There’s a scene from “The Aviator” where Leonardo DeCaprio playing billionaire Howard Hughes has let everything get the better of him and...

In today’s Talking Points column in the racing page of the SCMP, racing writer Sam Agars writes, “There is the thinking that Hongkongers...

What has been noticeably “missing in action” these days in Hong Kong, where the government has been busy with their various and confusing...

He was frightening, dangerously different and brilliant all at the same time. It’s why he was The Godfather Of Soul and Soul Brother...

Having been a journalist and knowing that sub-editors write the headlines, it still didn’t help my mood to see the words “NO LOCKDOWN...

Your venom is pretty and poisonous I can taste it on your lips How did you ever get past me? How exactly did you give me the slip? How...

It’s always been important, but when social media started to knock and intrude into lives which morphed into fake news and insta...

Nothing against the Baker’s dozen called Mirror, but how exactly this singing and dancing boyband is going to work as “anti-pandemic...

Anyone anywhere in the world who knows anything about marketing and advertising would know that the “easiest” and most obvious “strategy”...

I remember watching television with my then-wife Trina on the day of The Handover. This was on June 30, 1997 when the official transfer...

There might have been one of those rare- and also pretty empty- Sunday afternoon race meetings at Happy Valley in Hong Kong, but this was...

It’s been questioned and criticised and analysed for around three years. Now, during these Groundhog days of social distancing and...

The world is desperately in need of whatever you might want to call it- a reboot, a makeover, a Renaissance period, newness, chutney, a...

While the casinos in Macau crash and burn with their share prices worth billions going up in flames, thoughts turn to Robert Ho, number...

Adulthood can often be a tough place to live. It’s where you find yourself confronting many truths about yourself and perhaps for the...

Spent something like two weeks on a Lloyd Trestino liner called Asia, below, with my parents and playing shuffleboard with a couple of...

If things were already starting to change, Sir leaving us has changed everything going on about and around me. It’s put many things into...

It was 1983 and during the casting session for a new and pretty ambitious McDonald’s commercial titled “Steppin’ Out”. Michael Jackson...

It certainly looks like 2022 is going to be another strange year for the world when, like that Jimmy Cliff song, we seem destined to be...

You stayed with her cos she smelled so good And you loved her every touch Music played every time she talked in And through her smile you...