No, there is no Welcome To Hong Kong letter from Chief Executive John Lee awaiting me, but there IS a Big Book Of Rules at the room in the mandatory quarantine hotel that will be my home away from home for the next week and which gives Bill’s Big Book a run for its money. Reading this book of rules and trying to absorb everything- “It’s advised not to drink too much alcohol”-gives you a migraine. You feel dazed and confused- not like a Led Zeppelin track, but still extremel

Looking back over the years, at nearly every Pop/Rock concert held in Hong Kong, especially at the Coliseum, over-zealous, and usually ageing security guards would make sure that no one stood up and maybe tried to dance to the music, or, quelle horreurs, tried to get close to the stage. Security guards would come over, shine their torches at “weekend offenders “, and so a night of fun would turn into something like a school dance or one of those afternoon tea dances that were

In a recent Talking Points column in the racing page of the SCMP, racing reporter Sam Agars wrote, “There is the thinking that Hongkongers need horse racing more than ever during periods of severe restrictions”. “Need?” “More than ever?” Horse racing? In a Hong Kong that’s suddenly gone and changed forever right in front of our eyes? This came after some flaccid horse racing news with Hong Kong Jockey Club executive supremo “Capitan” Bill Nader, below, under the headline, “C