by Tom | Feb 13, 2014 | Hong Kong / China, View
I really want to see Shanghai Tower when it is finished, but using the escalator. Some of the shots they got are extraordinary: looking down on Jin Mao and WFC above the clouds is sublime. The video is so gut-wrenching it made my feet sweat – something about the...
by Tom | Feb 2, 2014 | Reading
Looks like we should be taking this seriously now? I wonder how it will play out. http://mobile.nytimes.com/blogs/kristof/2014/02/01/an-open-letter-from-dylan-farrow/
by Tom | Jan 30, 2014 | Reading
Horrifying dissection of a Daily Mail article on immigrants to the UK. Sounds more like storytelling than journalism. Great response, too and a much longer deconstruction if you can stomach it. 13 reasons why I am taking the Daily Mail to the Press Complaints...
by Tom | Jan 30, 2014 | Reading
A heartening thought from Bill Gates and some more detailed analysis of it from Quartz. We will have to find new ways of describing the world. I already struggle with what to call China. Maybe just a country rather than a developing, partly-developed, middle-income or...
by Tom | Jan 26, 2014 | View
Would be great for the HK summer…
