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Kenny Hodgart

Kenny Hodgart

Formerly a staff journalist at SCMP, Kenny Hodgart has lived in Hong Kong since 2011. He comes from Scotland, which remains part of the United Kingdom, but his views are almost exclusively his own. He suffers from status anxiety more than some but less than others.
Formerly a staff journalist at SCMP, Kenny Hodgart has lived in Hong Kong since 2011. He comes from Scotland, which remains part of the United Kingdom, but his views are almost exclusively his own. He suffers from status anxiety more than some but less than others.

Off Centre | Why it’s always rush hour in Hong Kong

Hong Kong is a city in a constant hurry, as everything is time lost or gained and results must be instant. Photo: AFP

Off Centre | Who to snog, marry and avoid at the G20 – or, the essential guide to international relations

Forget small talk; definitely avoid Russian President Vladimir Putin. Photo: EPA

Off Centre | Confused by Hong Kong politics? Here’s all you need to know, right down to the basics

Dusk descends on Hong Kong’s Golden Bauhinia Square. Photo: Nora Tam

Off Centre | Madman or extremist? When innocents die, there are no clear distinctions

Tears flow as floral tributes are placed near the Olympia shopping centre in Munich where a lone gunman killed nine, including children, on July 22. Photo: AP
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Brexit may represent the final rejection of Tony Blair’s legacy of globalisation

A bus with an advertisement for a film about Tony Blair passes the Houses of Parliament in London. Photo: AFP

Just Saying | A toast to Xi Jinping’s crackdown on China’s ingrained drinking culture

A man takes a bottle of mao-tai liquor from a supermarket shelf in Beijing. Photo: Xinhua

Off Centre | If Britain does leave the EU, it will be a mess of David Cameron’s own making

British Prime Minister David Cameron delivers a speech to supporters of the Remain campaign in Witney, Oxfordshire, last month. Photo: EPA

Off Centre | Wish you weren’t here: an end to mass tourism and the age of democratic travel?

A Chinese tourist poses for a photo with a fisherman in Sri Lanka. Photo: Xinhua

Very rude? On the contrary, the Queen was probably just trying to be polite

If Queen Elizabeth felt that Chinese officials had at various turns been “very rude”, she almost certainly had good reason for it. Photo: EPA

Off Centre | Stop telling me women run things better than men

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff signs the Paris climate agreement at the United Nations headquarters in New York. Photo: Xinhua

Off Centre | Tokyo’s Olympic organisers are smarter than the PR hustlers think

The Toyko 2020 Olympics committee unveils the four designs shortlisted to become the event’s official logo. Photo: AP

Off Centre | AI is coming, are we training our students for a world where robots work for free?

POMONA, CA - JUNE 06: Children interact with Aldebaran's Pepper robot during the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Robotics Challenge Expo at the Fairplex June 6, 2015 in Pomona, California. Organized by DARPA, the Pentagon's science research group, 24 teams from aorund the world are competing for $3.5 million in prize money that will be awarded to the robots that best respond to natural and man-made disasters. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images/AFP == FOR NEWSPAPERS, INTERNET, TELCOS & TELEVISION USE ONLY ==

Off Centre | What’s really driving China’s ambition to buy out Hollywood and win the World Cup?

Ip Man 3 stars Mike Tyson and Donnie Yen at the opening ceremony of the Shanghai International Film Festival in 2015. The film’s Chinese distributor has since had its licence suspended for making up thousands of screenings in a huge box office fraud. Photo: AFP

Off Centre | Ugly populism is not an argument against democracy – in America or Hong Kong

US Presidential candidate Donald Trump Photo: Reuters

Off Centre | I read the newspaper so you don’t have to, and it’s full of bad news

The newspaper is full of doom and gloom, says Kenny Hodgart. Photo: SCMP Pictures

Off Centre | All that glitters is not a golden era for Sino-British relations as nuclear plant stalls

Britain’s Sellafield nuclear power plant. The UK and China are planning on building at least two more nuclear plants in the future. Photo: Reuters

Off Centre | Note to Henry Tang: Hongkongers have no interest in increasing mainland tourist numbers

(151002) -- BEIJING, Oct. 2, 2015 (Xinhua) -- Tourists cram onto the Great Wall in Beijing, capital of China, Oct. 2, 2015, the second day of the National Day holidays. (Xinhua/Xing Guangli)(wyo)

Off Centre | Five of the best tales of non-Chinese censorship

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Off Centre | Timidity over free speech is a gift to political authoritarians

A pro-democracy protester holds a portrait of Chinese human rights lawyer Pu Zhiqiang, demanding his release during a demonstration, outside the Chinese liaison office in Hong Kong, China December 15, 2015. REUTERS/Tyrone Siu

Off Centre | Hong Kong may be a little insecure, but it's no 'slave'

With a history as a British colony that roots itself deep in Hongkongers' hearts, the city prides itself in being a westernized city within Asia. Photo: Edmond So

Scotland triads under the scanner as new probe launched into Chinese businessman's murder

Scotland triads under the scanner as new probe launched into Chinese businessman's murder

Reports last month of a new probe into the 30-year-old unsolved murder of a Chinese businessman in Glasgow brought back memories of a bygone age.

Off Centre | Mapping Ai Weiwei: Crowds flock for glimpse of artist's 'readymade' at London retrospective

Ai Weiwei. Photo: SCMP Pictures

Off Centre | 7 things that (probably) won’t happen during Xi Jinping’s state visit to Britain

Xi Jinping speaks as he meets with the press at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, in this November 15, 2012 file photo. To match Special Report CHINA-SOFTPOWER/RIGHTS REUTERS/Carlos Barria/Files

Off Centre | Whisky vs Pocari Sweat: Scots and Japanese are locked in a new space race

An advertising poster of Pocari Sweat on the moon. The drink' manufacturer's owner, Otsuka, will send a rocket to the moon with a capsule containing Pocari Sweat in powder form. Photo: SCMP Pictures

Off Centre | The good, the bad, the wacky of China: in praise of the Post's ‘Around the Nation’ news

Chinese villager Zheng Hongkang, a keen amateur painter, adds a dash of colour to his life-sized clay model of President Xi Jinping - one of many items that appeared in SCMP's Around the Nation. Photo: Dfic.cn

Off Centre | Hogging an industry: Chinese conglomerate’s pork prerogative gets under noses of poor Americans

Larry Pope, president and chief executive officer of Smithfield Foods, poses with Wan Long, chairman and chief executive officer of pork conglomerate WH Group in Hong Kong. Photo: David Wong

Off Centre | Zero-sum game: how the positivity industry prefers us to worry

This Ever Learning poster advertising tutoring for kindergarten interviews went viral on social media. It reads: "You don't like competition? But competition will find you!"

Off Centre | Overheard at the Foreign Correspondents' Club: A handful of vignettes from Hong Kong's media hangout

Hong Kong's Foreign Correspondents' Club in Central. Photo: AFP

Off Centre | If Scotland 'could' make it on her own, what about Hong Kong?

Yes and No voters argue in the run-up to the referendum on Scottish independence last September. Scotland and Hong Kong aren’t closely comparable, but both have confronted issues about political rule. Photo: Reuters

Off Centre | More to life than money: the gospel according to the famous Mr Magic Miracles, mover and healer

The magic touch: Patrick Yan Kin-lam, aka Mr Magic Miracles, not only helps the city's denizens move house, but also soothes aches and pains when asked. Photo: Kenny Hodgart
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