There's the barrel; there are the fish
Fire! I was in one of those tacky little market shops in Chengdu yesterday where I saw a card which said “Thinking for you”. Must be the one the imperial government sends out at Christmas. Yeah, I know. Too easy to take a swipe at this one. I had no idea Steve Jobs had died. Millions in the Empire will be mourning his passing as the purveyor of modern-day shiny beads, which distracted so many of the nation’s youths. The government is probably more upset than anyone else. Why think about how rotten the system is when you can have a nice, shiny iPad? The other news item which I missed because I was away was the quashing of the convictions of Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito for the murder of Meredith Kerchner. I’ve been sceptical about the pair’s claims of innocence, but I’m also not missing the point that there does seem to have been sufficient uncertainty to undermine the certainty of the original conviction. I don’t like the sound of Knox’s reception back in the ...