Q What do you think of the redevelopment plan for Peel and Graham streets?
The proposed redevelopment of the Graham and Peel streets area is cultural vandalism, and also shows yet again the cynical shabbiness with which the government treats us, the citizens.
Frankly, there are few parts of Hong Kong that have a truly distinctive and interesting character, yet the government seems determined to destroy those that remain, such as Graham and Peel streets, in favour of sanitised Ye Olde Kitsch.
Not content with shelling out millions to lure Disneyland, the government wants to turn the rest of Hong Kong into Disneyfied phoniness too.
According to media reports, the government's initiation of 'consultation' was, as so often, so low-key that hardly anyone knew about it until the day before it ended. What's more, it seems that even in the internet age, the only way people can consult the plans and proposals is by making a special trip to Jaffe Road during office hours.
Ye gods! Why do I get the impression that the government would like as few people as possible to find out about its plans and give their views? Possibly because that is the truth?