“Appalling old wax works”

Today’s SCMP front page. Ugh…

That’s what Prince Charles called them in his diary note on the eve of handover June 30, 1997 — "appalling old wax works". And he’s right!

It’s depressing to see the front page of our local paper increasingly taken over by photos of our self-important local officials. So many appalling masked waxworks. The Press of authoritarians. 

While we are lectured by Beijing to “grasp opportunities offered by the mainland”.

~ sigh…