Sickening attack on anti-government protesters and bystanders at city subway station has led to questions as to why officers took so long to respond

On the night black-clad protesters took their fight to Beijing’s liaison office in the city, thugs in white T-shirts were attacking people at a subway station

When you excuse and justify violence and riots, those involved feel emboldened and vindicated.

Protesters are doing all they can to keep mainlanders away from city by targeting sites from Tsim Sha Tsui to Disneyland and even seedy streets of Yau Tsim Mong

An efficient civil service must step in to do work of non-functioning government and city has to join together to dig itself out of hole

Commission needs to look into sources of recent violence from all sides, identify problems and come up with solutions without laying blame

Apologists for violence at shopping centre in which officer’s finger was bitten off are now blaming everyone except the ‘barbarians’ who were behind it

Protesters have to realise they are becoming more violent, not the police.

Violent elements ready to fight police and destroy public property with well-honed tactics and organisation are undermining what started off as a perfectly legitimate and justified mass movement

Both Beijing and Ottawa are hoping Canadian court will release Sabrina Meng Wanzhou and unfreeze diplomatic relations, failure to do so will have painful repercussions

Media spotlight may have been on international appearances of pro-democracy pair, but more significant event appears to have taken place closer to home

The political fortunes of the opposition brightened when hundreds of thousands of people peacefully took to the streets, now they have dimmed

Political views of singers should not stop you from enjoying their music, and it’s never the case that one side is completely right and the other wrong

Local opposition figures may laugh off such claims, but that doesn’t make them untrue as two incidents from last month may well show

The British foreign secretary has been pounding his chest and threatening ‘serious consequences’ for China if it dares unleash repression on extradition bill protesters. This may make Hunt look more important than he is, but it will mean absolutely nothing here in Hong Kong.

Despite forcing the suspension of extradition bill, clueless political elders refused to tell those who protested they had won, leading to vandalism of legislature

Youngsters who attacked legislature were driven by a mob mentality and deserve punishment and criticism, not glorification

World was in awe when hundreds of thousands of people protested in city streets peacefully and with dignity, but a subset of violent individuals is now sending out a different message

While the extradition bill, now suspended indefinitely, and its related issues may be a cause worth fighting for, it is not worth dying for

Former high-flyers such as Carrie Lam and Li Ka-shing, who seemingly could do no wrong, have now overstayed their welcome

While it’s true that there is no one with enough substance and experience to be chief executive, having a harmless bureaucrat or a moderate in a caretaker role for the next three years may be a better option for all than having Lam stay on

Officers exercised extraordinary restraint when protesters besieged their headquarters, and those Western countries that criticise them should look at the behaviour of their own forces first

Mass rallies involving hundreds of thousands had a very specific target – the extradition bill – but the latest protests look increasingly aimless, self-indulgent and disruptive

Pro-government forces that supported the now suspended extradition bill are angry and showing their displeasure at the government of Carrie Lam as elections loom

By siding diplomatically with Washington, but also wanting to further Ottawa’s economic interests with China, Prime Minister Trudeau must tread carefully

If Beijing is trying to convince Taiwan of the viability of the ‘one country, two systems’ arrangement, we need to convince the central government it is worthwhile to keep it intact for Hong Kong

With the targeting of hospitals, police and their families, the city’s protest movement is in danger of moving from legitimate opposition to revenge

Suspension of the extradition bill has led to the city’s leader being sworn at by a pro-Beijing lawmaker, many of whom are now unelectable as elections near

Despite many calling for the chief executive and senior ministers to go in the wake of the extradition bill debacle, she is likely to remain until the end of her current term