Many have asked me to pen a piece explaining what’s going on in Ukraine to a Hong Kong audience. I am no Ukraine expert, and I am certainly not Ukrainian/Russian – as such, I could only endeavour to d ...More
EJ Insight2022-03-02
Spare a thought. Spare a thought for the long queues of forlorn souls, lining up in solemn, groveling silence, as they trudge towards having their noses pricked and throats swabbed, in identification ...More
EJ Insight2022-02-25
There are few better things to do during a self-imposed retreat amidst a pandemic, than to re-watch old movies with nostalgia. So that’s exactly what I did, a process that allowed me to re-visit the c ...More
EJ Insight2022-02-17
The charlatan preaching from the pulpit of devout followers. The pseudointellectual massing followers through a popular podcast – or, indeed, YouTube channel. The buffoon projecting his insecurities t ...More
EJ Insight2022-02-16
Valentine’s Day is coming up. It’s the season of Love! The billboards blast, with the hyper-commercialised neon-lights trudging out the precursor to the manufactured consent: we’re told that Love is k ...More
EJ Insight2022-02-08
We’re in a COVID limbo. Before us is a fork – a fork that takes us down two paths. The first constitutes reopening Hong Kong to our very own country – to dissolve the quarantine and isolation requirem ...More
EJ Insight2022-02-07
You read this right. This is a philosophical exposition of the not-particularly-philosophical question of animal rights – more precisely, why do animals have rights. If you’re a fan of formal philosop ...More
EJ Insight2022-01-27
We need an exit strategy. Several key propositions undergirding this statement – and, indeed, largely informed by recent events. The first, is the hyper-contagiousness of the Omicron (both B.1 and B.2 ...More
EJ Insight2022-01-25
A Prime Minister knee-deep in scandal. A few weeks after I’d penned a review of Owen Jones’ “The Establishment” for this very paper, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson finds himself in hot water – f ...More
EJ Insight2022-01-20
China has an ageing population problem. This proposition requires some unpacking – more precisely, there are two sub-propositions to consider: The first, is that China’s population is “ageing” – measu ...More
EJ Insight2022-01-18
It is sweet and fitting to die for one’s country. This is a lie – rammed down our clogged throats from a young age, inculcated in us through the most pious means of indoctrination. To serve one’s coun ...More
EJ Insight2022-01-13
Yao Pan Ma died of his injuries on December 31. The 61-year-old man was brutally assaulted in Harlem last year. He was kicked to the ground and left debilitated by Jarrod Powell. This was a hate crime ...More
EJ Insight2022-01-11
We all saw it coming – the emergence of communal transmission of the highly contagious omicron variant. For a vast majority of the past two years, Hong Kong has remained – through its rigorous, at tim ...More
EJ Insight2022-01-05
The asteroid that’s heading for Earth in Don’t Look Up; the raging COVID-19 pandemic and omicron variant; the collapse of our environment under the weight of climate change; the ever-encroaching threa ...More
EJ Insight2022-01-03
With all due respect, this has been another annus horribilis. Arguably a year that is – at its core – far worse as compared with even 2020. The COVID-19 pandemic persisted. More have perished this yea ...More
EJ Insight2021-12-29
Tokyo recently declared that it would proceed with advancing the recognition of same-sex partnerships – a pivotal follow-up to the March ruling that determined that the lack of legal recognition of sa ...More
EJ Insight2021-12-21
If the news from Britain is anything to go by, the upcoming winter for the United Kingdom is likely to be a bleak, miserable, and stiff one. From potentially exponential increases in the volume of omi ...More
EJ Insight2021-12-20
When watching gaffe after gaffe from Boris “Peppa Pig World; A COVID-Free Christmas is on its way” Johnson, one can’t help but think – how does he get away with it? More broadly, how does the Establis ...More
EJ Insight2021-12-13
It’s usually rather hard to put pen to paper on a stranger. It’s even harder to articulate clearly one’s thoughts on a stranger who had passed before one has come of age. Candle in the wind – Elton Jo ...More
EJ Insight2021-12-08
The writing had always been on the wall. We spend decades in our lifetimes trying to improve the state of technology, to break new frontiers, to devise solutions to mankind’s biggest worries and great ...More
EJ Insight2021-12-07
