According to Wikipedia, Hong Kong has 7 million citizens, 95% of whom are Chinese.

According to this BBC News report about Hong Kong’s Mid-Levels escalator system - the “longest outdoor covered escalator system in the world” - there’s not a single Chinese person who could talk about the system. The reporter’s Australian, who interviews another non ( Read more... )

Lookie here! (Thanks, @zsk!)

and she has revealed that on Boxing Day, it got 21,500 hits. Now if only I had 1p for everyone who clicked…
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Call me a hypochrondiac armageddonist but...

In real life: London Ambulance Service said last week was the busiest in its history.

In TV land, the BBC drama Survivors about the end of the world starts off with most of the country ill with a virulent cold...

and here I am, at work, my brain not having worked for at least a week...

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I give you this screen-grab without comment. Maybe just in case I get libelled. But this story might help.


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