Lai See | One rule for the students, another rule for the rich

So let's get this straight. If you obstruct the road as the occupiers have been doing for the past month or so, then that's illegal and subverts the rule of law, so our leaders tell us. But if we have a large Rolls-Royce and park it on the pavement, as our picture taken yesterday shows, that is evidently OK.

We have noted before that while areas of Central have been closed off in recent weeks, this appears to have restricted the area available for illegal parking, so cars have taken to parking on the pavement outside the former Central Government Offices on Lower Albert Road.

We have seen police spokesmen on television pontificating about "the rule of law". One of them was heard to say that he was concerned about the "law-breaking tendency" of the protests, adding that no one can be above the law. The rejoinder to this is evidently, you can be above it if you have a big Rolls-Royce. We wonder who it could belong to?

Martin Wheatley, erstwhile chief executive of the Securities and Futures Commission who now heads Britain's Financial Conduct Authority, has been baring his soul to the Financial Times.