Authoritarianism
Year of the Rabbit
When I first arrived in Hong Kong, many years ago, I bought a microwave grill for the new flat from Park and Shop, a big supermarket chain. Could it be delivered? “Yes, when do you [more…]
China
Animals
Larry’s Diary, Week One Hundred and Sixty
Monday Good morning folks another week dawns and I am getting used to being left alone in the flat much of the time. At least I can pop down to the office if I get [more…]
America
China’s Machiavellian Virus
While the precise mechanisms resulting in the release of Covid 19 worldwide may never be publicly known, its deliberated impact on the developed economies of the West evoke all sorts of conspiratorial theories that generally [more…]
20th Century
Celebrating The World’s Longest Serving Monarch
The recent Jubilee bank holiday weekend provided an opportunity to pause for thought and consider the service rendered by the world’s oldest and longest-serving monarch and head of state. No, not her. She gets enough [more…]
20th Century
The Lady War Correspondent
Your author has enjoyed the extracts posted recently by GP from his uncle’s work, reflecting on older fashioned journalism. The extracts titled ‘The Lady Reporter’ and ‘The War Correspondent’ suggested this response. Imagine, if you [more…]
America
“Some things never change like weather patterns, famines and wars, whilst others change rapidly through technology and human greed”
Claudio Grass (CG): Taken together, the moves by Russia and China, especially on the monetary front, with their plans of a gold-backed digital currency, appear to pose a direct challenge to the status quo and [more…]
America
“Some things never change like weather patterns, famines and wars, whilst others change rapidly through technology and human greed”
As my friends and clients know very well, but also anyone who has read any of my writings before, I always held that understanding history and geopolitics is one of the most important elements of [more…]
Authoritarianism
Tears & Teargas
Those of you with longer and good memories may remember my article from January 2019 about protests in Hong Kong and titled ‘The whiff of teargas’. After recovering from the said tear gas, I wrote: [more…]
Animals
Larry’s Diary Week One Hundred And Twenty One
Monday Morning all, these Monday mornings seem to come round quicker and quicker, I guess that it is something to do with getting older. When I was a kitten, warm sunny summer days seemed to [more…]