the spot. In Hong Kong, they are words in the game of clear, flatten and develop in which items are removed from their location and kept as they never were [...]
