The Finnish prime minister Sanna Marin made world headlines this week – not because of any ignominy or scandal, or any particular moral defect, but because she was found (gasp!) “partying” at a nightc ...More
EJ Insight2022-08-26
There is an exodus. People are leaving. We can wax lyrical all day long – “They’ll come back.”, “If we don’t get rid of the old, how would the new come in?” (a terribly instrumentalist and blasé state ...More
EJ Insight2022-08-19
It would be rather uncontroversial to suggest that loyalty is a virtue. It is, hopefully, equally uncontroversial to note that unquestioning, unyielding, and unconditional loyalty is a vice. Loyalty t ...More
EJ Insight2022-08-17
When speaking of poverty, we tend to focus on its debilitating and dehumanising nature. It hurts to be poor. It is expensive to be poor. It is de-dignifying to be forced to live under the stultifying ...More
EJ Insight2022-08-12
John Lee’s administration unveiled on Monday a series of measures designed to reopen Hong Kong to the world. As I have repeatedly written and called for previously – this is not only a sensible and hu ...More
EJ Insight2022-08-09
Life throws at you many opportunities. Opportunities to climb, to earn, to gain and learn. Opportunities to further one’s fledgling career, to preserve a crumbling legacy, or, indeed, to find what it ...More
EJ Insight2022-08-04
It’s so, so hot. That statement applies not only to Hong Kong, which has seen one of the hottest Julys on record – and that’s saying something. It is also true of UK – where talk of the weather is ubi ...More
EJ Insight2022-07-29
Hong Kong must reopen, promptly. Hong Kongers know this. Tell this to the thousands stranded abroad, keenly awaiting the next flight – and hotel slots – back to their hometown. Tell this to the many m ...More
EJ Insight2022-07-27
Over the past few months, I’ve had the pleasure of giving a few talks and addresses on the intersection of cryptocurrency and geopolitics – at Oxford, in Hong Kong (over zoom), and other platforms. As ...More
EJ Insight2022-07-20
And so – I made it! Managed to scramble (stumble) through the plethora of hurdles that stood between me and home – after flight cancellations, hotel cancellations, rebookings after a chase madder than ...More
EJ Insight2022-07-19
For the love of Hong Kong, for the love of the rest of the country, it is high time that we put an end, once and for all, the quarantine inanities that are effectively killing – if they haven’t alread ...More
EJ Insight2022-07-15
With BoJo’s resignation (finally! One would be forgiven for imagining BoJo to be as tenacious as Diana Rigg’s Olenna in Game of Thrones, or, as persistently irksome as the candidate Olenna disposed at ...More
EJ Insight2022-07-14
To begin with, it’s imperative that we differentiate between the following terms – the nation, and the state. The state denotes a geophysical fixture – an entity that is recognised by international la ...More
EJ Insight2022-07-04
I’ve been asked this question many a time – how do we keep faith? How do we remain hopeful? How can we see light at the end of a tunnel that repeatedly refuses to end? That’s the question of the centu ...More
EJ Insight2022-06-30
There has been a plethora of hot takes over the closure – and subsequent, more recent, sinking – of the Jumbo Floating Restaurant. The floating restaurant had once been Hong Kong’s hallmark tourist at ...More
EJ Insight2022-06-24
The recent assault on two women by a mob of men in Tangshan, sent ripples across the Chinese netisphere. Not only were many deeply repulsed by the wanton and cantankerous violence towards the women, t ...More
EJ Insight2022-06-15
I’ve held off from sharing my two cents of worth on the ongoing Depp-Heard saga – in part because I do not think I have anything unique to say, but also in part due to the messiness of the quagmire. T ...More
EJ Insight2022-06-14
Now, some posit that a necessary ingredient of a genuinely profound public servant – is their devotion to the people. In jurisdictions where the “people” are equated with the results of popular, major ...More
EJ Insight2022-06-09
In case you missed it – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson survived a vote of no confidence within his party (that is, an internal vote that is effectively an intra-party version of the national vot ...More
EJ Insight2022-06-08
Woke up last weekend (or the weekend before, really) to the fantastic news that Scott Morrison had been booted. With a sweeping Labour victory came the end to the shambolic Liberal-National coalition ...More
EJ Insight2022-05-30
