the view from fanling

Readers of my photographic abstraction series will know that one of my favourite motifs is oil or petrol on a wet road. What they won’t kno...

I can’t believe it. I’ve been back in my home town for more than five weeks, and I still haven’t been out on the bike. Too bloody cold! The...

I’ve followed every US presidential election since 1960, and I can make two observations that have applied to every contest since then. The ...

One of my favourite activities when I’m in Hong Kong is quite a mundane one: drinking tea. Of course, there is more to yam char (‘drink tea...