The photographic evidence clearly shows not only that the gold medallist has been given the wrong medal but also that the stars on the flag are the wrong colour and in the wrong alignment Read More
Many years ago, I went to Hainan Island – so long ago that it was still part of Guangdong Province rather than a province in its own right, as it is today.One of the lasting memories o… Read More
15 years after bursting onto the screen with his fresh-faced charm in The Bourne Identity, David Webb, AKA Matt Damon, is back in a film called Jason Bourne - a movie with scant characterisa… Read More
While the citizens of Hong Kong may bemoan the dearth of choral music emanating from England's premier university on the banks of the Isis, compensation of a sort comes in the shape of the f… Read More
Photo accompanying article called "Read online, feel offline"Call me an old cynic but any time I read an article telling me that Hong Kong people are reading more… Read More
Ladies and gentlemen, after conducting an intensive worldwide search, we would like to present to you the next England manager...Sam F***ing Allardyce! Read More
View from Branscombe BayI don't know if it was coincidence or not but my return to the mother country coincided with the decision of Wales, Cornwall and most parts east to tell Latvia, Lithu… Read More
It may not have the glorious Henry VI chapel beside the Cam possessed of King's College, but the Trinity College Choir makes up for what it might lack in architecture (it does have England's… Read More
I am currently slumming it in Cornwall, prior to stop-offs in Ottery and Weston on the way to a week in the Great Wen.Normal service will be resumed when I return to Hong Kong in time to cel… Read More
Following up on the story of the new value-added buses that ferry you to the airport less frequently than their predecessors did, an alert reader has sent me a photo of an "enhancement" whic… Read More
You know what they say about buses? You wait an eternity for one and then two come along at the same time. Well, Hong Kong is developing its own variation on this theme quicker than you can… Read More
It seems that the problem of tired drivers of double-deck buses – which can carry up to 150 passengers – just won’t go away.A recent survey reports a staggering 45% of the… Read More
This is the slogan dreamed up by one Lonesome Rhodes for a senator called Worthington Fuller running for the presidency of the good ol' US of A in the 1957 Elia Kazan film A Face in the Crow… Read More
If you’re at a loose end on Monday 6 June and in the vicinity of St John’s Cathedral, you could do worse than go to the Li Hall (south-west of the Cathedral – or next to th… Read More
Hong Kong’s leading English-language newspaper, the South China Morning Post, has responded to public concern that it doesn’t know how to write, edit or spell by citing Lord of t… Read More
What should land with a giant thud on my desk shortly after lunch courtesy of Helen the Pantry Lady cum Wiper of Management Grade Telephones but the latest annual report of Transport Interna… Read More
I would have driven myself but I damaged my back swerving to avoid the police roadblockHot on the heels of the scandal involving its Comptroller, his fake degree and the Council member who i… Read More
Remember the days when you could enjoy a bus journey in peace and quiet, free from the inane screaming emanating from a silly 14-inch TV screen?Well, those days could be returning, at least… Read More
I think I just spotted another five of my children up in the balconyLittle as I am given to boasting, my prediction last September that Donald Trump would become the next Presi… Read More
It's time for action, not words after the latest in a long series of accidents caused by drivers falling asleep at the wheel and mounting the pavement. While it was only good fortune that me… Read More
I not only have a PhD in Pharmacy, but I am also a dab hand at divining what a Spaniard gets up to when he takes seven months off and then comes back and wins our championship Read More
On the day that Apple Daily wins the award for the least surprising news item by reporting that construction of the Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong Express Rail Link is beset by a whole raft of… Read More
I hereby declare this Discovery Bay golf buggy key party open He may be stand five foot nothing in his tartan socks, but Brian Stevenson has been a major player in the realm of highly l… Read More
On the day that yet another survey came to the conclusion that Hong Kong people are among the most miserable in the world, as fate would have it, I managed to try a restaurant which seemed d… Read More
In a move that had been predicted by no one, Hong Kong's Chief Executive has resigned with immediate effect, his deputy Carrie Lam taking over until fresh elections are held.In a speech that… Read More
Fancy a read? Want to know what England was like when Oscar Wilde was mincing about and strewing his green carnations everywhere? Then try reading these two books back to back: The Port… Read More
Two leading contestants for International Man of Mystery 2016 face off on Chinese television Hong Kong’s leading English-language bin liner, the South China Morning Post, today an… Read More
Every time he’s met Xi Jinping he’s told him to slip him a couple million US or he’ll publish another trashy book with invented dialogue between him and his first wife Read More
Between 1958 and 1992, a total of 30 Carry Onfilms were made on a shoestring by the team of Peter Rogers and Gerald Thomas out of Pinewood Studios near London. The films are typically around… Read More
I can still remember returning from an evening at the Comedy Club in Wan Chai nearly 15 years ago, switching on the TV and seeing what I thought at first was a re-run of a Hollywood disaster… Read More
Long known to be looking for ways to update its iconic ejector seat concept, Eon Productions – the folk behind the James Bond films – are said to have stepped up their interest i… Read More
In April 1979, a week after receiving the Best Director Oscar for The Deer Hunter, Michael Cimino started filming on his new project, Heaven’s Gate. After six days he was five days beh… Read More