Tuesday 24 August 2021

“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…