Malmesbury

China is like Dubai, in a number of ways, with more industry. If you are the kind of expat who can ignore the shit going on behind the scenes (and believes it can’t happen to you) then it is awesome … (View Post)

I also see we have the usual “we needed to arrest people so we could interview them under caution. To protect their rights.” (View Post)

Planning a protest in concert with the local authorities and police to meet established guidelines for organised protest in one thing Planning to obstruct or damage infrastructure is another. I speak… (View Post)

Actually, the Chinese Government didn’t understand (at that point) financing of the airport in Hong Kong. They thought that taking on a lot of debt to build it was bad. Then they saw the result - mas… (View Post)

“The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down… (View Post)