Elections are prime time for alternative facts
Your columnist Mike Rowse is always worth reading, and usually eminently sensible and practical.
It is precisely during elections that candidates and their supporters throw out all sorts of half-truths and what have now become known as alternative facts. This is unfortunately true of both sides of the debate.
What is really needed is for a proper study of the Basic Law in circumstances when a rational approach can be taken.
Perhaps those who advocate the study of the Basic Law in schools are right. I would say that a further study of it at universities as part of general studies, as well as, dare I say it, Mandarin, could also be of benefit to the younger generation.
David Gwilt, emeritus professor, Chinese University of Hong Kong