I'm surprised there only 780 Maxus cars as these seem to be everywhere. The noise they've added to them so they run fewer people over creeps me out
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I'm surprised there only 780 Maxus cars as these seem to be everywhere. The noise they've added to them so they run fewer people over creeps me out
I'm surprised there are dual nationals who didn't come across difficulty at the border before. I only got my British passport in my 30s and had a certificate of entitlement (in an old passport when it got v expensive to replace) and would still get questions/family members had issues
An article I read earlier in a different outlet apparently didn't bother to find her comments in the files, unlike the FT with details like this 2019 email: “Am totally tricked out by Uncle Jeffrey today! Jeffrey boots, handbag, and watch!”
I just had a conversation with a colleague about our respective pets, so we need a parrot and cat version of this: www.scmp.com/lifestyle/ch...
Mark Carney's good few weeks got even better
I wonder how many electric buses they could've bought with what they spent on belts. The BYDs in London are comfortable
When I take visitors on the bus, I tell them to hold on tight. Even London buses are more predictable
A bus I took yesterday had a sign on the front window to remind passengers to buckle up, yet no seat belts upstairs. Two smallish kids were thrown about when trying to get up and go down the stairs, which I’ve always found is the most dangerous part of bus travel in HK
I've redirected roughly 1% of these vistors to an Instagram-famous spot they've walked straight past.
Home Office tells Gaza academic his bid to bring family to UK not urgent
I hope the sprinklers are working
Calico cat with large pupils waiting in her carrier to see the vet with a blue blanket on top of the carrier.
As a child, my dad made us figure out the unit price of things in the supermarket to get the best deal. Today, I did this on cat treats I’ll use to trick my cat to take meds. Saved a whole HK$4
“A review of hundreds of tender documents, meeting minutes, emails, newsletters and videos spanning 9 years shows that regulators failed to act decisively on repeated warnings about potential corruption in the renovation project”
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/26/w...
118 work-related deaths in 2025 in Hong Kong, up 55% from a year earlier
• 54 collapsed at work (more than a third of them age 60+)
• 64 unrelated to workers collapsing: most ever
• 50 construction workers, 16 domestic workers
• 16 died in the Tai Po fire
news.rthk.hk/rthk/en/comp...
I know the complexity is the point but when the Home Office can barely deal with the system that's in place, it'll take everyone 20 years to get settled status anyway.
Here's the link to the consultation: ukhomeoffice.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
From @jamespomfret.bsky.social, the backstory behind Mr Wong in the photo that went viral
www.reuters.com/investigates...
Some things need to be assessed over time.
I’ve co-written a long story on the legendary female divorce lawyers of their generation, women who remade the law. The comments are… heated on.ft.com/3Mc7Lnp
Have shared this with a former solicitor of a similar vintage who likes to horrify people by retelling the misogynistic things judges etc used to say to her. They're tough because they had to be.
Hong Kong national security police have reportedly arrested an ex-district councillor and a volunteer handling out supplies for victims of the deadly Tai Po fire for sedition. In full: buff.ly/TMzmpp1
As to be expected from the multi-award winning infographics team at the SCMP - an excellent multimedia report on how the Hong Kong tower complex fire spread catastrophically multimedia.scmp.com/infographics...
There are two young girls (and their parents) on Caine Road collecting for Tai Po. They have cupcakes and a sign.
"I wanted to take everything, but I could take nothing... Instead, I stood quietly, looking around the wreckage, as if saying a final farewell to this home," Tai Po's Wang Fuk Court resident Lim ALim, who escaped the deadly blaze, wrote. In full: buff.ly/RSWd85s
“Metal is more fire-resistant than bamboo. But if the metal scaffold catches fire it will get hot. When it reaches a certain temperature, it becomes more prone to collapse. Regardless, if there's good management and rules are being followed, it is relatively safe to use either one."
A familiar feeling of being equally sad about what’s happening in HK and proud of HKers
"Flame-retardant nets – taking nets of the size seen in the fire as an example, 18×2 metres – costs about HK$75 to $90 per piece.
The same size but without the fireproof performance will cost $40 to $50 per piece, so it provides an incentive for some to take risks."
news.rthk.hk/rthk/en/comp...
Having visited Marlow a few times, more concrete would improve the place
Good morning, while everyone is waiting for the budget to be announced it’s a good time to say that immigration is a source of prosperity for the UK and painting Britain as a hostile state is sabotaging the country. Thanks!
A friend who's an anthropologist conducted her fieldwork in Guizhou. Her book, The Invention of Tradition in China, includes a section on how the Dong village she lived in conducts burials.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
It was so incredibly frustrating to watch the UK act so slowly in early 2020. This was amplified by the fact we’d been writing about the virus from Asia for a UK newspaper for weeks and nothing seemed to be being done.